There is an existing infrastructure for ticketing by license plate, payment processing, collection, etc.

You’re describing changes to the law, which require a bunch of procedural hurdles. It’s much easier for the DMV to just promulgate new rules that tap into existing infrastructure, as they did here.

Also, how is the government supposed to assess whether these violations are intentional or not? Tickets are strict liability (you get the ticket if you do it regardless of intent, reasons, etc.) because it is easy to administer.

Hope this helps.

I don’t doubt that they exist, I’m just struggling to think of a popular example.

This isn’t an sqlite-specific point, although sqlite often runs faster on a single machine because local sockets have some overhead.

It seems like it mostly comes down to how likely it is that the site will grow large enough to need a networked database. And people probably wildly overestimate this. HackerNews, for example, runs on a single computer.

Is that actually taken into account in a taking? I haven’t thought about this stuff in decades, and I know there is some weirdness with regulatory takings.

Another way to frame the question: if the government just changes the water rights per acre, does that itself trigger the takings clause?

If you were czar of the universe and could start from scratch, could a better scripting language be created? Sure. But that’s not the fact pattern, and Python isn’t bad enough at what it does to warrant starting over.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin

You didn’t experience a slowdown at the height of the recession circa 2008?

> the most important thing was to find xin fu in life, not to live your life in accordance to the expectations of anyone else

That is why I write all of my code in uncommented C. Your expectation of a maintainable program that doesn’t segfault all the time is just your expectation.

> he wasted his entire life, my mom said

In some ways, she did too by listening to her mother and not just getting divorced as she had wanted to. But I recognize that going against your family’s core beliefs is easier said than done.

I also wonder if most junior C++ programmers can shortcut a bit by just using common patterns. Articles like these I’ve always thought were geared more toward experienced programmers who are intellectually curious about the inner workings of the language.

You could even do this over UDP if you really wanted, just merging a bunch of 1200-byte records together

I think this is the biggest factor if it applies. If we want to be utilitarian about it, the benefit to your kids of having the same school to attend, same neighbors to play with, same room to call their own and paint the walls as they desire, etc. just dwarfs everything else. Kids just do well in stable, predictable home environments.