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The Iroquois Theatre fire occurred on December 30, 1903, at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was the deadliest theater fire and the deadliest single-building fire in U.S. history, resulting in at least 602 deaths.

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By this time, many of the patrons on all levels were attempting to flee the theater. Some had found the fire exits hidden behind draperies on the north side of the building, but found that they could not open the unfamiliar bascule locks. Bar owner Frank Houseman, a former baseball player with the Chicago Colts, defied an usher who refused to open a door. He was able to open the door because his ice box at home had a similar lock.

Perestroika posted:

A while back I got myself a fancy daylight alarm clock to make waking up in the winter darkness a bit nicer. And while it generally works, the button layout is just bonkers. It's got some touch at the front and four tactile buttons on top, and absolutely no rhyme or reason how they're ordered or function. The buttons for snooze, disabling the alarm, and changing the light are all touch-based, so very much not ideal to operate in the morning when you're hardly awake yet and want to avoid accidentally hitting the wrong one. Three out of the four tactile buttons are for stuff you only ever use once like setting the alarm tone and time display type, but the fourth one sets the time display brightness, which is something I do every single day. Setting the time is done by a short button press on the respective button, but setting the alarm time is done by a long button hold, so it's not even consistent in that regard.

Last but certainly not least are the light controls. It offers both daylight and coloured light modes, and the only way to control that is to cycle between light off -> daylight -> coloured light, with a separate control for the specific colour you want to see for the latter. So every single morning it wakes me up by automatically activating the daylight mode and the only way to then shut it off is to cycle through coloured light first (and get a faceful of maximum brightness green light first thing in the morning).

They're all minor issues, but it's really apparent that absolutely nobody involved in the design ever considered how it would be typically used and how to minimize necessary button presses during regular use.

Blow posted:

My LG microwave oven.

It seems like the only time you can change the time on the clock is to turn it off and back on at the outlet. The clock then blinks and is fairly easy to change. The problem being the microwave is set in a recess about head high and the only way to access the power outlet is to get one person to pull the microwave out and awkwardly hold it at chest height while a second person turns the power off/on.

Maybe there's a combination of buttons to press? Dunno. I just know it's a huge pain in the arse every time there's a blackout or daylight savings kicks in.

I don't have a manual for it. Have tried to no avail, but the model number is on the back and would require the same process to see what it is.

CJacobs posted:

My new router has one light, just the one. This single light changes color and flashing pattern based on the status of the connection. First of all it can only show one status at a time which is terrible ui especially if multiple things are wrong, but anyway. If the connection is broken, it just turns a flat solid red, no matter which link in the chain is broken. So when my internet goes out, I can no longer look at my router to find out why and if it's something I can fix by unplugging it at the modem, restarting just the router, restarting my PC, or if it's an ISP issue and there's nothing I can do. Thanks guys, these things had a whole row of tiny lights for a reason.

wa27 posted:

Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:

doors in the op remind me of the iroquois theater fire, still the deadliest building fire in american history, lead to a massive set of reforms regarding fire safety

the post-fire investigation revealed just an entire long list of things that could and should be enforced to improve survivability in the event of a fire. from emergency exits, to signage, to staff fire drills and evacuation plans, to alarms and notification systems - everything. one of the problems was that the doors were operated by this kind of lock, uncommon in america



this is one of the reasons emergency exit doors are standardized with a huge bar you can just slam into when opening the door

Platystemon posted:

Isn’t this like how every shipping container and cargo trailer in the world opens or would I be dead in the theatre?

CJacobs posted:

My new router has one light, just the one. This single light changes color and flashing pattern based on the status of the connection. First of all it can only show one status at a time which is terrible ui especially if multiple things are wrong, but anyway. If the connection is broken, it just turns a flat solid red, no matter which link in the chain is broken. So when my internet goes out, I can no longer look at my router to find out why and if it's something I can fix by unplugging it at the modem, restarting just the router, restarting my PC, or if it's an ISP issue and there's nothing I can do. Thanks guys, these things had a whole row of tiny lights for a reason.

https://eero.com/

Was given a bunch of these by my isp with no manual. Why's the internet not working? It's a mystery!

