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Reproducibility and seed-ability isn't a footgun unless it's easy to do wrong accidentally, or hard to do right accidentally. The former really isn't a problem
by Veedrac 11y ago
Reproducibility and seed-ability isn't a footgun unless it's easy to do wrong accidentally, or hard to do right accidentally.
The former really isn't a problem except for really poor APIs, and the later isn't made worse by it... although the PCG random author does like to make a point of just how bad it is in C++ (see [1]).
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/31857s/random_number_generation_it_might_be_harder_than/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/31857s/random_number_g...