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0 pointsloeg9mo ago0 comments

Sadly, people that don't know better use std::mt19937 all the time :-(.

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And the only reason is its cool name. Humans are weird

I used it because it was recommended by Stephan T. Lavavej, maintainer of Visual Studio's C++ Standard Library, in his "rand() Considered Harmful" talk, back when <random> was introduced. See 11m30s. https://youtu.be/LDPMpc-ENqY?t=10m50s

loegOP9mo ago

Well, it's in std. So there's an appeal to authority (the C++ language authors should be smart, right?) and convenience.

on_the_train9mo ago

There are still others in <random>. Yet they always use the cool twister one with the funny numbers

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on_the_train9mo ago

And the only reason is its cool name. Humans are weird

slavik819mo ago

loegOP9mo ago

Well, it's in std. So there's an appeal to authority (the C++ language authors should be smart, right?) and convenience.

on_the_train9mo ago

There are still others in <random>. Yet they always use the cool twister one with the funny numbers

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