Not anymore than the US being able to strike worldwide to this very moment. They are the only country that has used nuclear bombs against civilians.

The big problem is having one country be able to do it without deterrents and with impunity. MAD is a good thing, if anyone will have those things at all.

One of those things is scarier to American school children and their teachers than the other.

Objectively, nukes have killed 0 American school children and their teachers while legal constitutional American gun owners have killed thousands every year.

The main natural predator of Americans is other Americans.

School children aren’t easily scared by boogie men, but maybe they should be. The Iranian girls found this out.

scariest thing for American School children and their teachers is the way that the second amendment is administered.

I am old enough to remember that iPad was supposed to be a product-line-dooming bad name.

Everyone was expecting "iSlate", which would have been far better according to popular opinion at the time.

I was expecting the Apple Palette

And just a few years before then... Wii.

Your comment is absolute nonsense.

If there are extremely poor, high-trust societies, then trust is its own variable. If not, then it's a post-hoc explanation.

I suspect it's an imperfect correlation. Other factors like level of income inequality, efficacy/harshness of law enforcement, societal cohesion, would likely influence.

I use Kimi at home via a kimi.com subscription and Kimi CLI (sometimes running inside Zed, sometimes not). My favorite model by far. And it's just $20.

I have to use a supposedly frontier model at work and I hate it.

Nice, thanks for sharing!

Nethack runs as a setgid process that hides save files from users.

Kind of old fashioned now that almost every Unix system is a single user system. There are still public servers for those that want the temptation to be taken away from them.

As to spoilers... Everybody reads the spoilers. I doubt anyone has ever ascended spoiler-free.

[Possible obscure spoiler]

A friend once showed me a post on rec.games.roguelike.nethack where someone was finally begging for a hint because they'd gone deep in the dungeon and couldn't figure out anything to do next. They couldn't find any staircases down, though they had found a weird vibrating square, and none of the many weird items they'd collected seemed to do anything to help.

This is one of the things that makes a spoiler free run hard to imagine. I think the Oracle can tell you about the ritual but geez it would take you forever to figure this stuff out

There is a story of a purported very deep spoiler-free run [1]. The person made a journal of everything the Oracle had to say (over multiple games) and was able to figure out a lot on their own as well.

[1] http://nethack.gridbug.de/ellora/TheElloraSaga.pdf

The ! command. If you run as SUID anything, and the UNIX you had, had a SUID bug, then the shell command SUID as root. Scary when you were running on a "secure" version of UNIX, and it had a SUID bug.

On DOS, the ! Command, gave you access to the levels files, for which you could make a closet level.

I always started a few rounds as every role, and watched the hilarity begin with the stupid ways to kill yourself, which after a few months, were always hillariously fun to read.

First impression: it has a tutorial, which should actually help increase the player base quite a bit.

It comes with some movement quality of life (e.g. moving into a door opens it, moving into an obviously dangerous thing requires confirmation).

If you enable the option, there's color coding of health (green -> full), burden level, and states like poisoning, which I think is new too.

You can filter out messages like "you have displaced your pet".

IIRC, there was always a way to filter out certain messages (or that may be an alt.org customization, but it's been a part of my config file for a while now).

It is absolutely insane to say that Altavista was better than Google though.

Interesting Cuecat story: LibraryThing bought a massive stock of Cuecats and, 20 years later, they still sell them, repurposed to scan ISBNs from books for cataloging purposes: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/CueCat_Guide

> you can’t successfully monetize

this wasn't the goal of modding.

but there will be a point you'll wish you did.