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> Hardly any compared to software. We're talking about 1 change every 20 years versus 1 to 100s of changes per day. That's a huge magnitude of difference. Linu
by JetSpiegel 5y ago
> Hardly any compared to software. We're talking about 1 change every 20 years versus 1 to 100s of changes per day. That's a huge magnitude of difference.
Linux is more akin to a template of all buildings in the world, which are all the Burj al Arab (of course each building is mostly empty, everyone just uses some part of it). If someone in Mongolia finds a wrongly tiled bathroom in room 221B, Linus changes that tile in its template. A few weeks later, all Burj al Arab in the world are torn down and replace with a new one, only slightly better.
- cryptica 5y agoThis sounds terribly inefficient. Why include the tiles as part of the design? Why not instead have a specification about what kinds of tiles are supported and how they should be laid out instead (just an interface)? Then other projects could take care of providing designs for tiles... Tile providers will need to change to adapt any changes to the core layout, but the core layout doesn't need to change often since the fickle parts are not part of it.
- JetSpiegel 5y agoMicro-houses are for the time-rich. Ain't nobody got the time to select all the sub-specifications for a simple house. It's simpler to live in a small corner of the Burj al-Arab, you can piggyback on some work made by the big hoteliers. The metaphors are crumbling...