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gblowfish

01-22-2018, 01:04 PM

Far out, man. Techno nerd stuff, but way groovy:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/encryption-lava-lamps?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page

stumppy

01-22-2018, 01:11 PM

That is too cool. Looks like a perfect random generator.

Fish

01-22-2018, 03:51 PM

Randomness is actually very very difficult to do in programming. It's a pretty fascinating subject. It's debatable whether any computer generated number could ever be truly random.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2221790

jjjayb

01-22-2018, 06:00 PM

Somehow I have a feeling the idea came for this while the developer was getting high and looking at a lava lamp. Pretty cool idea.

RippedmyFlesh

01-22-2018, 06:13 PM

Score 1 for human creativity

displacedinMN

01-22-2018, 06:28 PM

Foil hats unite.

Reerun_KC

01-22-2018, 06:41 PM

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180123/35d922580a25e1031794c0a25dce9f91.jpg

Holladay

01-22-2018, 06:57 PM

T.C.

Too Cool.

BlackHelicopters

01-22-2018, 07:20 PM

What is that liquid in those damn lamps? Semen?

KChiefs1

01-22-2018, 09:34 PM

I love lamp.

007

01-23-2018, 12:43 AM

That is really cool.

eDave

01-23-2018, 01:26 AM

Man I miss my Lava Lamp. Actually had a metal base. GF ended up convincing me, after much reluctance by me, to get rid of it because it made me look too much like a stereotypical stoner. I miss it. I don't miss her.

:(

Rasputin

01-23-2018, 05:05 AM