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[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 16:10:07 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 15:59:53 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> Like almost never? I can't think of any reason to ever do that.
>
> I mentioned it because of this story:
>
> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number_b.html
>
> I'm sure there's better ways to do it, but since a similar 
> technique was used in a high profile product, I thought I'd 
> mention it as a possible use.
>
> though I'd recommend against trying this at home for anything 
> serious since there's better sources of more random 
> randomness...

In general, I can't think of a worse way of choosing a seed other 
than a fixed value*. It's actually quite interesting thinking of 
all the ways it's bad :)

*and even that has it's upsides for repeatability!