@jgeorge following because I work at IBM and we have...

@jgeorge following because I work at IBM and we have an internal IBM history community that loves unpacking where these weird objects came from. Please share more soon!

Like 1 August at 18:04 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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Benjohn

@mekki @jgeorge 🤔 how random?! … This almost seems useful as a way to be reminded to check a thing now and then (stir the onions). Or perhaps useful for performing random sampling?

1 August at 19:12 | Open on todon.nl

jgeorge

@benjohn @mekki Your guess is as good as mine or anyone else's. Random sampling is a good idea. My thinking would be more of a "hyper focus interruptor" to keep from going off into the weeds on a problem, but then again I have a problem with hyperfocus so that would be MY use case for something like this.

1 August at 19:50 | Open on oldbytes.space

Benjohn

@jgeorge @mekki that’s a really neat use, and makes me think of pomodoro technique.

I was just trying to think of a UI to control it! If it was Poison noise, you could control the expected events per hour, say.

2 August at 4:41 | Open on todon.nl

jgeorge

@mekki ...you do know that the majority of my hobbies involve restoring and documenting old IBM midrange systems, right?

OH HELLO NEW BEST FRIEND

1 August at 19:42 | Open on oldbytes.space

Mekki

@jgeorge <Waves hello> You can reach me via email if you wish too: mekkiATibm.com

2 August at 16:57 | Open on mastodon.social

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