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avatar: WilliamWideWeb
Phallic symbol?
The PM display says there's a PM from Aondeug, but when I click it goes to a PM from Glenn Magus Harvey about the Kiddy Grade sequel which doesn't make sense.
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Gone for a while. By "a while" I apparently meant "24 hours".
 2 Fast Eddie, 20th Sep '09 5:08:15 PM from Nassau, Bahamas
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true gort
Should be fixed now. Against the odds, two messages received the same random id. With each id at 24 characters long, each digit selected from a 35 char set, this should be exceedingly rare.
Goal: clear, concise, and witty Acceptable: clear
 3 Goggle Fox, 20th Sep '09 5:12:46 PM from New England Rainforest
avatar: GoggleFox
It has three Gs.
Man, and I thought it was in base 36. Huh. Wonder which letter got dropped.

Anyway, this is what collision tests are for, and unique indices. I never trust random chance to not screw up on me.
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 4 Tangent 128, 20th Sep '09 6:10:51 PM from Longview, TX
avatar: Tangent128
-1.04061489
We seem to proportionately get a lot of collisions, really. The generator doesn't seem that random.
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 5 Goggle Fox, 20th Sep '09 6:30:22 PM from New England Rainforest
avatar: GoggleFox
It has three Gs.
Pseudorandomness is a bitch. Too bad I don't know of an equivalent to Crypt::Random in PHP.
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avatar: Anemotaxis
Naïveté
PHP has libc rand() and a Mersenne twister as mt_rand().

(Speaking of which, "Mersenne twister" is such a great name.)

edited 20th Sep '09 8:54:45 PM by Anemotaxis

 7 Goggle Fox, 20th Sep '09 8:55:24 PM from New England Rainforest
avatar: GoggleFox
It has three Gs.
Both of those are pseudorandom. Crypt::Random is a Perl module that allows for limited true random number generation, from non-deterministic input.
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avatar: Anemotaxis
Naïveté
Someone needs to write a PHP module that throws tomatoes at a wall to generate randomness.
 9 Goggle Fox, 20th Sep '09 9:09:47 PM from New England Rainforest
avatar: GoggleFox
It has three Gs.
*snerk* Non-deterministic input as in internal interrupt times and keyboard input timings.
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avatar: Anemotaxis
Naïveté
What am I going to do with all of this produce, then? Eat it? Bah.
 11 Goggle Fox, 23rd Sep '09 11:45:34 AM from New England Rainforest
avatar: GoggleFox
It has three Gs.
Oh look, it happened to me this time. Seems to be a collision problem between the PM IDs. The subject lines don't even match. It's kind of annoying having a PM notice in the green bar that I can't get rid of. I wouldn't mind knowing what was actually supposed to be sent.

Edited due to redlink of acronym pluralized doom

edited 23rd Sep '09 11:58:25 AM by GoggleFox

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 12 Tzetze, 23rd Sep '09 11:55:04 AM from The Other Rainforest
avatar: Tzetze
DUMB
Well, I sent you a reply to something that I had replied to already, not wanting to start another "thread"... maybe that was a bad idea. (The message was "read [that thread] again", so that's kind of moot.)
 13 Goggle Fox, 23rd Sep '09 11:57:51 AM from New England Rainforest
avatar: GoggleFox
It has three Gs.
Alright, cleared.

Still, looks like you need to do a SELECT to check if a number's in use before doing an INSERT, or else hammer a UNIQUE index into the PM list, Eddie.
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 14 Aondeug, 30th Sep '09 5:26:45 PM from CA Republic of the I.E.
avatar: Aondeug
Dreamscape Wanderer
Ok so melloncollie sent me and Tzetze pms. Problem is...I got the pm that was meant for Tzetze. Twice. They are under different titles, but are the same message.

Also the fora says that I have a new message when I don't.
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 15 melloncollie, 30th Sep '09 5:46:02 PM from True Villainy
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ಠ_ಠ
Bump, seconding Aon's problem.
 16 Tzetze, 30th Sep '09 5:50:12 PM from The Other Rainforest
avatar: Tzetze
DUMB
I'm apparently involved, so I guess I should say that I am not having the problems that these two describe.
avatar: English Ivy
DO IT.
One from BLAM is redirecting to one that Blackmoon apparently sent someone else.
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