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Comment by jrogers65 | Hacker News Reader

Now let's not go too far with this hypothetical computer-aided gambling scenario. Everyone knows that Bash keeps a history of commands and that our pasty friend simply needs to press the up arrow followed by return after the first roll of the digital die.

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Very true, but never underestimate the importance of theatrics. ;)

Up followed by return is too much work. Let's lighten the load:

    while true; do echo $RANDOM; read -p "Press [ENTER] to continue gambling."; done;

Actually, our pasty friend doesn't really need a job:

    while true; do echo $RANDOM; sleep 10; done;

  while echo $RANDOM; do sleep 10; done

    watch -n 10 'echo $RANDOM'

Attention! carbocation did not type this code. His account was hacked and a programmer working for the internet mafia released this code using his stolen account to make him the unwitting fall guy.

carbolocation was with me all afternoon, we were at church working in the soup kitchen, feeding the poor. We did so anonymously because we believe people who take credit for charity work are ego-maniacal monsters.

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