McGlockenshire

> Maybe you don't remember Postgres in the early 2000s.

Not even the grungiest version of MySQL 3.23 running on some shared hosting provider in the early 2000s would behave as immediately illogically as the database under test here.

Someone with your username should know this.

What's more likely, the random calls were made at those times, or that someone changed the numbers to make it look like they were made at those times?

Only one of those requires a conspiracy theory-tainted brain to think up.

On Windows it's effectively a page down. The behavior you are describing is present on other platforms.

Yeah this is just a link to the branding page. I do appreciate the discussion of "system 500" at the bottom.

But if you yank out the "brand" from the URL you'll get the actual site.

Literally the second line of the article addresses your questions by linking to the source code repo under discussion. Every single one of the sidebars about the topics being discussed links directly to the relevant code.

The article even tells you it's C. The copyright dates on the code are 1980ish. It's talking about rogue, not rogue.exe, so this is going to be on Unix, real Unix. So, it'll be using rand(), the bad one, surely, just by what it is and where it is. That completely answers all your questions.

All you had to do was click links.

edit2: lmao okay so I read the code myself and you'll never, ever guess what it does. It does NOT use rand().

The guy below downvoted for insulting SV and saying "read chapter 5" is correct: Read Chapter 5, the "Symbiote or Parasite" one you've partially quoted here. It's a real banger.

Read it both in the context of the time, the early 16-bit 70s when retail store what-we'd-call-ERPs were bleeding edge technology, and then in the context of today where the actualities are different but the realities are still there.

Don't let the computer take the blame.

The original title, "State of multi-player Wayland" is a much better summary of the article. This ain't just about the pointers! In fact, the author is very explicit about that:

> I think there could be a term that’s describing this concept even better – in the title of this post, I picked “multi-player”, to make clear that it’s mostly about multiple people who are collaborating. I’ve also seen “multi-cursor” or “multi-pointer” (which are missing the keyboard component).

They can't even reliably answer questions about their own training!

You'll see this kind of fun in other databases that support "persistent connections." When you start up, you have absolutely no idea what the state of the database is. If a previous process errored out, you might find yourself in the middle of a broken transaction for example. Did the last session do some weird SET magic to make things work? Did it create temporary tables? Well guess what, it's all still there!

No, actually, an interactive textual conversation is a significantly different thing than a television show.

The reason for this is that there are still drivers for old hardware that hook into the old control panel elements to actually function.

If you get rid of the control panel applets, you break the drivers.

This is also an old and out-of-date complaint. Almost all of the settings are now inside the Settings application and only inside the Settings application, with the related control panel applets gone.

As a homeless person, do not wish homelessness on yourself.

> offensive program

Agreed.

> Windows 11 machine with only 4 GB of RAM using Firefox with the network throttled to 3G speeds

And their mobile device should be the cheapest Android phone from a monthly cell provider you've never heard of. This is what the real world is for a lot of people, and a huge number of developers simply don't know or care.