I try to optimize my microwave button pushing too. I also have a +30 seconds button, so for 1:30 I can hit "1,3,0,Start" or "+30" three times and save a press!

Why does your microwave compare numbers?

It doesn’t compare them, it just counts down.

If I enter 1-3-0-start, I get 90 seconds of cooking. If I enter 9-9-start, I get 99 seconds of cooking, so in that sense, 99 > 130.

If I want about 90 seconds, I’ll use 88 as it’s faster to enter (fewer finger movements).

I've done the same thing for decades! Soul mates?

You might like this one as well.

Load soap into the dishwasher after emptying rather than after loading. If the soap dispenser is closed, the dishes are dirty.

My rule is that loading the dishwasher means that one loads all the available dishes, and runs it, even if it's only x% full. We use the (large) sink as an input buffer.

If the dishwasher has dishes in it and it's not running, they're clean.

This is exactly our algorithm as all. I can't really imagine flipping it the other way, since leaving dirty dishes in a dishwasher will just let them completely dry out, making it more likely they won't get fully clean when the cycle is eventually run.

Rinse until visually clean, then put in dishwasher.

This doubles the time required to do the dishes, defeating much of the purpose of the dishwasher.

Idk, to me it's not about time but effort. Rinsing is just pleasant.

That’s not a zero-copy algorithm. The algorithm with using the soap dispenser being closed as a flag is zero-copy.

I want to have two dishwashers. One with the dirty dishes and one with the clean dishes. So you never have to put the dishes away. They go from the clean dishwasher to the table to the dirty one. And then flip them.

This idea comes up periodically on Reddit. [0] has a few posts from people who have installed them, mostly for bachelors.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/ayr9c/when_im_rich_im...

There’s a community near here with a high fraction of Orthodox Jews. One condo I toured in my 20s had two dishwashers and without thinking about why they did it, I commented how I thought that was awesome that you’d never need to put dishes away. (They of course installed two dishwashers for orthodox separation of dishes from each other.)

Blasphemy! I do the inverse. You're wrong. /s

insert code flame war here

Vi Hart - "How to Microwave Gracefully"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9E0zSpULFY

Not the OP, but I have the same problem. For some reason that escapes me, pressing the “10 sec” button 7 times produces 00 70 instead of 01 10. If you then press the “1 min” button you get 01 70

Most microwaves (in the USA) do this, at least in my experience.

They treat the ":" like a sum of two sexagesimal numbers, rather than a sexagesimal digit separator.

How else would you prove it's turing complete and can run Doom?