Some might argue that randomness is very much a physical reality, or indeed the only one. As an example of loose usage of the word "random" in everyday speech, yes, people do that. You can … (View Post)

By re-inventing the wheel, I meant coding their own pseudo-RNG algorithms in some manner. There are good ways and bad ways of doing this, and doing it really well is a specialist field requiring good… (View Post)

Hmmm. For software which needs to run on multiple platforms, obviously the devs can make no assumption about how RNG works on a particular machine. Unless they (or perhaps the compiler-writers for wh… (View Post)

I think everyone has noticed this. (View Post)

It's true that some effects stack and some don't, but there are so many effects that it's impracticable to list them (and anyway I'm not sure in every case). In the particular case you mention, PfE +… (View Post)