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Makes me wonder if any implementations will do the cute trick of dispensing with the seed constants and deriving them at startup from the unix timestamps. :)

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That's one of those things I would consider "cute, but wrong". I'd rather hardcode for efficiency and add a unit test that rederives.

I mean, if it provably produces the same result, calling it "wrong" is a little much.

They'd be trading the seed constants for the timestamp constants, more annoying than cute honestly.

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