It makes me feel much better to know their servers are GNU/Linux
systems and that they are using /dev/random, which is basically what the
post is saying. Maybe I should switch to Doyle's Room as my primary
site!
The whole cellular automaton seems total overkill to me; they could assign
each card in the deck a random 256 bit number from /dev/random. I guess
they don't do that because it'd be too slow, given the huge number of
shuffled decks they must produce each minute.
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Re: Doyle's room
Date: 2006-05-19 16:01 (UTC)It makes me feel much better to know their servers are GNU/Linux systems and that they are using /dev/random, which is basically what the post is saying. Maybe I should switch to Doyle's Room as my primary site!
The whole cellular automaton seems total overkill to me; they could assign each card in the deck a random 256 bit number from /dev/random. I guess they don't do that because it'd be too slow, given the huge number of shuffled decks they must produce each minute.
Anyway, thanks for the link, Tom!