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I suspect Mr Adams and I wouldn't have agreed on much if we'd ever spoken, but Dilbert is hilarious.
I almost cited the accounts demons' random number generator ("Nine, nine, nine, nine" / "Are you sure that's random?" / "That's the thing about random numbers, you can't tell") in an argument at work about a program that was turning up one in a billion chances one time in a thousand and the author was trying to tell me "it's random, it could happen by chance". In the end I decided the sarcasm was merited but unwise. (The program turned out to have a typo that caused it to re-use a random number instead of calling the generator again.)
I almost cited the accounts demons' random number generator ("Nine, nine, nine, nine" / "Are you sure that's random?" / "That's the thing about random numbers, you can't tell") in an argument at work about a program that was turning up one in a billion chances one time in a thousand and the author was trying to tell me "it's random, it could happen by chance". In the end I decided the sarcasm was merited but unwise. (The program turned out to have a typo that caused it to re-use a random number instead of calling the generator again.)