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My two light switches got stuck in an infinite echo loop

https://docodethatmatters.com/the-infinite-echo-state-mirror-bug/
9•skittleson•3d ago

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windows_hater_7•45m ago
What’s the purpose of creating completely LLM generated blog posts? There’s not even an attempt to make it seem human. I thought the whole purpose of blogs was to share an individual perspective. I’m not trying to be a hater; I’m just genuinely wondering.
tzs•4m ago
A similar effect with human controlled switches happened once, according to a story I heard about a prank some people pulled on a student a few years earlier in the house I lived in as an undergraduate at Caltech.

The target of the prank lived in a room that had a window overlooking a courtyard. His room was next to a bathroom that also had a window overlooking the courtyard.

One day when they knew he would be out late, and go straight to bed when he got back, the pranksters rewired his light switch and the bathroom light switch so each switched controlled both his room lights and the bathroom lights.

When he got home and went to bed, the pranksters observed both windows from the courtyard. Eventually someone had to use the bathroom, turning on the light.

That woke up the sleeping guy, and they heard him swear, and could see him go turn off the light and head back to bed.

Then they heard swearing from the guy who was now sitting on the toilet in a dark bathroom. He got up and turned the bathroom lights back.

More swearing from the guy trying to sleep, and the lights went off. Angrier swearing from the bathroom and the lights went back on.

It went back and forth like this for a bit, with the interval between flips shrinking until both guys were standing at the light switches flipping them.

Around the same time the both went into the hallway to see if they could find out if anyone else was having light trouble and figured out what was going on.

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