Sometimes you need random numbers — and properly random ones, at that. Hackaday Alum [Sean Boyce] whipped up a rig that serves up just that, tasty random bytes delivered fresh over MQTT. [Sean] tells ...

I need to generate 10 MB of random characters to write to a file, so I hacked together a quick script to do it. It is UNBEARABLY, FANTASTICALLY, CATACLYSMICALLY slow. I mean, it's been running for the ...

Because computers don't understand words or phrases in the same way people can, they speak a language of their own, using only two symbols: 0 and 1. This computing parlance is known as binary code, ...