Parahexavoctal posted:

If all you need to do is reset the power supply... do you have access to a circuit breaker panel?

Blue Footed Booby posted:

In the current Animal Crossing's multi player, it will block new arrivals to the town if anyone has a menu open. During arrival, it takes control from all the players to show a little cutscene. If the town player limit is too high it becomes basically unplayable due to these cutscenes.

HaB posted:

an HOUR to get 6 people on my island. An hour for 6 people to all join a multiplayer game, in TYOOL 2021.

Just a mind-bogglingly bad, crazy "attempt" at "multiplayer".

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

I know there must be some very fun and rewarding things in this game that make it worth it for you but this whole post reads like you have to play it as a job, like you're complaining about the database software your job makes you use

Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:

yeah, this is a pretty good way to secure doors that you want to generally stay closed, on things like freight containers and storage lockers

fire exits, however,

HaB posted:

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Blue Footed Booby posted:

There has to be some kind of story, like the CEO randomly demanded that it have multiplayer most of the way through development. It's just not possible to set out to make a multiplayer game and duck up that bad while also producing functioning single player. Or maybe they tried to handle it with an all fresh grads team and no oversight. There HAS to be an explanation.

Snake Maze posted:

It really just boils down to: The game is designed around multiplayer being something you do for a while with your small group of personal friends or family, and breaks down when internet communities try to treat it like an mmo.

Snake Maze posted:

It really just boils down to: The game is designed around multiplayer being something you do for a while with your small group of personal friends or family, and breaks down when internet communities try to treat it like an mmo.

Snake Maze posted:

It really just boils down to: The game is designed around multiplayer being something you do for a while with your small group of personal friends or family, and breaks down when internet communities try to treat it like an mmo.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Lol no this is not the problem. The problem is likely that the entire game is top to bottom not engineered for multiplayer at all. When you know you're going to have it you tend to use a server-client architecture even for the single player. That way other players joining is the exact same process as the first player joining. It's been a solved problem since the mid 90s, at least for the player counts the game supports.

The question is whether they had multiplayer imposed on them at the last minute, or somehow put together a team with less understanding of how to do it than the smash bros people. Either option speaks to something extremely strange going on with management.

MrQwerty posted:

my Ersa wave machine is 20 years old and runs a very specific computer that requires the use of very specific software, because industrial equipment (especially German industrial equipment).

Ersa's control software for that machine is, basically, still ported from Windows 95, visually and functionally. It runs a copy of WinXP that has been deactivated for years. It takes 3-5 seconds to respond to clicking on buttons.

Germans make the most unintuitive poo poo in the world regarding software.

Lincoln posted:

MORE LIKE NINTENDON'T AMIRITE

Blue Footed Booby posted:

You've gotta start twiddling the volume knob before you need the extra power, to give the turbo time to spool up.

NmareBfly posted:

This isn't a fix to the LED issue but if you have an ISP provided eero you should be able to get the eero app on your phone to manage it. Yes, there are a ton of reasons why you might not want to do this, I'm just saying. As far as the apps for these things go, it's pretty functional. Source: am an ISP tech that uses eeros

To contribute, I know there are much MUCH worse industrial / enterprise backend systems out there but the worst thing I have to interact with occasionally is the copper-circuit order entry system for Centurylink / Lumen, EASE. Look at this garbo:



there are several tabs of this, in a window that you cannot resize. Some of the fields have tooltips.

It's also that perfect mix where since I only have to mess with it like once every few weeks there's no possible way I'll ever gain an intuitive grasp of what the gently caress all these acronyms are. Putting in a 'please turn off this DSL' can take half an hour if it doesn't like the address for some godforsaken reason.