I’d quite like it if build quality were better than that for which China has become a byname tho’. I like my shit to last at least a decade

Yeah I mean you can just reskin Debian. Depends what you’re trying to do tho’.

Not really. Big different between programs and systems. Saying ‘good at doing teh codez’ is just one set of skills is nonsense. And being a structural engineer is not sufficient to build a skyscraper anyway. In the immortal words of Le Corbusier, they’re machines for living in. Which is why architect is a different career from structural engineer and both get involved. Your exanple undermines your own point.

You don’t need to be able to build stable functional software to be a hacker. They’re kinda polar opposites

Either people end up dead and yet it’s still somehow a nothing burger or we don’t even make it that far

Haven’t you seen RoboCop? That’s like half the plots

Give it a few more years. A browser is a complicated bit of kit!

Well my take on it is pretty 1-dimensional tbh

Fair

You sound like you’re talking about application run performance. That shouldn’t be noticeably different. Startup and application load time tend to be where the gains are.

William Blake would’ve agreed, although I forget the relevant passages.

Accurate

Buddy, what is natural about me, a person who has never met you, talking to you, a person I have never met. How the hell doss that make any sense. Fuckin’ superpowers m8. All up in this gadget.

Yeah but whose money?