[Coda]

Originally Posted by Quiet Man Cometh

Not computing. What's determining the order she says the pre-determined things?

A Mersenne Twister implementation with a cycle period of 2¹⁹⁹³⁷-1, seeded from the operating system's entropy pool, which is itself populated by such random variables as the current time, the time since the system was booted, the timing between the user's keystrokes, the variability in the user's mouse movements over time, et cetera.

It's not the best random number generator out there, but the first several hundred outputs are well and truly unpredictable unless you know absolutely everything there is to know about the state of the computer running it.