Merci beaucoup!

NIH (Not Invented Here) is absolutely the downfall of many tech companies. Code costs constant money to maintain - it may sound illogical since it’s unchanged from the day it was written but it absolutely is the case.

In most of the developed world there is a mandatory level of severance (and companies can obviously exceed that if they want but the base amount is guaranteed). In BC it’s one week after three months (the probationary period) a second week after one year and then one additional week per year up to a maximum of eight weeks.

Don’t let that fear cow you into accepting marginal raises or career stagnation (assuming you’re not happy at your current level). Severance (outside the US) is usually generous enough to skate into your next opportunity and, tbh, working in constant fear is fucking awful for your mental health.

As someone who writes high throughput PHP code I can confirm that it’s much more about technique than language capabilities (though in an embedded setting things with dynamic GCs are simply unusable unless static memory management can be enabled with a compiler switch).

For most projects you’d be much more rewarded for focusing on tools/framework/libraries available for the different languages (since that’s where most initial effort will go) and then build up any missing functionality as needed ontop of that base.

Most languages can do pretty much anything these days. The technical advantages are much smaller than the impact the right approach will have… it’s one reason that I hold “maintainability” as the most important attribute of a project.

Five minutes after reading this post.

New, it let’s me read the articles that communities downvote because they don’t like the facts of the article.

Having an editor with spell checking makes me deeply sad whenever I’m viewing code.

GitExtensions

I use an excellent GUI that opens a terminal to run the commands you execute in it so that you can review the precise command in case you need to modify it.

You can pry my v4 addresses from my cold dead hands.

Colombia.

Hey, we all love Randy!

Awesome, it’s fucking overdue!

Techno and heavy metal.

I will happily mind your disclaimer but there’s a critical event that really makes this character truly bizarre. He wears the ring and doesn’t give a damn - all of Gandalf, Giladriel, and Sauron himself are affected by the rings. Gandalf and Sauron are possibly on the same “power tier” as Maia (Galadriel is lesser but still psychicly impressive). It’s arguable that Gandalf is a false Maiar and actually an avatar of Manwë but Tom’s nonchalance with the ring likely puts him above the Maia - Tom could be a Vala but it’s really unclear who he’d be (possibly Lórien but its unlikely) due to his relation to Goldberry and disposition … They’re all well known and it’s unlikely they could evade detection in Arda… it’s possible that Tom Bombadill is Illúvatar himself which lets us handwave a lot of issues but that makes Goldberry even more confusing… also everything more powerful than a Maiar is sworn to (or restrained from) interfering in Arda.

Tolkien was a dedicated world builder and also a myth teller and we might just have to accept the unfulfilling explanation that Tom Bombadill is the mysterious guide that defies explanation and that’s all there is to it - his character is completely isolated from the rest of the mythos and this from a nerd who has a detailed lineage of kings for Gondor including the “not at all relevant to the story” kin strife of Castamir… so I reject any claims that Tolkien just “forgot” about Bombadill - the omission of history was clearly intentional.

Anyways, I’ve spouted off like a nerd long enough. It’s an excellent topic to delve into and there are some great hints pointing one way or the other.

Sweatpants and a worn out t-shirt that was always way too big for me.

Not this one. Also I’ve seen it a hundred times on Reddit.

Probably a pretty open ended question and discussion on wtf Tom Bombadill is with another deeply knowledgeable LOTR nerd.

That really depends on what we’re talking about. For most hobbyist sites with community content creation and without DMs blocking isn’t really necessary - you just ban bad users and hand approve new accounts. Moderating the environment so it’s consistent for everyone is usually better than delegating that to individuals since new users would instantly be exposed to the most toxic version of your place.

I also tend to prefer opt in following (like Twitter but without any trending bullshit - just opt in to seeing interesting things without ever needing to block) vs. the more common “hit them with a firehose of content and let them block what they don’t like” approach preferred by people who measure success by “engagement and ad revenue”.

Oh, if your site supports non-public communication (i.e. DMs) you must support blocking because (and I understand you might not realize this if you’re a dude) if you admit to having boobs on the internet you will receive unsolicited dick pics - it sucks but in large sites it’s fucking inevitable… even if the admins try to stay on top of it one bad actor will DM like 500 people and it’s deeply fucking abusive.

Oh nice! As an artist’s release or did Furi put out an OST vinyl?