{"id":9014,"date":"2020-07-17T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9014"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:10:13","slug":"red-meat-friday-word-as-a-random-number-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9014","title":{"rendered":"Red Meat Friday: Word as a Random Number Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you all know, Word is one of my favorite whipping boys. I often say it\u2019s the worst piece of software ever foisted on an unsuspecting public. Doubtless that\u2019s hyperbolic but Word is something I try never to use. Karl Voit apparently feels the same:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New random number generator approach:<br \/>\n1&#xfe0f;&#x20e3; have 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Word?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Word<\/a> documents: 1 original + some changes, 1 with new chapters.<br \/>\n2&#xfe0f;&#x20e3; Copy &amp; paste new chapters to the original document.<br \/>\n3&#xfe0f;&#x20e3; Header numbers are now random.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/02cKMoAsLm\">https:\/\/t.co\/02cKMoAsLm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karl Voit (@n0v0id) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/n0v0id\/status\/1283325819176341504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re in any doubt as to what Voit really thinks, there\u2019s this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is unbelievable how bad the user experience of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Microsoft?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Microsoft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Word?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Word<\/a> is.<br \/>\nI did not miss working with it. &#x1f612;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karl Voit (@n0v0id) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/n0v0id\/status\/1283064906573545472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you all know, Word is one of my favorite whipping boys. I often say it\u2019s the worst piece of software ever foisted on an unsuspecting public. Doubtless that\u2019s hyperbolic but Word is something I try never to use. Karl &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9014\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-9014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-rmf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9015,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}