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minus-squarenetizen@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI can confirm I’ve never used psuedo random numbers
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoHuh? Unless you have a camera pointed at a lava lamp, or a radio capturing static, you only ever use pseudo random numbers… Even /dev/random is not really random, just has a clever entropy estimation.
minus-squarebitcrafter@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoYeah, for me it is a matter of personal principle: I am against the killing of animals just so I can have a nice random number.
I can confirm I’ve never used psuedo random numbers
Huh? Unless you have a camera pointed at a lava lamp, or a radio capturing static, you only ever use pseudo random numbers… Even /dev/random is not really random, just has a clever entropy estimation.
They’re being a prick about the typo
Oh, missed that one, thanks!
Yeah, for me it is a matter of personal principle: I am against the killing of animals just so I can have a nice random number.