• biofaust@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    They consume a lot of energy for an extremely narrow use case. Output is still random. Companies such as Cloudflare will try hard to find a use for them when a better and extremely cheaper alternative exists, such as weather sensors.

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      7 days ago

      Wait a minute.
      Wait wait wait wait wait.

      I saw the lava lamp thing. Is that just a wacky PR stunt?
      It didn’t even occur to me that there are less stupid ways of getting hundreds of reliably chaotic numbers.

      I gotta look into this more, this is spinning my brain.

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        7 days ago

        Measuring any random enough system at any moment would yield usable results. You could be stirring tea leaves and it would be perfectly usable.