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sneak ◴[] No.45154725[source]
> Card dealers create a unique deck with each shuffle, something computers cannot replicate

This is entirely, unequivocally false.

Shuffling as an algorithm to implement is easy to fuck up, but if you use a good one and a true RNG source, computers can shuffle better than humans - just as randomly, and many orders of magnitude faster.

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smallerize ◴[] No.45154759[source]
I think the RNG source is the point here. It's not as impossible as stated, but you have to put some work in to get a good one.
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1. Sanzig ◴[] No.45155457[source]
Do you? Modern CPUs have had built-in TRNGs for years.