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You can collaborate with these guys: https://www.random.org/
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Random does not exist.
If you happen to have enough time to actually pursue this project, I'd rather you mow my lawn. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Wasting your time.
Model the female thought process instead. Truly random. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Too True!
Also totally impossible in my experience. 
My wife came with a manual.. but it the pages were all blank
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If you were to take the camera and take a picture of the aquarium, and then calculate a hash of the resulting image file...would it really be any less "random" than applying to it the subsequent algorithm you intend to create?
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How random does your number have to be?
I usually settle for the time in ticks; for the one-time-pads I usually use a completely-unrandom movie. Big blob, lots of data.
Any particular reason why you want a "true" random number?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Honestly, I was more interested in the replies I would get.
I seem to have received both a quantity and breadth of replies way beyond what I expected.  
They span from supportive, to critical, to informative, from serious to hilarious.
It seems there is a tremendous amount of interest on this topic in the community.
Also, I am at the point of planning what to do when I finally give it all up. (Retire, shudder!)
Also, I could use another reason to keep the Aquarium.
BTW: I expected someone to mention the bubbler as a source of random input. Someone mentioned the bubbler but not as a source, only that it caused the fish locations not to be random. (I disagree with that.)
BTW: I thought someone would come up with the fact that playing GILLbert & Sullivan tunes would be greatly appreciated by the fish, causing more or perhaps less random behavior. and more puns of that nature.
Finally, I thank you and everyone else that replied to this post.
Old men need something to do, besides think about young girls and glory days.
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If I accidentally top off the tank with bleach, the RN Generated would be 0000000000000; correct?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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You'd have more than random number failure to worry about.
Your wife / significant other would be very, very angry.
Also a really bad smell in the house.
Mr. Clean
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... that new people struggle?
A questioner complained that their SortCompare method in a DataGridView did not work. Looking at the code it was clear that they were sorting integer values as strings, which means alphabetic rather than numeric order. So, I went to MSDN to check the documentation, only to discover that OP had copied the code verbatim. And every sample pertaining to sorting in a DataGridView had exactly the same bad code: DataGridViewSortCompareEventArgs Class (System.Windows.Forms) | Microsoft Docs[^].
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: And every sample pertaining to sorting in a DataGridView had exactly the same bad code
At least they are consistent.
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Numeric sorting. How old school!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Yes, and you understand that. However, the main sample shows the first column labelled "ID" containing numbers (even though as string values). So a relatively inexperienced user would assume that sorting by ID would list numbers 4 and 5 before 11 and 12, rather than the other way round.
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A plot to flesh out plagiarists?
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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Picture implies he wants to number the rows in the gutter. I don't see how sorting is going to help with that
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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As usual the pictures don't quite explain what he wants, and requests for details never get answered.
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Ok, thanks for the all the feedback to the post I had done previously. After much reading and watching I have decided to............
......drum roll........
......go with the Anycubic Mega-S, should be delivered in time for me getting home from offshore! So something to look forward to in November! Here is one of the many reviews I have watched to come to the decision: Anycubic Mega-S 3D Printer Review - YouTube
Will see where this goes!
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Any idea what you want to print? I have an ongoing battle between my 3D printed Marauder[^] and the cleaning lady. No doubt it will be in pieces again when I come to work on monday. Perhaps I should print it again, this time a little bigger and with some real robot servos and lasers. I just don't have any source for miniature particle cannons or autocannons yet.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Just build a model Railgun[^] - you might need a good supply of AA cells to run it though...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: you might need a good supply of AA cells to run it thoug
Good point. Miniature fusion reactor also on the list now.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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This may help: Mr Fusion[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Not good enough. On the Nostromo[^] it was barely sufficient to make coffee.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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As a starter........
Some cases for my various electronic boards. (Arduino, beagles, raspi, parallelas, beans, logis and god knows what else is in the drawer!)
Replacement arm for a cooling fan. (the arm that allows it to move left to right, sprog broke it, tried a repair once already, but where it broke it needs a new part.)
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