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I understand and agree with the point you were making. Last comment was for funsies.
by n3rdy 14y ago
I understand and agree with the point you were making. Last comment was for funsies.
- carbocation 14y agoIf we're going for funsies, I wonder if /dev/urandom could be considered gambling software, given the right circumstances? Only kind of kidding.
- jlgreco 14y agoI can see it now: a bunch of grizzly old men huddled together in the back room of a local bar, a single bare light-bulb burning above them. Every few seconds they yell in anguish or delight and throw down more cash, words incomprehensible to any outsider. In the middle sits a pasty nerd, slowly typing out `echo $RANDOM` into a computer over and over again.
- jrogers65 14y agoNow let's not go too far with this hypothetical computer-aided gambling scenario. Everyone knows that Bash keeps a history of commands and that our pasty friend simply needs to press the up arrow followed by return after the first roll of the digital die.
- carbocation 14y agoUp followed by return is too much work. Let's lighten the load: while true; do echo $RANDOM; read -p "Press [ENTER] to continue gambling."; done; Actually, our pasty friend doesn't really need a job: while true; do echo $RANDOM; sleep 10; done;
- Hello71 14y agowhile echo $RANDOM; do sleep 10; done
- zem 14y agowatch -n 10 'echo $RANDOM'
- n3rdy 14y agoAttention! carbocation did not type this code. His account was hacked and a programmer working for the internet mafia released this code using his stolen account to make him the unwitting fall guy. carbolocation was with me all afternoon, we were at church working in the soup kitchen, feeding the poor. We did so anonymously because we believe people who take credit for charity work are ego-maniacal monsters.
- jlgreco 14y agoVery true, but never underestimate the importance of theatrics. ;)