Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

"I just put my models on a usb drive then plug said drive into the printer."

You must have a lot of spare time on your hands.

"It works great locally" - Um, no it doesn't?

They've made a nice easy-to-use ecosystem. For $400 you can get a P1S that supports adding an AMS, auto bed leveling, enclosed-chamber printing, high precision, high print speeds, and 300/100C nozzle/plate temps, and has an easy cloud print service and a robust ecosystem of models you can just download and print with no extra config straight from the app.

But yeah, their behavior is increasingly entering bad-actor territory. I wonder how long it'll be before they lock entry-level printers into their branded filament?

As a matter of fact, yes. Specifically, to the Greenland region.

Although a golden bridge of grossly outsized proportions and festooned with tacky ornamentation would be much preferred.

Apparently, its current purpose is a demo for their "Copilot" AI technology.

"Hey, what's the big deal? We used to append 'P.S. I love you. Get your free email at Hotmail' to every outgoing email way back in the day, and no one ever had a problem with that..."

I suspect this is where we'll end up... there will be people/organizations who will become popular because they do a good job of vetting things. Their credibility will come from the fact that they do a good job of recommending good things that people like. It will be kind of like the old days of the internet where people had curated lists of links to other interesting pages and lists.

Or 300M plus interest per year over 5 years.

Not including Federal capital gains taxes on sale of any company shares that he liquidates, or California income taxes, likely at the 14.4% tax bracket.

Or he could try and find a bank to lend him 300M in cash every year, secured against his equity stake. Anyone?

I would say yes! 3.2 is from before when they split race and role. In 3.2 you could play as an Elf; in more recent versions, you can play as an Elf of many different roles. 3.2 is also before they introduced magic proficiencies, so you couldn't get better at classes of magic individually. And 5.0 greatly improves Gehennom, in many versions of Nethack it's the least interesting part of the game, an interminable slog through 20+ maze levels where most of the monsters don't post you much threat, until you finally get down to the bottom of the dungeon and the fun picks back up again....

I'd say Hack is harder than Nethack. What matters is how much of the game you know. In Hack, if you have bad luck you are basically screwed; in Nethack, prayer can get you out of lots of trouble, you just have to know it's there to rely upon and not to use it too often.\

Nethack also has many ways you can use resources, even bad resources, to survive. Take bad or useless potions and dip them in water to dilute them into plain water, get them blessed to make them all into holy water, then use that to bless your other items to get much more use out of them. Wash scrolls to make them into scrolls of blank paper, then use a magic marker to write the scrolls you want on them. Combine these two tricks to make blessed scrolls of identify and find out what many, if not all, of your items are. Drop extra rings down sinks for clues as to what they are. Use wands to write on the ground for clues to their identities.

This is a different play philosophy from Hack, where in large part you take what the game gives you and do the best you can with it.

Dragons have tough skin and also count as Large creatures, so most classes will have difficulty. But Monks are made specifically to fight unarmed. There is a conduct for playing without ever having hit with a wielded weapon, and people have earned every conduct, so, I'd say yes. I don't know what you mean by "the" dragon though; Nethack has no shortage of the scaly beasties.

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