We have human grown slop right from the Boomers' mouths

If I was running a town budget I wouldn't want to insure that shit. If any vendor offered to pay for the vandalism and eat the insurance premiums and deductibles, then that is a huge point in favor of that vendor. Disasterous for their business though.

Not even downsized, more like taking a short break from the regularly scheduled fascist dystopia. The fake concern and imagary compliance is very much temporary. Once the American people lose interest and follow a new distraction, they can install 2X more cameras and 10X more AI

Believing in one person, one vote and the concept of individual liberty is playing right into their hands.

You don't have to engage if you really don't believe it is plausible that something catastrophic could happen by hooking all of our infrastructure, law enforcement, surveillance, and military into statistically-driven software stuck in a feedback loop.

If your code doesn't compile in Rust just wrap it with unsafe { }
Hacking around and doing it the wrong way is much easier than figuring out how to get a complicated data structure through the borrow checker and value** lifetimes.

** I think of Rust values as objects in the general sense.

"review the recent changes, looking for: gaps, flaws, inconsistency, or overtuning."

"oh shit! update the tests and docs too."

The very rich intend on owning serfs. People keep telling me how California is full of far left liberalism, but that is not what I've seen living in Silicon Valley for almost 30 years.

You can use non-standard extensions with C++ today to cover some of what Rust does, like -Wlifetime in C++ for something roughly equivalent to Rust's compile-time borrow checker. UBSan/ASan lets you enforce address and undefined behavior with runtime checks, it's useful and easy to use, but it has a big performance impact so you normally turn it off in production code.

Google Carbon seems promising, but it deviates enough from C++ that it feels like yet another language. But theoretically you will be able to have a project that has a mix of C++ and Carbon and it should Just Work(tm).

Ada / SPARK is an alternative to must of what Rust offers, it's a wildly different approach and not a 1:1 equivalent. But you can make reliable software and even do some formal verification and static analysis on it. It's easier to deal with violation messages from the Ada compiler than with Rust. But it's also a lot more work to put all the contracts and declarations in place (you need multiple files just to make a module, so it's a very different workflow compared to C/C++/Rust).

Coming from Pascal where write/writeln is a special language construct that doesn't work like any other function/procedure, it's refreshing to see that Rust made printing a macro, and that you can roll your own easily. That every macro ends in ! makes a lot of sense in terms of transparency, but it was a confusing little doodad in the syntax to see on my first day.

And I prefer C to C++ or Rust. And I prefer shell script, awk, or Lua to Python. So I'm a bit of an odd duck.

But Rust is pretty good. It's tedious at hell to write anything safely, but you can do it and you can have high confidence in the results. (obviously you still need a full test suite)

Either you get fucked by AI when you lose your job because a CEO that destroys a business by adopting it in a moronic fashion.

Or your fucked by AI because you buy an Elon Musk robot that has that feature that you can unlock from the app store.

I pretty sure everyone hates my old fashioned classical liberalism with a touch of center left view on social democracy, welfare capitalism, mixed economy under a transparent and democratic governance. I'm usually the bad guy for saying that we should embrace and accept people who come from other cultures, but that also there is a dominate culture in this country so raising your children to speak English fluently is vital for their financial success.

My wishy-washy middle of the road politics upsets everyone. But most of those people deserve to be upset all the time.

That's why I don't advertise my politics on my truck. If the wrong people in government found out that I am for a constitutional republic with elected representation and a system of checks and balances with three coequal branches of government, I would surely be labeled as an agitator, a far left radical, and perhaps even a terrorist.

Add the waste to the existing pile off the Farallon Islands.

Excellent fishing there, you can catch rockfish and lingcod most of the season almost as fast as you can take them off the hook. I'm hardly radioactive at all, although I got terribly seasick because the water is usually really rough from the Golden Gate out to the Farallons.