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How much of this is specific to control loops that execute at 60hz?
When I first heard the maxim that an intelligent person should be able to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time, I was naive to think it meant weighing them for pros and cons. Over time I realized that it means balancing contradictory actions, and the main purpose of experience is knowing when to apply each. Concretely related to the topic, I've often found myself inlining short pieces of one-time code that mad…
When I first heard the maxim that an intelligent person should be able to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time, I was naive to think it meant weighing them for pros and cons. Over time I realized that it means balancing contradictory actions, and the main purpose of experience is knowing when to apply each. Concretely related to the topic, I've often found myself inlining short pieces of one-time code that mad…
That's exactly what I try to do. I think it's an unpopular opinion though, because there are no strict rules that can be applied, unlike with pure ideologies. You have to go by feel and make continuous adjustments, and there's no way to know if you did the right thing or not, because not only do different human minds have different limits, but different challenges don't tax every human mind to the same proportional e…
The rules are there for a reason. The tricky part is making sure you’re applying them for that reason.
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That's exactly what I try to do. I think it's an unpopular opinion though, because there are no strict rules that can be applied, unlike with pure ideologies. You have to go by feel and make continuous adjustments, and there's no way to know if you did the right thing or not, because not only do different human minds have different limits, but different challenges don't tax every human mind to the same proportional e…
> there are no strict rules that can be applied The rules are there for a reason. The tricky part is making sure you’re applying them for that reason.
When I first heard the maxim that an intelligent person should be able to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time, I was naive to think it meant weighing them for pros and cons. Over time I realized that it means balancing contradictory actions, and the main purpose of experience is knowing when to apply each. Concretely related to the topic, I've often found myself inlining short pieces of one-time code that mad…
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When I first heard the maxim that an intelligent person should be able to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time, I was naive to think it meant weighing them for pros and cons. Over time I realized that it means balancing contradictory actions, and the main purpose of experience is knowing when to apply each. Concretely related to the topic, I've often found myself inlining short pieces of one-time code that mad…
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Any use by ideological groups twists the purpose of the phrase on its head. The quote encourages thinking and consideration. You'd have to turn off your brain for this to have the opposite effect.
> Inlining functions also has the benefit of not making it possible to call the function from other places. I’ve really gone to town with this in Python. def parse_news_email(…): def parse_link(…): … def parse_subjet(…): … … If you are careful, you can rely on the outer function’s variables being available inside the inner functions as well. Something like a logger or a db connection can be passed in once and then us…
When I first heard the maxim that an intelligent person should be able to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time, I was naive to think it meant weighing them for pros and cons. Over time I realized that it means balancing contradictory actions, and the main purpose of experience is knowing when to apply each. Concretely related to the topic, I've often found myself inlining short pieces of one-time code that mad…
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I wish languages had the following: let x = block { … return 5 } // x == 5 And the way to mark copypaste, e.g. common foo { asdf(qwerty(i+j)); printf(“%p”, write)); bar(); } …(repeats verbatim 20 times)… … common foo { asdf(qwerty(i+k)); printf(“%d”, (int)write); // cast to int bar(); } … And then you could `mycc diff-common foo` and see: : : common : : common … : : @@…@@ -asdf(qwerty(i+j)); +asdf(qwerty(i+k)); @@…@@…
In C++ it's an idiom to use immediately invoked lambdas: auto x = []{ /*...*/ return 5; }(); There is/was an attempt to introduce a more of a first-class language construct for such immediate "block expressions": https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p28... I'm not convinced that automatic checking of copy-paste errors of such blocks make much sense though. At least I think the false positive rate…
They're also used extensively in the Linux kernel, mostly to implement macros: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atorvalds%2Flinux%20%22(%7...