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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster on Saturday April 13, 2019 @08:04PM (#19656608)
This seems awfully specific, but people are already working on this full time [1]. Their hardware detects the commercials and swaps them out for content of your choosing. Seems like it's targeted toward businesses who want to show their own ads instead of commercials.

[1] https://taiv.tv/

Re:The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube (2009) [pdf] on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:16PM (#19139827)
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#4b3

The World Cube Association requires "equal probability for each state" by scramble programs used for their events.

You're right that a large number of rotations will result in something indistinguishable from random by an individual, but that is not sufficient according to WCA regulations as it's not uniformly random.