Rube Goldberg Code

[User002]

I had this one 

staring me in the face most of today before I finally realized what it was...

Spoiler

 -joeorbob

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@User002 wrote:

I had this one 

staring me in the face most of today before I finally realized what it was...

Spoiler

 -joeorbob

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Well...

Sometimes code like that is convenient during testing. If you're not sure the First Call does the job, the Boolean is a quick way to test by switching between "always true" and "first time true".

I'd at least make it a control. Then I can set it to true while running, and it will reset to false next time I load the code. So if I forget to remove it, at least it won't do anything.

Of course it should be removed after testing. But I feel this could be a "left over from testing" instead of "Rube Goldberg". 

[altenbach]

I am not going to repeat the entire discussion here, but the collective efforts of a few community members was able to iteratively speed this code up ~30000x (from 5 minute to a few ms) and literally reduce it to the size of a postage stamp. 😄

[altenbach]

To add a single point to a chart, we apparently need to (1) take a subset containing one element, then (2) turn it into a 2D array with one element, before (3) feeding it to the chart. Repeat for four other charts. (Seen here).

I can think of something slightly simpler. 😄

[altenbach]

(seen here)

My gut feeling is that this can be slightly simplified, but I cannot find a replacement. Which palette contains a wire?

[VinnyAstro]

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@altenbach wrote:

(seen here)

My gut feeling is that this can be slightly simplified, but I cannot find a replacement. Which palette contains a wire?

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I took the liberty to try and simplify it a bit 😄

[altenbach]

Most are familiar how to flip a boolean, but have you ever tried the double-back-flip-triple-axel-boolean operation?

(seen here)

[mcduff]

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@altenbach wrote:

Most are familiar how to flip a boolean, but have you ever tried the double-back-flip-triple-axel-boolean operation?

(seen here)

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I believe it is called a triple lindy.

mcduff

[altenbach]

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@mcduff wrote:
I believe it is called a triple lindy.

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Ha! You are right! Totally forgot about this one. 🙂

[Hooovahh]

It took me far too long to realize this was a parody.