Study Guide: How to generate a somewhat random value in Hugo

# time.Now generates something like: 2023-10-15 12:59:28.337140706 -0700 PDT m=+0.041752605
# Use time.Now to generate a somewhat random string and store it in the variable $seed.

{{ $seed := time.Now }}

# Hash the value in $seed and return its MD5 checksum encoded to a hexadecimal string. 
# Then randomly shuffle the string and store the result in $id.

{{ $id := delimit (shuffle (split (md5 $seed) "" )) "" }}

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