Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week?
by hermitdev on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:48PM
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> ...as a side note, I was wrong, door handles were invented first. It's because the mechanism is easer and relies on gravity, instead of a mechanism doing it for you.
I was about to comment on this, having grown up in a house with latches that relied upon gravity to do their work. I currently live in a home which has handles on most of the doors, including the exterior doors. It's actually problematic for us because activating the handle also unlocks the deadbolt from the inside. Our dog has figured out how to open the handles, but he can't work a door knob. We rely upon a baby gate to keep him upstairs and away from the exterior door he can operate. He could easily jump the gate if he so desired (he's done it a few times without thinking while chasing one of our cats).
Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week?
by souprock on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:34PM
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I also have contemplated doorknobs. I hate that the choice is between slippery round ones and hook-like ones. I'd like a slightly rounded dodecahedron, icosahedron, or 5 to 12 sided prism.
Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week?
by vizzier on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:41PM
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I remember growing up in the UK having a few similar to this: https://www.wayfair.ca/Nostalgic-Warehouse--Clear-Crystal-Wa... if thats what you mean?
Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week?
by Cerium on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:02PM
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My grandparents house had those. They would loosen if turned the wrong way - and half the family is left handed! The right handers were always complaining that the doorknob was loose.
Have you tried crystal door knobs (or glass ones made to look like crystal)? They may have the shape you're looking for
Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week?
by slingnow on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:51PM
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What would drive you to the conclusion that a complex, specialized mechanism was developed before literally the simplest solution anyone could imagine (a stick you pull on)?
Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week?
by 100011_100001 on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:40PM
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Holding a cake.
Me: brings out birthday cake, we sing happy birthday to my son
Wife: What are you thinking about?
Me: That doorknobs probably got invented before door handles.
Wife: ...
Then I have to explain that I was thinking about the kitchen door and the dining room, and how we removed it when we first moved in, and how I was holding the cake with both hands and then thought about the door because it would have been annoying to deal with a door knob while holding a cake, that lead me to think how our house uses doorknobs only, and it's part of the problem of opening doors...and yeah.
...as a side note, I was wrong, door handles were invented first. It's because the mechanism is easer and relies on gravity, instead of a mechanism doing it for you.