Re:Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing mu...
by gervu on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @06:01PM
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Because users never wanted mathematical randomness. They wanted variety.
Not that saying "random" is wrong, but users mostly mean it in a colloquial sense, while programmers are apt to interpret it in a technical sense. But one leads to math.urandom() and the other to shuffle algorithms.
Not that saying "random" is wrong, but users mostly mean it in a colloquial sense, while programmers are apt to interpret it in a technical sense. But one leads to math.urandom() and the other to shuffle algorithms.