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I've been running a few games lately. I've been using Calc mode to generate random letters, by generating random numbers between 0 and 25.

I happened upon decide-mode in so gave it a try. I can now ask it to roll a 1d26. That gives me a random number between 1 and 26.

Better yet, I can load a table of the letters of the alphabet, then ask decide-mode to give me a random line from that table. This gives me a direct random letter of the alphabet.

I tried to update "afew" to "a few" by editing my post, but I can't get the web interface to let me edit the text. It keeps applying my space key to other parts of the web page. Sad 😩 There's the delete and re-edit option that seems to work. So what exactly should the "edit" option do?

Dave Marquardt

I noticed that I had something in the "Search or paste URL" entry above the posting area, and that my key presses were being seen there. I removed what I had there, and now editing a post works.

I'm finding the web interface challenging lately. Another example is for polls. There's a choice of "Choose one" and "Multiple choices". Initially I though "choose one" applied to the menu itself, kind of a "choose one of these options" thing. And I misread "multiple choices" as "multiple choice". Yeah, I want a multiple choice poll (not sure what else there would be?). Nope, not what I wanted.

I sometimes think I missed my calling as a software tester. I seem to be able to find ways to break things 😀