[frost_knight]

Everything sent to /dev/null can eventually be retrieved from /dev/random, given sufficient time.

[bdamm]

However, since you're effectively brute forcing a match on an unknown key, the universe may go cold and dark before your content arises, for any content larger than 128 bits or so.

[contravariant]

And at some point it gets more efficient to just wait until the universe randomly starts to repeats itself to recreate the content you wanted.

[wruza]

But you’ll restart with it in not-yet-lost-it state and will lose it eventually. There is nothing useful in /dev/random, really, apart from the entropy for crypto. Trillions of trillions of … of trillions unique virtual atoms of no particular value.

[taftster]

Only if you believe that /dev/random is truly random.

[usmannk]

Even a truly random die is not guaranteed to ever roll a 6.

[contravariant]

Though it does eventually roll a 6 almost always.

Which is math speak for 100% of the time.

[amscanne]

“ever” implies the limit of time. Since lim_{t->Inf} p(at least one 6 is rolled) = 1, I think you could say it’s guaranteed.

[IncRnd]

Yet, it probably will.

[ithkuil]

if it has once, it will again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor...

[snickerer]

I KNOW WHERE the data you read from /dev/random COMES FROM.

But I can't tell you because I would be a dead man if I would.

[ithkuil]

it's written on the menu of the restaurant at the end of the universe