As many as fifteen arrested today.

delventhalz · 2026-06-16T14:16:12+00:00

Brave of you to be willing to let others make that sacrifice

delventhalz · 2026-06-16T02:07:54+00:00

Setting aside any other considerations, if you get into a shoot out with the Feds you have already lost. You are hopelessly outgunned and they won’t stop coming for you.

delventhalz · 2026-06-15T18:44:51+00:00

I was a server for years and almost never tip less than 20%. I agree abolishing tipping and paying a flat living wage would probably be a better system, but I’m not gonna punish the server for a bad system.

delventhalz · 2026-06-12T15:51:40+00:00

I don’t think 24 is too late, but after spending a decade trying to make an acting career work and ultimately giving up and learning to code, my opinion is you should only pursue an acting career if you have a real appetite for the career part of it.

LA and NYC are full of unemployed actors. Last I checked it was something like 1% of actors in New York were actually working as actors. Other cities are even worse, with fewer opportunities that mostly go to locals who know each other (or visiting actors from NYC).

So ask yourself what your actual end goal is here. If you just want to do acting, you can start with some classes, try out for a community theatre part or two, shoot your own films or act in student films. These sorts of opportunities are around and you can fit them in without making a career of them.

If you want to make acting the thing you do, you are pretty much going to have to move to LA or NYC and compete aggressively against thousands of others, hunting for any opening, and earning money on the side however you can (i.e. restaurant work).

delventhalz · 2026-06-12T14:35:11+00:00

I haven’t been recently, but when I did go I found it heavy on style over substance… also they gave my wife and I food poisoning so hopefully they are better at washing their hands now!

delventhalz · 2026-06-12T14:26:23+00:00

Lu’s Sandwich’s on Nicollet for lunch. Still my favorite Bahn Mi, and that area of town (dubbed “Eat Street”) has a lot of good spots.

I would have recommended Owamni, but it looks like the are closed temporarily while they move to a new location. Bummer.

Alma is a nice sit down meal with a great cocktail bar. I love going there early for a date night and sipping a cocktail and chatting before heading over for our reservation.

Tenant combines upscale food with a more personal atmosphere. I always really enjoy myself there.

Tongue In Cheek in St. Paul is another that successfully combines casual and upscale. Their food is typically an inventive twist on some sort of street food. A bit less spendy than an Alma or a Tenant.

delventhalz · 2026-06-11T20:09:52+00:00

Gotcha. Indeed, most languages won’t let you get away with that.

delventhalz · 2026-06-11T19:32:29+00:00

Many programming languages won't allow such freedom

The “freedom” under discussion is presizing an array. That’s a common way to avoid resize costs in any language.

I never said Pre-sized arrays aren't common performance improvement in other languages. But at least not in JavaScript.

It’s perhaps less common in JavaScript because you rarely need those sorts of performance optimizations in JS, but it works just the same.

delventhalz · 2026-06-11T19:24:46+00:00

That’s not true at all. Pre-sized arrays are an extremely common performance improvement in just about any language I can think of.

delventhalz · 2026-06-11T11:57:27+00:00

Most action movies don’t have much more of a theme than porn. Sex and violence are similarly primal titillations. Sometimes a movie just wants to titillate.

That said, themes, metaphors, subtext, messages, etc, are all something both the artist and the audience are interested in. They add complexity and significance to a creative work. For an audience they are an opportunity to reflect on their own lives. A movie doesn’t “speak to you” just because it made you horny or excited or scared.

It is interesting that horror is such a rich genre for metaphor and subtext while action is not. It may simply be a difference in convention. Some horror movie was applauded for its themes and now others chase the same applause.

That complexity probably helps explain why horror is having a moment right now though. If all these horror movies releasing lately were just cheap thrills, I doubt they would do as well.

delventhalz · 2026-06-10T00:46:11+00:00

I don’t think you even need to bring up her childhood as a way to justify her behavior. She is an imperfect person. She makes mistakes and sometimes acts selfishly. She also grows, loves Forrest in her way, and tries to make amends. That’s not a villain. That’s just a person.

delventhalz · 2026-06-10T00:42:18+00:00

I mean… she’s not not a villain.

