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7 Sep 2024 17:16:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Paranoia?  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 21 May 2008 15:12:50
Message: <48347432@news.povray.org>
Mike Raiford wrote:

> Familiar with the concept of NIH? (Not Invented Here)
> 
> I know the PRNG built into the standard C library sucks, but i think 
> it's more random than .. well ... your example.

I got tired of trying to figure out how to get Haskell's PRNG library to 
work right. I figured it would be... hahaha!... easier to do it myself. :-/

>> 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...
> 
> I've been wondering that on the project I've been working on. Seriously 
> all day in a non-air conditioned manufacturing plant is not fun. Of 
> course the component I'm working on is a major PITA, due to the sheer 
> number of things that can go wrong both within my control and outside of 
> my control. :/ and it deals with physical movement of mechanical parts. 
> Not fun when you really screw up. (Thank God for limit switches)

Hmm. So here "crash" takes on a whole new meaning, eh? ;-)

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