[PD] Random

[Miller Puckette]

The Pi always boots at a constant date (no battery to keep a clock running).

cheers
M
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 01:14:08PM -0500, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> I was thinking it would just return the posix date via outlets or a list. Why would Pd need to save the previous date?
> 
> > On May 31, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > Warning:  [date] won't work so well on Raspberry Pi startup scripts (no
> > way to save date from boot to boot).
> > 
> > I think the best vanilla way on linux or mac is to read /dev/random into
> > an array using soundfiler.
> > 
> > cheers
> > Miller
> > 
> > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 01:00:40PM -0500, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> >> Yeah. I could use it as [date] is the only reason I have zexy installed right now.
> >> 
> >>> On May 31, 2018, at 12:56 PM, hans w. koch <hansw.koch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> wouldn´t it be more interesting/useful to incorporate a [date] object into vanilla pd, from which it would be trivial to generate unique seeds, but which also could be used in (many) other contexts?
> >>> 
> >>> hans
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> Am 31.05.2018 um 19:21 schrieb Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com>:
> >>>> 
> >>>> It would relatively easy to add a right outlet to [random]. Another option might be an explicit [seed] object which could give you further control or perhaps some creation flags for [random] as well.
> >>>> 
> >>>>>> you still have control on the seed... just seed it
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> no because you need to add an extra outlet to [random] and prints out the
> >>>>> seed value.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> or even seed it with the system time on creation?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> if one adds now this behaviour one need to put a flag for backward
> >>>>> compatibility.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> what if [seed( without argument would take the current system time?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> this could be an idea but one need the second outlet.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> ciao
> >>>>> -Marco Matteo Markidis
> >>>> 
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