Fair Dice Roll Returns Four

Work like a captain, play like a pirate. 🏴‍☠️ int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. // guaranteed to be random. }

A video shows a Telegram chat sending animated dice, followed by a Google search for Telegram’s GitHub repository and a code search result. The punchline is a deliberately absurd random-number function that always returns 4, claiming it was chosen by a fair dice roll and is therefore guaranteed to be random. The joke mocks programmers’ questionable definitions of randomness and the overconfident style of code comments. EN: A video shows a Telegram chat sending animated dice, followed by a Google search for Telegram’s GitHub repository and a code search result. The punchline is a deliberately absurd random-number function that always returns 4, claiming it was chosen by a fair dice roll and is therefore guaranteed to be random. The joke mocks programmers’ questionable definitions of randomness and the overconfident style of code comments.

• @ithueti / 2199 2020-03-30