This isn't about the ability to have children ya clown. It's about thwe willingness.

Exactly. You don't go looking for peaches in a pineapple field.

Okay......why exactly did you make the decision to buy a framework? Because it's certainly not for quality or value. Was it for virtue signaling?

Indeed, most of the tickets aren't so much that a middle class type can't afford the occasional one. One doesnt need to be a billionaire to not care.

The heavy lifting is you connecting 'if paid' to the statement you quoted.

Picture a Musk, Gates, or Bezos type. They have virtually unlimited ability to speed or run red lights for what is to them a trivial sum.

So you paid twice as much for worse build quality than a thinkpad, so that at some point in the future you can "upgrade" it with similarly marked up parts that will cost as much as just buying another new thinkpad.

I'm not concerned about any of that kind of thing: writing code commercially is not art. What I am concerned with is the amount of unmaintainable code being generated by AI and people handwaving this away with future-looking statements like "real soon now it will be able to ".

In production? Pretty much yes. Packages are kept in a Sattelite repo and various manifests for machines are are made. Those are tested with the production software. Any changes between versions/manifests are scrutinized.

So, yes, it could have been "any OS repo, open or closed source, using this method" but if that's the method you you for installing deps in prod you're a hack job and your company is basically committing engineering malpractice.

What if? In my experience AI generated code is primarily sloppy, lengthy python that includes so many libraries no single person could know all of them well enough to peoperly review the code.

That's because people willing to pay to take a toll road to save speed can always avoid said toll road if they actually have to follow the speed limit on it. That eliminates the revenue the toll road gets, costing them money.
Florida had this situation with a new toll road that runs parallel to the highway around Orlando. Cops were running speed traps there. They were quickly banned because they noted it was killing the number of people taking the road, costing them far more in revenue.

Perhaps, but camera systems without the officer don't actually issue "tickets" that carry points. They issue "citations" that show up nowhere if paid.

To paraphrase a general, by ensuring they do die for their cause, and we don't.
Our job isn't to die for our country, but to make them die for theirs.

That said, it's expensive and hard, and best avoided when possible.

Same reason for including private equity. They've been selling to each other to pump the valuations for long enough that it's time to find some retail bagholders to keep this bullbe from popping.

No dealerships doesn't mean there won't be model showrooms, like what already exist today for several small brands where they are not allowed to sell direct. This is a problem that was solved over a decade ago.

So you bought a used car without the ability to inspect it yourself and also didn't get a pre purchase inspection and.........you're saying that was a really stupid, careless thing to do? Yeah, I agree.