This is hilarious! On Tue, 22 Sep 2020, 21:03 James Morris, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I suppose. By responding you've automatically your name is automatically > added to the script, by hand. My hand. However, due to your attitude to > winning I've put a marker next to your name. > > Cheers > > James. > > > > > > On 22/09/2020 21:01, Bjørn Magnhildøen via NetBehaviour wrote: > > hi james, > can you put me in as a loser? i'd like to be part of it, i've enjoyed your > website over time. maybe at the bottom, outside the count? > > best wishes, > bjørn > > > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 7:39 PM James Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> RF (here my abbreviation for "random function") holds a random numeric >> value, currently fixed at 2020. If it wasn't fixed I'd use the alternative >> suggested in the comment, being the value of nanoseconds from system time. >> It's fixed because there are only three entrants, and two of them agree the >> third should win. count holds the number of entrants. The % symbol means >> modulus. A modulus calculation is a way of taking a big number and >> wrapping it around a small number until it's no larger than the small >> number. RF % count + 1 therefor provides the index of the winner in the >> list of names. >> >> >> On 22/09/2020 08:58, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote: >> >> Ha hah! Thanks for the endorsement Alan; ) >> But I'm pretty sure that's not how it should work. >> James I don't understand the logic of the selection. How's it work? >> >> :) >> R >> >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 1:59 AM Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Surely Ruth all the time and forever! >>> >>> Best, Alan >>> >>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2020, James Morris wrote: >>> >>> > winner selecting bash script attached. modifications welcome. winner >>> > currently fixed. >>> > >>> > >>> >>> web http://www.alansondheim.org/index.html cell 347-383-8552 >>> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/xn.txt >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >> >> >> -- >> Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts >> Lab >> +44 (0) 77370 02879 >> >> *I will only agree to speak at events that are racially and gender >> balanced. >> >> **sending thanks >> <https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/november/think-before-you-thank-if-every-brit-sent-one-less-thank-you-email-a-day-we-would-save-16433-tonnes-of-carbon-a-year-the-same-as-81152-flights-to-madrid.html> >> in >> advance >> >> *Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through >> exhibitions, >> labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking. >> furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org/> >> >> *DECAL* Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 >> technologies research hub >> >> for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now. >> >> decal.is <http://www.decal.is> >> >> Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee >> >> Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. >> >> Registered business address: Carbon Accountancy, 80-83 Long Lane, London, >> EC1A 9ET. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing >> [email protected]https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > [email protected]https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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