there is no coding principle that more violently combines good-when-used-how-it's-meant with horrible-when-overgeneralized than "explicit is better than implicit" if you're defining a constant DEFAULT_FOR_WHATEVER then every call to some method has to pass that, just fuck you
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this but unironically https://twitter.com/ideologysurfer/status/1187064615559143426 …
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Don't see the utility, you just make fucked up decisions, but now with a pseudorandom decision making factor mixed in.
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Introducing random noise is sometimes a valuable tactic. See for example reinforcement learning algorithms, or simulated annealing, or game theory in imperfect information scenarios. This fact may help explain why people are so nuts : it is selected for.
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