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Er, no. The falsity of this is taught in virtually all first year CS courses.
Computer programmers and other IT workers? Sure… but hash functions have never been considered a substitute fore pure randomness.
That’s why we have a random generator in each computer based on thermal variance, I/O input, and other actually random features. And even then, we have to be careful not to hash the randomness out of the source data.
Or, if you're more fun, a giant wall of lava lamps! The coolest randomness in town!
(Cloudflare does this)