Indeed, the first thing I thought was "hey that's PHP! Oh, did he just use rand()?" It ought to be common knowledge in the PHP world that you always use mt_ran

Indeed, the first thing I thought was "hey that's PHP! Oh, did he just use rand()?" It ought to be common knowledge in the PHP world that you always use mt_rand(). On OSX, the results aren't very noticeable, probably because the underlying libs are higher quality than Windows, but mt_rand() definitely produces something comparable to his random.org image. Not sure why rand() isn't simply replaced with mt_rand() under the hood, since improving randomness will hardly break b/c... Maybe PHP9 will have that ;)