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   cyuu :happyday: (dommymommy@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 01:19:04 JST cyuu :happyday:
   The year is 2064. Software developers are smarter than ever. AI has gained the ability to think originally, and mind-reading technology is slowly rolling out. One part of programming, though, remains under-researched and broken.
   
   Shuffling.
   
   It is 2064, and developers still cannot shuffle correctly.
   
   Music shuffling algorithms are 'personalized' to the end user, and end up playing the same songs repeatedly. All games are now played digitally, and board games have been rendered totally obsolete. This has widely been regarded as a mistake. Card decks cannot be shuffled right, and players in certain positions have up to a 30% higher chance of winning the game. Photo frames, too, have been replaced with shuffling photo frames. These photo frames only shuffle ten out of the thousands of photos they've been asked to shuffle, hiding the remaining ones.
   
   There are myths that programmers used to know how to shuffle. Compared to the achievements of today, it seems like it should be a relatively easy task. Some programmers, derogatorily referred to as "out of touch", claim that it only takes a function or two to shuffle correctly. But modern researchers believe that it is much harder than this, needing weeks upon weeks to even begin to implement, and needing teams of dozens of programmers. All current shuffling algorithms are only poor imitations of shuffling simply because the correct amount of resources cannot be allocated to it.
   
   Users have rarely, if ever, experienced a proper shuffle by this point, so this does not bother them. Some remember a time where shuffle worked just fine, but they think that they must have made this up. It is, of course, too difficult to truly shuffle.
   
   Perhaps this lost skill will be regained eventually, but experts predict that it will take at least another decade.
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     cyuu :happyday: (dommymommy@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 01:19:04 JST cyuu :happyday:

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     APPLE I FUCKING HATE YOU. I ASKED YOU TO SHUFFLE A PHOTO ALBUM. YOU CAN'T DO IT. THE ALBUM HAS ONLY 30 FUCKING PHOTOS AND IT ONLY SHOWS ME 8 OF THEM AND SO I HAVE TO GO IN AND MANUALLY SELECT EVERY PHOTO FOR IT TO ACTUALLY SHOW IN THE SHUFFLE. HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?! YOU'RE A TRILLION DOLLAR FUCKING COMPANY AND YOU CAN'T SHUFFLE. I ONLY HAVE THIS PHONE BECAUSE I'M TOO MUCH OF A CHEAP FUCK TO A REPLACE A PHONE THAT FULLY WORKS OTHERWISE. IT'S FOUR YEARS OLD AND I'M GOING TO USE IT UNTIL IT COLLAPSES AND DIES. WHY CAN YOU NOT FUCKING SHUFFLE?!? ARE YOU STUPID? HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN
     
     SOUNDCLOUD, I'M LOOKING AT YOU TOO, YOUR SHUFFLING IS SO BROKEN. HOW DOES A 300 SONG SHUFFLE ONLY SLIGHTLY CHANGE THE ORDER? THE FIRST FEW PLAYS ARE OF ONLY THE FIRST 15 SONGS IN THE PLAYLIST. AFTER THAT, IT JUST SLOWLY MOVES DOWN THE PLAYLIST AND SWITCHES THE ORDER OF EVERYTHING THAT PLAYS BY A MAX OF MAYBE 10 SPACES. HOLY JESUS CHRIST. LEARN TO SHUFFLE. WE ARE SO SCREWED
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