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Chosen by a fair dice roll (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by biggeoff@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 80 points 1 week ago (4 children)

How did xkcd predict this so perfectly?

https://xkcd.com/221/

[–] tranzystorek_io@beehaw.org 25 points 1 week ago

when you look for a pattern hard enough, it'll appear sooner or later

[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What if the person who chose 4 made a reference to xkcd

[–] laurathepluralized@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I bet their machine's password is correctHorseBatteryStaple

[–] Unreliable@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Iirc that's in reference to the PS3?

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

eMudhra was probably required to be IEEE-RFC-1149.5 compliant.