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sundial, there is nothing in the OPs post that suggests, hints or alludes to a requirement for the huge additional costs and complexity of a cryptographic PRNG.

You're just making shit up again, and spewing out regurgitated snippets of advice by other people, that you obviously have no understanding of.

With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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Re^3: how to get a 64bit random number with rand() ?
by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Mar 21, 2018 at 23:02 UTC
    Let's be fair. 'Anonymous Monk' has alerted the OP that in some cases, more powerful tools are required and are available. Potentially, this could be the most important post so far.
    Bill
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      I agree, but Sundial is the most destructive force so far.

      While - to cite myself - being stupid is not a crime, we shouldn't go crazy and spend much more energy on fighting him, than he needs for provocation.

      The regulars already know how to handle his "advice", it's only necessary to shortly warn others.

      There are already enough analysis of his behaviour in the archives to link to.

      Having said that ...

      ... he recently threatened to sue the monastery, personally I think this is indeed a reason to "uninvite" him from this party here.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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      I could alert all the monks that getting a prostate exam is a good idea which could potentially be the most important post for some monk in the history of the site. Not necessarily germane though.

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