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7 Sep 2024 11:23:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Paranoia?  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 21 May 2008 14:53:50
Message: <48346fbe@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> What...the...hell...?
> 
> I just had a closer look at my test data. For reasons *beyond* my powers
> of comprehension, I used a hand-written LCG psuedorandom number
> generator to generate the file contents. Trouble is, the particular
> coefficients I picked have a period of... four.
> 
> *WHY* would I do such a thing?! >_<
> 
> Of course, The *Real* WTF is that I seeded my broken PRNG using... the
> system PRNG. Which actually works correctly.
> 
> Dude. Seriously. What the HELL was I smoking that day?? [shakes head in
> disbelief] I literally cannot *believe* I managed to do something this
> retarded...
> 

It's one of those "who the hell wrote this piece of... oh" moments


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