Starts interesting, then veers into the usual "true random number" bullshit. Use radioactive decay as source of your random numbers!
amelius•37m ago
How do we know it's truly random?
zeroxfe•13m ago
> usual "true random number" bullshit
What's bullshit about it? This is how TRNGs in security enclaves work. They collect entropy from the environment, and use that to continuously reseed a PRNG, which generates bits.
If you're talking "true" in the philosophical sense, that doesn't exist -- the whole concept of randomness relies on an oracle.
Tomte•1h ago
amelius•37m ago
zeroxfe•13m ago
What's bullshit about it? This is how TRNGs in security enclaves work. They collect entropy from the environment, and use that to continuously reseed a PRNG, which generates bits.
If you're talking "true" in the philosophical sense, that doesn't exist -- the whole concept of randomness relies on an oracle.