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Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero' (www.techradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can make a truly random shuffle that doesn’t do that in like five pibes of code. This is the most pointless objection to random shuffle that I’ve ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Lines of code. Lines. Not pibes.

In unrelated news, I hate autocorrect. Pibes is not a fucking word.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I mean, not really. This is actually a non-trivial topic, and true random is a really bad label for what someone actually wants out of a shuffling algorithm.

See the following engineering blog post on the subject: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/