So you are saying California did this to themselves.

But they obviously should not just stop in traffic that will already be congested enough from the lack of lights. A human would at least shoulder check and pull over safely.

So then why are they on public roads?

And having the traffic lights out is a very obvious edge case.

So this is what they mean when they say that rust forces you to do contortions to do simple things.

Using a comprehension and introspection you can convert a dict (HashMap) into an object and back again, each with one line. When they are useful they are very useful.

I know C doesn't have smart pointers. Because C programmers usually know how to manage memory. Doesn't mean one couldn't be made for c, and many devs do makes their own.

Why? Str has no meaning in C++.

Hardened C would force you to use smart pointers except in a section with a compiler directive #UNSAFE when you must use raw pointers. Then you basically have the same effect as rust.

But I'm not asking why &. I get that. I'm asking why str and String?

I don't know Rust, I just had to use AI to see what the difference was between &str and String. To be fair, it seems unnecessarily complex that they are both types, yet in totally different formats. Why &str? Why not at least String and &String to make it more consistent. Or DynamicString and LiteralString. The standard inconsistency would drive me nuts too. Seems not well thought out.

It's funny how you bash MATE for looking like it came from a time capsule but then you praise XFCE which has no modern features at all.

Yes congress is supposed to set tariffs as well. The government doesn't waste money, Musk has proven that. I'm not sure what the problem is with having a school board in each state. Every state has different needs. Different levels of poverty, different availability of staff, different shootings, etc. I think you are vastly underestimating the complexity of running schools.

So you advocate that scientific institutions ignore science that you don't like? Have you taken any steps to disprove this science?

Anyone who is willing to sacrifice any and all government services that they pay taxes for is pretty stupid. Too stupid to understand that their lives are comfortable because of the government and Trump is taking it all away. Maybe entitlement is the word. Is there a word that describes mind boggingly entitled?