Rube Goldberg Code

[Yamaeda]

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@BowenM wrote:

I just ran in to this gem while going through someone else's source code...  I actually had to drop probes before I realized what he was doing with all of the multiplication.

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Wow! Just ... Wow!

I found something even bigger that after some analysis (and referring to the filename) proved to be a HexString to number. That could be replaced with 2 or three blocks, if memory serves. 🙂

/Y

[RavensFan]

The typical Select Function to choose True vs. False,  or False vs. True.

But also timeout event structures that only execute once.  (zero vs. infinite timeout).  And 1 execution while loops that are based on an odd comparison of an inner For loop and its auto-indexed array of iteration values compared to an array of constants.

Seen here

[altenbach]

What's the opposite of Rube Goldberg? A post that is reduced to a few unreadable pixels!

(seen here)

 

[billko]

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@altenbach wrote:

What's the opposite of Rube Goldberg? A post that is reduced to a few unreadable pixels!

(seen here)

 

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1/rube

[bsvare]

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@altenbach wrote:

What's the opposite of Rube Goldberg? A post that is reduced to a few unreadable pixels!

(seen here)

 

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To be fair, it probably was done that way to be nice to the people who skim the thread. It least NI always stores the original size: For example the links to the pictures show:

/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/181928i28E347BD044A009D/image-size/small?v=lz-1&px=200

/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/181929iDD5D2EEB10B9FB79/image-size/small?v=lz-1&px=200

/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/181931i35E41C43A1B8B755/image-size/small?v=lz-1&px=200

You can easily cut the /image-size/ part to the end off and get the full size of each

/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/181928i28E347BD044A009D

/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/181929iDD5D2EEB10B9FB79

/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/181931i35E41C43A1B8B755

[Jacobson-ni]

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@bsvare wrote:

You can easily cut the /image-size/ part to the end off and get the full size of each

/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/181928i28E347BD044A009D

/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/181929iDD5D2EEB10B9FB79

/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/181931i35E41C43A1B8B755

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That's really cool, I had no idea that you could do that.

[altenbach]

Typically, we can right-click an image...open image in new tab, and then easily zoom there. In this case, the "200" is retained and we need to edit the URL in the new tab to see the full size. That seems to be a browser or forum flaw. You would think that opening an image in a new tab or window should strip the formatting.

At least the forum should turn each picture into a link and show it full size when clicked (like over in the community). I would consider the current behavior a bug.

[elset191]

I happened upon this beauty today.  I think I've seen a similar one in this thread.

[altenbach]

(seen here)

Some ways to turn a path into an array of strings. Arguably some are simpler and more universal than others. :D)

[PeterFoerster]

With the permission of my intern: What do you do if you write a nice QMH program and then move it to RT, where there are no events? Of course: Generate User Events, every 200 ms or when the RIO gets around to it...

So how do we improve on that? Easy: We replace the data type of the User Event with Array, to make it more scalable.

Or we could get rid of the event structure altogether and queue in the top loop since the process is not time critical at all...