Re:Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing mu...
by alanbernstein on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @05:22PM
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nitnitnitpick: GP is likely (and overly pedantically) referring to the use of a PRNG to implement the shuffle, rather than using a true random source.
[S]ampling is typically done "without replacement", i.e., one deliberately avoids choosing any member of the population more than once. Although simple random sampling can be conducted with replacement instead, this is less common and would normally be described more fully as simple random sampling with replacement.
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_random_sample