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Re:Show HN: Shishua – Fast pseudo-random generator by closed on Saturday April 18, 2020 @06:46PM (#22911747)
This is not a bad thing, and maybe I'm alone in this, but I spent my first minute thinking over whether "Shishua" was some kind of romanized mandarin or mandarin-esque word!

(I speak cantonese, though, so maybe mandarin speakers wouldn't fall in this trap)

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Re:Show HN: Shishua – Fast pseudo-random generator by yorwba on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:30PM (#22912026)
It's a "stone brush" 石刷 shíshuā. (Alternatively "It's a number!" 是数啊 shì shù a, but then pinyin orthography requires writing it as "Shishu'a" with an apostrophe in front of the third syllable.)
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