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They are provably less random than a lava lamp, though. And also not very pretty to look at.
They consume a lot of energy for an extremely narrow use case. Output is still random. Companies such as Cloudflare will try hard to find a use for them when a better and extremely cheaper alternative exists, such as weather sensors.
Wait a minute.
Wait wait wait wait wait.
I saw the lava lamp thing. Is that just a wacky PR stunt?
It didn't even occur to me that there are less stupid ways of getting hundreds of reliably chaotic numbers.
I gotta look into this more, this is spinning my brain.