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Re:Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code stil... by kag0 on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:54PM (#24263329)
> there is no such thing as truly random number generation on contemporary computers

well that's just not true. there's no shortage of noise we can sample to get true random numbers. we just often stretch the random numbers for performance purposes.

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Re:Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code stil... by James_Henry on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:10AM (#24272128)
There is a shortage of truly random easily sampled noise though.
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