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Comment by jefftk

17 hours ago

There's only a ~1 in 17 chance that they'd all be below 256 if 384 was the limit. My money is on accidentally generating a 1-byte random number.

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JK-Swizzle  13 hours ago

I’m betting the full number was generated, but someone biffed the code and only grabbed the first byte.

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