Vilian's comments

On: Egoless Engineering

[Vilian]

Nah, it's usually luck and robbing someone else work, windows apple Facebook etc

[bryanrasmussen → Vilian]

I'm going to say it is efficiency and the ability to implement ideas well, even if they are stolen ideas, that account for more of the success for anything else.

I also bet they did come up with some small things here and there themselves, in the process of implementing stolen ideas, because often things become apparent at the moment of implementation.

[agumonkey → bryanrasmussen]

yeah there's always something a bit special in success, even if they took the idea, you can't just copy paste or you just produce shallow shiny stuff

On: Demystifying Git Submodules

[Vilian]

Perforce wasn't good either, yes bitkeeper was better but hit still managed to make things better, at least for the linux kernel development

On: Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in t...

[Vilian]

Because everyone need to search each existing technology that's they are going to use to see if they are dyeing because of that, and don't forget that don't exist replacement for tires because the incentive don't exist

On: I Stopped Using OpenBSD

[Vilian]

"Let's blame flatpak for softwares that don't support it"

[1oooqooq → Vilian]

best argument I've heard against my points so far. but still, since the other solutions require the same amount of work for isolation, the only real benefit of flatpak is bundling soon-to-be-outdate dependencies.

On: I Stopped Using OpenBSD

[Vilian]

Fedora atomic mentioned let's gooo

[Andrex → Vilian]

It is the future, we're just waiting for everyone else to realize.

On: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

[Vilian]

You all need to learn about employer owned companies, in Brasil it's called cooperativas not sure in english, and that would fix that

On: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

[Vilian]

They can't properly port the office to android today, imagine years ago, also office in cellphone were never great

On: M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS

[Vilian]

Apple don't care to make games compatible, valve can't fix their design decisions why do you think theyare investing so hard in Linux, while Mac is already half the Linux userbase

On: Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege e...

[Vilian]

The only way to not be in "developer mode" is to install something like fedora atomic, then everything is harder lol

On: Speeding up the Rust edit-build-run cycle

[Vilian]

SSH has the argument that they are older than the specification, now cargo, nah, a lot of application that use ssh hardcoded .ssh, cargo don't have that excuse