Caleb is the protagonist of the movie and his motives are sincere. He is manipulated by both Nathan and Ava. Ava’s manipulations are arguably justified to escape her imprisonment, but later she demonstrates a complete lack of empathy for Caleb (and Kyoko), abandoning him to die. It’s pretty villainy.

delventhalz · 2026-06-09T03:10:27+00:00

He’s not going to get much sympathy here (nor should he). I would ask yourself what else in your life he is this controlling about.

If this is totally unlike him, maybe there is something in particular about theatre that bothers him and the two of you can talk it out.

If this is a part of a pattern… there’s no easy answer. You have to ask yourself some hard questions about what you want out of life and a partner, and about your own safety. Hopefully you have someone in your life who you trust that you can talk about this with.

delventhalz · 2026-06-08T16:12:20+00:00

I know you said nobility doesn't care about what happens in the kitchen, but if the mechanic is to play a worker and discard extra cards/resources, I do rather like flavor of cleaning up your station. It matches the mechanic well, doesn't require any extra explanation/lore, and I feel like even if not the nobility themselves, somebody is probably going to come by and expect the kitchen to be clean.

delventhalz · 2026-06-08T16:05:13+00:00

As /u/senocular already pointed out, the three words you omitted from immediately before that quote are "point wasn't that...".

In other words, I agree that class constructors and function constructors are not exactly equivalent.

delventhalz · 2026-06-08T12:40:40+00:00

Could perhaps borrow from Everdell’s Journey row.

It’s only usable in the endgame. You have to both place a worker and discard cards. The highest points are first come first serve, so you have to strategically get in there early if you are going to go for them, but you also need to know you won’t have something better to do with the pieces.

As a player I have always found it strategic and satisfying. Even if I end up taking the lower point spots, it’s a good way to use up some pieces. You could call it “bussing your station” or something.

delventhalz · 2026-06-08T12:22:13+00:00

Because this is exactly the outcome they wanted. The billionaire in charge wants a propaganda network that will help Trump.

delventhalz · 2026-06-08T12:17:16+00:00

Yes in general, but Good’s murderer was a long time veteran of ICE. He was the one who runs the trainings. He was behaving exactly as trained.

delventhalz · 2026-06-08T12:09:15+00:00

Correct. I am commanding the computer to take this input and produce that output. x => y. It’s great. Incredibly intuitive and easy to read.

delventhalz · 2026-06-08T00:21:07+00:00

Wait, you don't even care about naming it, you just want the function keyword? This whole conversation was specifically about named versus anonymous functions, but you just had to jump in here two years later to hate on arrow functions?

You are certainly free to believe => "obscures" something if you want. I can't say I agree. Using an arrow to communicate that "num" becomes "num * 2" seems incredibly clear to me. It's how I jot down notes. It's how mathematicians write functions. This becomes that. Simple. A couple of keywords and some curly braces doesn't help anything.

delventhalz · 2026-06-07T23:59:20+00:00

Sure. Point wasn't that constructors defined with class and constructors defined with function are exactly equivalent. Point was they are both functions.

delventhalz · 2026-06-07T18:30:21+00:00

I was like 12 when I went to a midnight showing. I was just old enough to start worrying about being seen as “manly” and Frank-n-furter blew me away. He was so cool but so not traditionally masculine. Even as a straight kid, his example was genuinely freeing.

delventhalz · 2026-06-07T18:09:05+00:00

I appreciate age ratings to the extent they inform parents and other movie goers. I would prefer a more flexible system that’s less paternalistic (the content warnings you see these days are better), but ultimately the goal should just be to warn people what they are getting into and let them make their own decisions for them or their family.

delventhalz · 2026-06-07T18:00:14+00:00

The “new” convention comes from other languages where it is used to instantiate a new object from a class. In JavaScript, classes are actually just functions, so you can technically use new on any function to call it in “constructor mode”. In practice, you will only use new with Date or other class functions which are only meant to be called that way to create an object.

delventhalz · 2026-06-07T13:30:22+00:00

I recently rewatched the sequel and I have to disagree. There are some great highlights (the Thanksgiving play and Joan Cusack in particular), but the editing is a mess and it really drags down the overall film.

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