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 like, am i an idiot or are these just extremely unclear instructions? i don't understand the real-world utility here. you want me to randomly assign food to people? and randomly assign table seating? hey, shit, if we're going to do that, just have everyone sit where they want and leave who gets what up to the waiters!

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/171/164/841/030/262/original/19cd95228efba28d.png 
 i'm being a little obtuse, but the point of using real-world examples rather than like lists of integers or something is to make it **more** clear why we're doing this, not **less**