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Proprietary or not, tinkering help you develop an intuition of what might be wrong.


Meanwhile, the article is clear about how proprietary code absolutely prevented the author from understanding why the Wifi and Bluetooth failed with specific apps.


Yeah I mean, whoever made the original statement is just not an OS engineer.


> just not an OS engineer.

Or not just an engineer


I know plenty of people with stamps who don't care to fiddle with their OS or change their own oil. People who work on putting things in orbit and beyond, people who build bridges, people who design undersea robots and airplanes. They're most definitely engineers.


Yeah fair.


Nah I can believe they'd be a chemical engineer or even a software developer that writes iOS apps or something like that.


I wanted to say steam/power engineer, but even they understand the value of tinkering.




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