Dear community - please bear with me, I’m new here :slight_smile: for my blog-in-preparation (nothing to show publically yet), I’m trying to show, near the top of all pages, a kind of “random quote”, which should be drawn from an array of quotes in a data file. Ideally I would really like to have t…

[image] bof: I suspect there is some kind of parallelism involved, giving these rare results… Yes, you are right – the locking in the cached partial means that the same partial can be called twice. It was built for speed and not for stability. We could fix that, I guess, if you could create a…

[image] bof: {{ with .Site.Data.kaffeespruch.wochen }}<h2 class=“logo__tagline”>{{ index (. | shuffle | first 1) 0 }}</h2>{{ end }} For a workaround, how about: {{ with .Site.Data.kaffeespruch.wochen }} <h2 class=“logo__tagline”>{{ index . (mod (mod now.Unix 18000) (len .)) }}</h2> {{ end …

[image] bep: [image] bof: I suspect there is some kind of parallelism involved, giving these rare results… Yes, you are right – the locking in the cached partial means that the same partial can be called twice. It was built for speed and not for stability. We could fix that, I guess, if y…

Thanks jgreely! I don’t know why I didn’t think of that myself, I’m totally fond of unixtime modulo magic :slight_smile: The formula has to be a bit different, using div on now.Unix - and your double quote characters were funny. Here’s what I have now, and it’s working perfectly for me: {{ with .S…

[image] bof: The formula has to be a bit different, using div on now.Unix - and your double quote characters were funny. That’s what I get for making it up on the fly. :slight_smile: -j

Is there a way to get "really deterministic" randomness?

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bep November 16, 2017, 12:04am 7

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4086

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Is there a way to get "really deterministic" randomness?

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