[HN Gopher] Anatomy of Oscillation
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       Anatomy of Oscillation
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-02-10 20:58 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | svilen_dobrev wrote:
       | hysteresis (sp.?) is usual thing in theory of automation, and
       | tricky to walkaround right.
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       | another such ping-pong is languages: non-typed, all typed, non-
       | typed, all typed (on top of non-typed)..
        
       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | Right now I'm fixing some accessibility issues involving some
       | code where people on my team (including myself) have been making
       | changes to the code without a complete understanding of how
       | things are supposed to work.
       | 
       | I don't want to keep pushing a bubble around under the rug so
       | I've done some small refactorings (extract a chunk of <svg> into
       | <SvgLogo>) and I'm now writing a huge comment that explains the
       | status quo. I'm sure there are going to be some more refactorings
       | in the same code and I expect to change the comment accordingly.
       | 
       | Frequently comments are apologies and are in themselves a bad
       | smell.
        
       | robotguy wrote:
       | Reminded me of Control Systems classes back in my EE days. Just
       | in case anyone else wants to nerd it up, here's the nostalgia-
       | induced Wikipedia rabbit hole I went down:
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping#Oscillation_cases
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(signal)
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_system
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang%E2%80%93bang_control
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_(engineering)
        
       | ttoinou wrote:
       | Are we supposed to know what a dot on the arrow means ?
        
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