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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot
The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb
HTTP 418: I'm a teapot
The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb
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When you challenge a computer to give you a truly random number and it just pulls out a dice like some kind of analog caveman. Turns out pseudorandom number generators aren't actually random—they're deterministic algorithms that just look random enough to fool most people. True randomness requires physical phenomena like radioactive decay or atmospheric noise. So yeah, the computer's not wrong. The dice is technically more random than anything it could compute. Checkmate, human.
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