in reply to Re^2: A reproducible shuffle? ("stable shuffle")
in thread A reproducible shuffle? ("stable shuffle")
/dev/random usually contains really good random numbers, but reading it could block your scripts by seconds or even minutes if the machine is low on entropy.
/dev/urandom is much faster, but contains less "real" entropy. So /dev/urandom or the last state from rand before setting the seed should be OK.
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