Re: I want the phone company back!

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b>
 > Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:11:28 -0700
 >
 > Then there's the discount for autopay.  New feature with these new plans:
 > you get the $7.50/month discount only if you autopay with your bank
 > account or with their credit card, not other cards.  So, fine, I switched
 > to my bank account.  But they don't only want the routing and account
 > numbers; they want me to enable data sharing with my bank so they have
 > access to my balance, etc.  Grrr.  But I gave in; life's too short for
 > this hassle.

I went through the laborious process of opening a separate bank account
for only paying ACH-based bills.  It took two weeks to do it, but at least
I didn't have to go through the USA PATRIOT Act bullshit for the separate
account.

 > Speaking of unconscious charm, Dan has discovered a high school sophomore
 > C++ wizard who's enrolled in  summer session, and I'm having
 > dinner with him tonight.  My plan is to cure him of C++ and get him to
 > implement Prolog in Snap!.

I've been seeing a lot of anti-C++ Youtube videos popping up lately.  Some
of the arguments are against the "C" part of "C++", and I could definitely
see some problems with that, but they are not nearly as serious as the
"C++" parts, especially the horrible syntactic sugar which has been added
in the last 20 years.

(Interestingly, I've also been seeing a lot of anti-Rust videos as well.
I don't think we're going back to LISP Machines any time soon, but I'm not
sure how the adopting of Rust into the Linux kernel is going to work out
in the long term.)