Ah, I'm missing the NetHack bit. I'm not quite *that* stupid.

Interesting that both the other two people who replied to you thought you were more likely to know about NetHack than Moore's Law! I'm sure this says something about somebody involved, but I can't work out what or who :-)

I think it says something about the ubiquity of that piece of NetHack idiom in these parts (such that even I recognise it) that it is inconceivable that anyone should not know of it.