I had "DHL" and was wondering who let them organise ID in the USA. Yet, since I believed that, I did appear to have found this idea plausible.
Department of Homeland Security makes a lot more sense, but as a non-American, is not an acronym I am familiar with.
As a continental European, I do find the ick Anglo countries have with ID weird. Especially if you throw ICE and immigrants into the mix, the whole thing seems designed for collateral damage.
Interesting -- I'm a Brit and have that ick, I can't really understand people who don't: that agents of the state can demand "papers please" fills me with foreboding, particularly given recent European history. That in the UK you can reply "no thanks" and walk away is one of few things I like about the place.
Did I write that I hated somebody? I don't think I wrote anything of the sort. I can't say my thoughts about Bjarne for example rise to hatred, nobody should have humoured him in the 1980s, but we're not talking about what happened when rich idiots humoured The Donald or something as serious as that - nobody died, we just got a lot of software written in a crap programming language, I've had worse Thursdays.
And although of course things could have been better they could also have been worse. C++ drinks too much OO kool aid, but hey it introduced lots of people to generic programming which is good.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you think that C++ programmers actually want to write "broken garbage", so when you say "millions of people want broken garbage" the implication is that a) they do write broken garbage, b) they're so stupid don't even know that is what they are doing. I can't really read else than in the same vein as an apartheid-era white South-African statement starting "all blacks ...", i.e., an insult to a large class of people simply for their membership in that class. Maybe that's not your intent, but that's how it reads to me, sorry.
I can't help how you feel about it, but what I see is people who supposedly "don't want" something to happen and yet take little or no concrete action to prevent it. When it comes to their memory safety problem WG21 talks about how they want to address the problem but won't take appropriate steps. Years of conference talks about safety, and C++ 26 is going to... encourage tool vendors to diagnose some common mistakes. Safe C++ was rejected, and indeed Herb had WG21 write a new "standing rule" which imagines into existence principles for the language that in effect forbid any such change.
Think Republican Senators offering thoughts and prayers after a school shooting, rather than Apartheid era white South Africans.
Are you seriously comparing discrimination based on factors noone can control to a group literally defined by a choice they made? And you think that's a good faith argument?
Considering how many people will defend C++ compilers bending over backwards to exploit some accidental undefined behaviour with "but it's fast though" then yeah, that's not an inaccurate assessment.
I've never had one for exactly this reason, but find that in the supermarkets, the person behind me is generally more than happy to lend their card to me: I get the discount, they get the points, win-win!
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