![](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/6Q16C1TbuJ.jpg)
![](https://fry.gs/pictrs/image/c6832070-8625-4688-b9e5-5d519541e092.png)
it’s basically just a shared random number generator on a timer (it’s slightly smarter than that but that’s the gist), so as long as you know the start time, the current time and the starting point for the RNG, both parties can get the same result without having to ever communicate
if you have a pipeline running eslint on all your PRs (which you should have!), you can set
no-explicit-any
as an error in your eslint config so it’s impossible to merge code withany
in it