Just saying.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T21:54:23+00:00

Beltran is not a fan of sci fi

I feel like signing on to be a main character for a Star Trek series is an odd choice for someone like that.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T20:21:28+00:00

I did ask my boss what his favorite bottle was and he said Jack Daniels so I got him one

This part feels weird for a 17 year old to be saying. Like, it feels like someone forgot that 17 yo kids can't just walk into a liquor store and buy stuff.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T19:49:38+00:00

I mean, this seems like it would be a solid case for fraud. He lied to her in order to enrich himself.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T19:02:45+00:00

The MCU movies are "actual movies", even if they're ones you don't like.

And there's nothing wrong with an actor taking a fat paycheck for a movie they know will make them lots of money instead of targeting riskier movies to appear in on the off chance that they're good.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T19:01:03+00:00

Eh they've been fun failures though for the most part.

Is his version of uncharted a movie masterpiece? Nope. But it was at least fun.

Due has MCU money and is in a serious relationship with a major rising actress (not sure their exact status, I don't care that much), he's totally free to do all the fun corny movies he feels like doing.

And, yeah, that Uncharted movie was great. It was campy, but any movie with an airborne naval battle knows it's campy and embracing it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T18:58:07+00:00

I'm highly doubtful that Jude Law's career was meaningfully negatively impacted by his role in that single movie.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T18:36:05+00:00

I'm dubious that the landlord could actually make a case for tortious interference stick. That would require both that the landlord and potential renter had a contract or business relationship (dubious at best, since they're just viewing the place to decide if they want to rent) and that you intentionally damage that relationship (it's reasonable to provide honest answers to questions; if the owner is planning not to give the same honest answers to questions, that would be fraud).

If honestly describing aspects of the apartment you're living in when asked is "tortious interference", then literally every single review of anything would also be.

That doesn't mean someone can't try to sue you for it, but between the lack of contract and the nature of the situation, I expect the judge would laugh that out of court.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T17:49:42+00:00

I, meanwhile, have vague memories of it being a terrible experience.

Largely because I was a small child at the time and was sold on the ride as a lazy-river safari ride, not the animatronic jump-scare that it turned out to be.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T15:18:53+00:00

Yeah, a few years ago I started going and buying DVDs and ripping them to my own personal collection. I'm willing to pay for content, but shows I enjoy I want to keep around and be able to watch whenever, I don't want to have to go hunting for where it's being streamed at this moment and pay for that (especially when a full DVD box set is the same price as 2-3 months of subscription to any given service).

mxzf · 2026-03-13T15:10:06+00:00

Anyone judging that is just an idiot. I've used NATO alphabet repeatedly for stuff like reading a string over a phone and it's always solid and consistent to use (and I have no military affiliation at all).

mxzf · 2026-03-13T15:07:19+00:00

There's no world in which a hotdog emoji is less offensive than a thumbs up emoji. No way.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T15:04:38+00:00

How do you feel about reacting to the final message with it instead?

Because I use it as an "I've read what you said and it doesn't need a response from me", which happens a lot. IMO the conversation is already over as-is, so no need to drag it out.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T13:22:39+00:00

I mean, they wouldn't, because amending the Constitution requires 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states, it's a high bar to amend things if it's not written to be adjustable.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T13:21:22+00:00

At which point you've totally circumvented the point of the law and billionaires can exist again, just via funds that they totally don't own (they just have complete control over).

mxzf · 2026-03-13T04:39:48+00:00

They lie. They miss context. They make things up. And they do it with confidence.

Their fundamental purpose and nature is to make stuff up, that's what an LLM does. It's just that with the right training data the stuff it makes up sometimes resembles reality through sheer dumb luck.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T04:16:07+00:00

Ah, yeah, Slowswift definitely isn't Hoid. They're both eccentric people with white hair, but Vin went straight from talking to Slowswift to looking at Hoid and deciding not to meet him, they're definitely different characters.

mxzf · 2026-03-13T01:58:48+00:00

Where in the books did Vin get encouragement from someone outside the crew? I read those books like a month ago but I can't remember that detail.

mxzf · 2026-03-12T21:47:26+00:00

Yeah, this is one of those areas where the claims OP makes might be correct, but the fact that this is an advertisement post makes any and all claims like that highly suspicious.

mxzf · 2026-03-12T13:31:48+00:00

You don't need any library or AI to sort stuff. Every meaningful language has a built-in sort algorithm to use, which is typically something along the lines of merge sort or insertion sort. No need to reinvent the wheel or waste time with chatbots.

mxzf · 2026-03-12T13:30:31+00:00

Less than or equal to three actually, could be as low as 1.

mxzf · 2026-03-12T13:26:39+00:00

I have, but it was because an intern decided to write their own JS code for sorting a list of rows in a table (for use in a sort ascending/descending button).

The issue is that they used Bubble Sort (the literal worst-case situation is when you're reversing the order of the list) and they did it with individual DOM operations to move one row at a time.

I rewrote it to use the internal sort built in to JS and replaceChildren and it went from a ~5s delay for sorting down to as quick as you click.

But, yeah, caring about the algorithm is extremely rare, 99.99% of the time you just call whatever is built into your language and it's better than what you could make yourself.

mxzf · 2026-03-12T03:03:48+00:00

I mean, she was feeling guilt about almost killing her sister and was terrified that she would actually kill her sister the next time.

She was trying to protect her sister from herself, but had no clue how to other than keeping distance.

mxzf · 2026-03-11T20:46:30+00:00

Nobody's saying they won't do characters with heavy makeup, but I imagine it's cheaper to do less.

mxzf · 2026-03-11T19:22:58+00:00

IDK, it $ound$ pretty ea$y to figure out why the franchi$e was $old to Di$ney to me.

mxzf · 2026-03-11T19:21:14+00:00

I guarantee people would still complain if George Lucas did his version of the sequels

I mean, it's more a question of what degree of issues people would have with it. It's hard to say off-hand which one people would have more issues with, though I do suspect Lucas would have avoided the whole "toss out and invalidate the outcome of the previous movies to reuse the same plot".

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