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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: We have a new standard! Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:40:36 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: <86wmfhbexa.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86o70sbol2.fsf@linuxsc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:40:38 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="73f7e020ca92f621b66e1ee9786e2a0e"; logging-data="2540623"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/rT9fSMGIZi7XOh5OV/xfO9WWyNGHQIsU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:qH66fdbTbypzE8ABhS38eCrv7Ik= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3120 On 12/31/2024 1:54 AM, David Brown wrote: > On 31/12/2024 02:58, Tim Rentsch wrote: >> "Chris M. Thomasson" writes: >> >>> On 12/30/2024 3:14 AM, Tim Rentsch wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>>> Personal opinion:  the comments from David Brown do more harm than >>>> good here.  At some level he is just a guilty of giving a preachy >>>> opinion as the person he is responding to.  It seems likely that >>>> his statements will exacerbate the offending behavior rather than >>>> diminish it. >>> >>> I had some arguments with David Brown.  Everything was rather >>> cordial.  No flame wars, or anything like that. > > (I have been less than cordial with some people - sometimes to an extent > that I later regretted.) Afaict, it basically goes up to, shit happens? The fact that you regretted some of them means you are a good person at heart. I think, perhaps, that we all have been there wrt regretting something on the Wild World of Usenet. ;^) Happy New Year, David! :^) >> Please note that my comments were not about David Brown in general >> but only about the statements of his that were quoted in the posting >> I was responding to.  What I said was not meant as a general >> statement, only a specific one, and was not meant about David as a >> person but only about the (quoted) words that appeared in the >> posting. > > And that's all fine by me. > > > """ > Well, sir, my friends praise me and in so doing make a fool of me, while > my enemies tell me plainly that I am a fool. Therefore my enemies help > me gain knowledge of myself, while my friends deceive me. > """ > > Twelfth Night > > > > (Not that I view Tim as "my enemy" in any sense!) Indeed.