It's a good time to be kind to your neighbors. No matter their background, they're almost certainly not the ones to be upset at.

Anecdotally, I find that getting Linux on somewhat older or underpowered hardware is always a massive positive. Better performance as well as battery life. I'm not as familiar with modern hardware's relationship to either OS ("OS vs. some flavor of OS based on a similar or same kernel" - I know) with modern hardware. Worth a shot though!

Every supercomputer seems to do quite well with Linux kernels. Probably good enough for Crysis :)

Again, I have never practiced law, so I may be entirely incorrect. Also, I am not defending the witness or their actions.

Any modern Mac is more than capable. I had the baseline M1 Macbook Air that I did work on as well, just to see how that fared. Much better than this machine - 10x the price, but more than 10x the performance. This one is great as a "I don't mind if I break it or lose it" device.

This has already been a problem. There's no real ramifications for it. Even for something like Cloudflare stopping a significant amount of Internet traffic for any amount of time is not (as far as I know) investigated in an independent way. There's nobody that is potentially facing charges. However, with other civil engineering endeavors, there absolutely is. Regular checks, government agencies to audit systems, penalties for causing harm, etc. are expected in those areas.

LLM-generated code is the continuation of the bastardization of software "engineering." Now the situation is not only that nobody is accountable, but a black box cluster of computers is not even reasonably accountable. If someone makes a tragic mistake today, it can be understood who caused it. If "Cloudflare2" comes about which is all (or significantly) generated, whoever is in charge can just throw their hands up and say "hey, I don't know why it did this, and the people that made the system that made this mistake don't know why it did this." It has been and will continue to be very concerning.

Google succeeded because it understood the web better than its competitors. I don't see how any of the players in this space could be so much better that they could take over the market. It seems like these companies will create commodities, which can be profitable, but also incredibly risky for early investors and don't make the profits that would be necessary to justify the evaluations of today.

I know guns are different. There are also an enormous amount of ways to cause harm. I personally think that, ideally, nobody should have guns. That's not the world we live in, though. A political government body should not infringe on privacy of individuals because some small percentage may cause harm.

I can make a sword, grow poisonous plants, isolate toxins, or stab someone with a pencil. I do not. I shouldn't be punished for the idea that other people may.

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Nobody, as far as I know, has any intention of hitting me with their car. Yet, for about a dozen simple reasons, if I'm crossing a walkway, driveway, or whatever with a car also trying to enter the road by driving through the area I'm walking, I often will walk behind the vehicle. People make mistakes. There are blind spots. Maybe they're having an emergency. Maybe they're intoxicated. Or maybe they do want to hit someone with their car.

It's just absurd to think this was appropriate behavior by a seasoned professional. It's not even the appropriate behavior for a reasonably developed child.

So, not only not untrained, he is a trainer.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-agent-jonathan-ross-renee-go...

If I want to look up documentation for jQuery, I don't google the term "jquery" to find their docs. I just go straight to the docs directly. For a lot of situations, people's IDEs do enough work to not google something.

It wouldn't be too much work to understand a bit more about the comparative usage. Looking at recent commits of projects on GitHub would be a good start, but also skewed towards open source projects which doesn't represent all actual usage of course.

Another way would be to look through historic changes to websites to see if there's any changes to the source. It'd be a bit complicated because content changes don't necessarily mean anyone is touching jQuery or React pieces.

This also ignores any sort of private usage, which you won't get any reliable data on, and may represent a significant amount of actual usage.

At the end of the day, there's only so much accurate data available to make accurate conclusions about usage of software libraries that don't phone home. The best data available, as far as I'm concerned, is what I posted earlier - and it's still not perfect and doesn't support any claims other than what the data shows.

As a side note, I don't have any dog in this race. I do think it's interesting to get a better understanding of what pieces of software are being used, by whom, in what amount, etc. but it's difficult.