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Programmer Humor @programming.dev armchair_progamer @programming.dev 3w ago

“C has known memory footguns. C++, due to its complexity, has footnukes.” - Hacker News comment

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The quote is a derivative of something Bjarne Stroustrup said himself¹.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off

1: https://www.stroustrup.com/quotes.html
- A citation with a superscript number reference in a comment? Impressive.
- Makes sense C++ makes everything harder
I need a fact check on that first image please
- That is real https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3268091/elderly-woman-china-defies-death-after-using-hand-grenade-hammer-20-years
- https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3268091/elderly-woman-china-defies-death-after-using-hand-grenade-hammer-20-years
  
  https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2024/06/27/elderly-woman-in-china-defies-death-after-using-hand-grenade-as-hammer-for-20-years-stuns-mainland-police-and-social-media
  
  Found these two articles, seems legit
- You're more cautious with a meme than that lady with a grenade.
- Here is a start for you: https://www.msn.com/ko-kr/news/world/20년간-수류탄을-망치로-써온-할머니에-中-화들짝/ar-BB1oYj9a
  
  It's all Korean URL encoding in that link, btw. Here is a screenshot anyway.
  
  Thanks for including the screenshot!
pretty much any software made by @[email protected] is a ticking time bomb regardless of language tbh
Was it a sudden realization? Did it make a big big noise?

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