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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by dayjaby on Saturday June 22, 2024 @03:53AM (#40757255)
Can you prove your first statement? I assume you cannot as it's nonsense. Lookup how /dev/random is not really random, but relies on interrupts occuring at random timestamps.

That's like saying f(x)=x is a random function, if x is random.

Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by smokel on Saturday June 22, 2024 @04:45AM (#40757469)
It is quite similar to the infinite monkey theorem, and as it does require infinite time, it is indeed slightly nonsensical.
Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by joquarky on Saturday June 22, 2024 @11:54AM (#40759936)
Substitute the Library of Babel¹ for /dev/random and the point still stands.

¹ https://libraryofbabel.info/