u/GoofusMcGhee

I'm listening to Beevor's "Stalingrad" and he mentions the Zaitsev-König "sniper duel," which was also a feature of the Enemy at the Gates movie (which I'm aware is not great history). Supposedly Soviet sniper ace Zaitsev fought a days-long duel with Major Erwin König, schoolmaster of the German sniper school, defeating him.

But Wikipedia seems to cast doubt on whether he ever existed. I would think someone so prominent as König would have left some kind of paper trail, though I understand German records are fragmented. But between fellow soldiers, relatives, the snipers he would have trained as the "sniper school director," etc. there should be more history of him.

Supposedly a daughter confronted Zaitsev in post-war Germany, but her name is not recorded so that episode might be an invention or the woman may have been inventing this story.

It seems Zaitsev is the only real source for König's existence. I'm inclined to think he's an invention of Zaitsev or Soviet propagandists or perhaps with the latter amplifying the former's romanticizing of his wartime role. Zaitsev would hardly be the first veteran to embellish war yarns. Beevor notes that during the battle of Stalingrad, the role of snipers themselves became almost mythical and very romanticized.

Your thoughts?

The guidebook famously opens with "Recently, you have begun to find yourself unfulfilled and distant in your daily occupation...

...In the morning you awake, collect your belongings, and set off for the dungeon.  After several days of uneventful travel, you see the ancient ruins that mark the entrance to the Mazes of Menace.  It is late at night, so you make camp at the entrance and spend the night sleeping under the open skies.  In the morning, you gather your gear, eat what may be your last meal outside, and enter the dungeon... "

Now granted, the guidebook is not Nethack per se, and it does kind of contrast with the actual opening of the game, which states something like "You, a newly trained Tenderfoot, have been heralded from birth as the instrument of Mars."

But let's go with the guidebook, just for grins. If you were to represent yourself as closely as possible in the game, which class / align would you be? I'm taking it for granted everyone reading this is human.

I'm guessing there are no barbarians, cavemen, samurai, or valkyries among us, though I suppose all of those could be meant more poetically. If there is some royalty who plays, you could be a knight. If there are some religious, priests or monks.

I think if someone analyzed my life they'd conclude I'm either a (techno-) wizard, or a ranger (of very limited recreational ability!) Since advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and I'm a better technologist than I am a backpacker, I'll go with wizard.

Alignment is trickier, since this is the old original D&D system where "lawful" does not equate to "good" and "chaotic" does not equate to evil. The wiki has a lot to say on Alignment. I think I'm probably neutral.

So, neutral Wizard. How about you?

Long-time SublimeText user looking to switch, but I think there's something about Zed I'm not grokking.

I open Zed and then File->Open a file ("file1.txt").

Then I File->Open a file ("file2.txt"). Now file2.txt is open in Zed, but file1.txt is not.

I hit command-N and get a new tab. I type some things. Then I File->Open a file ("file3.txt"). Now other tabs go away and I have file3.txt open. Sadly, the new text I was typing in that tab is lost.

I'm looking for some behavior more like Sublime Text where I can open various files in their own tabs, and those tabs are never closed unless I specifically tell Zed to close them. The files are often in various folders around the filesystem. I'm not really using Zed as an IDE.

Did I somehow activate some mode I don't understand? Or is there some core idea of Zed I'm not understanding? I don't generally use projects.

Likewise, it would be nice if File->Open Recent showed recently opened files. It shows nothing.

Thanks for any advice!

My mother (85) is in AL. She's at a point where we probably need to look at memory care.

• She has mobility challenges - she's moved from cane to rollator to front-wheeled to edge of needing a wheelchair - in about 8 months.
• MMSE was 16 earlier this year and doc (NP) says there isn't much point in doing further ones but she is worse now.
• She is incontinent often
• She's has fallen 5 times this month
• She is completely incapable of remembering her neckstrap call button (I explained it 3x in the span of 20 minutes and afterwards, she was still asking "what button are you referring to?")
• She's starting to slip into using catch-phrases and often has strange explanations of what's going on around her sometimes.

Mercifully, she's usually in a good mood and never complains about anything.

The AL facility (which has issues but is only 1/2 mile from our house) does have MC, with a ratio of 3 caregivers for 18 patients. I visited it and it's...pretty sad. They keep the patients mostly in a large communal room, so you have a bunch of people sitting around staring into space with a TV going.

My mother is a very private person, so that would be a big change in and of itself, but regardless, it felt rather grim.

The alternative is an Adult Foster Home. However...

• I looked a couple near me and some of the state of Oregon complaints records from inspections and resident interviews are just...appalling. Bathroom accidents not cleaned up, people fighting, theft, residents escaping, etc. Admittedly I only read a couple random ones so maybe I just got unlucky.
• I'm sure there are good ones (?) but the process of sifting through all of them seems very daunting. When we were shopping for AL, there were web sites, reviews, tours, etc. When looking at AFHs, it's just a name and a phone number.

There's also dedicated memory care facilities. We have a call in to talk to a social worker.

This is probably an impossible question but...any advice on the next stage for mom? I've read that once someone is put in MC, they often decline pretty rapidly. At the moment, she spends 90% of her day watching TV or reading religious magazines. I'm just completely terrified of moving her into a bad environment for her final stage.

In the last 2 years, I've facilitated a move out of her house (after 60 years) to IL, then cross-country to AL, and now on to yet another transition...gaaaaah...