this post was submitted on 23 May 2026
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Two things:
It wasn't missing on a 90% that was an issue; you could miss shots that showed 100% because it was actually a 99.5% chance and the display number got rounded up.
It still doesn't use real probability. They literally programmed it so anything over 50% was actually a much higher percentage behind the scenes to make you feel like you were doing better (and because computers can't do truely random numbers). This is actually a super common thing in all video games that use percentages or dice rolls. And becsuse it's a computer, if you opened up the code to see the starting seed and all the math applied to it, you could accurately predict everything in the sequence.
Ok, well... there are good cryptographic ways of getting psudo-random numbers that are essentially just good as true random numbers.
Also, Intel chips actually do have hardware that uses quantum effects to generate actual random numbers. I'm not sure if AMD is doing the same these days, but I wouldn't be surprised.
AMD's supported it since 2015, but it's not something a normal app would use anyway (They'd just ask the OS for it).
More likely for the app to get it wrong though, generating unpredictable random numbers (Which is all you realistically need) is pretty easy, not screwing up and making them more predictable is hard.
Nice, yeah that's basically what I thought.
And yeah, I agree, what you do with those instructions is the tricky part.