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Two things blow up your theory (although I love the joke).
1) My wife hates cats, and our dog does too. There would never be one in the house, not alive or for long anyway.
2) The aquarium has a lid, and even if by some totally, small, approaching 0, chance a cat did get in, its' attempts to get at the fish would only increase their random movement in an attempt to get away.
Nice!
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Creatures with even a trace of intelligence will not behave in a random manner, whether alone, or in groups (wherein they react to one another).
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And fish tend to "group together" to avoid predation.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Not mine. They are all different species and sizes.
Variety is the spice of life.
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You can collaborate with these guys: https://www.random.org/
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Random does not exist.
If you happen to have enough time to actually pursue this project, I'd rather you mow my lawn.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Wasting your time.
Model the female thought process instead. Truly random.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Too True!
Also totally impossible in my experience.
My wife came with a manual.. but it the pages were all blank
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If you were to take the camera and take a picture of the aquarium, and then calculate a hash of the resulting image file...would it really be any less "random" than applying to it the subsequent algorithm you intend to create?
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How random does your number have to be?
I usually settle for the time in ticks; for the one-time-pads I usually use a completely-unrandom movie. Big blob, lots of data.
Any particular reason why you want a "true" random number?
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Honestly, I was more interested in the replies I would get.
I seem to have received both a quantity and breadth of replies way beyond what I expected.
They span from supportive, to critical, to informative, from serious to hilarious.
It seems there is a tremendous amount of interest on this topic in the community.
Also, I am at the point of planning what to do when I finally give it all up. (Retire, shudder!)
Also, I could use another reason to keep the Aquarium.
BTW: I expected someone to mention the bubbler as a source of random input. Someone mentioned the bubbler but not as a source, only that it caused the fish locations not to be random. (I disagree with that.)
BTW: I thought someone would come up with the fact that playing GILLbert & Sullivan tunes would be greatly appreciated by the fish, causing more or perhaps less random behavior. and more puns of that nature.
Finally, I thank you and everyone else that replied to this post.
Old men need something to do, besides think about young girls and glory days.
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If I accidentally top off the tank with bleach, the RN Generated would be 0000000000000; correct?
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You'd have more than random number failure to worry about.
Your wife / significant other would be very, very angry.
Also a really bad smell in the house.
Mr. Clean
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... that new people struggle?
A questioner complained that their SortCompare method in a DataGridView did not work. Looking at the code it was clear that they were sorting integer values as strings, which means alphabetic rather than numeric order. So, I went to MSDN to check the documentation, only to discover that OP had copied the code verbatim. And every sample pertaining to sorting in a DataGridView had exactly the same bad code: DataGridViewSortCompareEventArgs Class (System.Windows.Forms) | Microsoft Docs[^].
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: And every sample pertaining to sorting in a DataGridView had exactly the same bad code
At least they are consistent.
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Numeric sorting. How old school!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Yes, and you understand that. However, the main sample shows the first column labelled "ID" containing numbers (even though as string values). So a relatively inexperienced user would assume that sorting by ID would list numbers 4 and 5 before 11 and 12, rather than the other way round.
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A plot to flesh out plagiarists?
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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Picture implies he wants to number the rows in the gutter. I don't see how sorting is going to help with that
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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As usual the pictures don't quite explain what he wants, and requests for details never get answered.
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Ok, thanks for the all the feedback to the post I had done previously. After much reading and watching I have decided to............
......drum roll........
......go with the Anycubic Mega-S, should be delivered in time for me getting home from offshore! So something to look forward to in November! Here is one of the many reviews I have watched to come to the decision: Anycubic Mega-S 3D Printer Review - YouTube
Will see where this goes!
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Any idea what you want to print? I have an ongoing battle between my 3D printed Marauder[^] and the cleaning lady. No doubt it will be in pieces again when I come to work on monday. Perhaps I should print it again, this time a little bigger and with some real robot servos and lasers. I just don't have any source for miniature particle cannons or autocannons yet.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Just build a model Railgun[^] - you might need a good supply of AA cells to run it though...
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