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        Please add a self-contained, [minimal, reproducible, example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example) with your use case.

        If I (or someone) can copy it, run it, and see it right away, there's a much higher chance I (or someone) will be able to help you.

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  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
    <!-- Fixed date for reproducible build -->
    <project.build.outputTimestamp>1980-02-01T00:00:00Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
  </properties>

  <build>
    <directory>${project.basedir}/target</directory>

  @BeforeExperiment
  public void setUp() {
    // precalculate some random strings of ascii characters.
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    Random random = new Random(0xdeadbeef); // for unpredictable but reproducible behavior
    sb.ensureCapacity(size);
    for (int k = 0; k < size; k++) {
      // [9-127) includes all ascii non-control characters
      sb.append((char) (random.nextInt(127 - 9) + 9));
    }

  @BeforeExperiment
  public void setUp() {
    // precalculate some random strings of ascii characters.
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    Random random = new Random(0xdeadbeef); // for unpredictable but reproducible behavior
    sb.ensureCapacity(size);
    for (int k = 0; k < size; k++) {
      // [9-127) includes all ascii non-control characters
      sb.append((char) (random.nextInt(127 - 9) + 9));
    }

// and its subdirectories, with no compression, suitable for package time.
//
// Usage:
//
//	go run ../../mkzip.go ../../zoneinfo.zip
//
// We use this program instead of 'zip -0 -r ../../zoneinfo.zip *' to get
// a reproducible generator that does not depend on which version of the
// external zip tool is used or the ordering of file names in a directory
// or the current time.
package main

import (
	"archive/zip"
	"bytes"
	"flag"

## Managing hermetic Python

To make sure that TensorFlow's build is reproducible, behaves uniformly across
supported platforms (Linux, Windows, MacOS) and is properly isolated from
specifics of a local system, we rely on hermetic Python (see
[rules_python](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python)) for all build
and test commands executed via Bazel. This means that your system Python
installation will be ignored during the build and Python interpreter itself

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  @BeforeExperiment
  public void setUp() {
    charset = Charset.forName(charsetName);
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    Random random = new Random(0xdeadbeef); // for unpredictable but reproducible behavior
    sb.ensureCapacity(size);
    for (int k = 0; k < size; k++) {
      // [9-127) includes all ascii non-control characters
      sb.append((char) (random.nextInt(127 - 9) + 9));
    }

In many cases they will only copy a fragment of the code, but that's not enough to **reproduce the problem**.

* You can ask them to provide a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example" class="external-link" target="_blank">minimal, reproducible, example</a>, that you can **copy-paste** and run locally to see the same error or behavior they are seeing, or to understand their use case better.

        }
        log.debug("Write " + length + " took " + ( System.currentTimeMillis() - start ));
    }


    static final void randBytes ( Random r, byte[] buffer ) {
        // regular nextBytes is not reproducible if the reads are not aligned
        for ( int i = 0; i < buffer.length; i++ ) {
            buffer[ i ] = (byte) r.nextInt(256);
        }

    }