> but they are not practical or necessary in any production environment But do they provide any greater advantage or greater utility to your "science projects"

> but they are not practical or necessary in any production environment But do they provide any greater advantage or greater utility to your "science projects" other than being cheaper to run? What do higher rates and higher reliability have to do with being able to create a non-deterministic and thus truly random bit? In other words, how on earth would a hacker even conceivably be able to hack the lava lamp setup?