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- Centigonal 11mo agoGeneral aviation (and especially experimental light aircraft) is not a particularly safe hobby. This pilot literally put his life in the hands of a 3D printed part someone sold him at an airshow. Pilots can and do "brick" their planes as a result of "innovative" approaches to repairs, upgrades, and maintenance. Luckily, much of the time these errors are caught before the plane gets off the ground.
- phoronixrly 11mo agoGuy, the person who bet his life on a part with questionable quality is a moron. People who choose an OS are not betting their life on their OS booting up. Do you not grasp the difference in stakes?
- Centigonal 11mo agomort96 explained my analogy better than I could. Obviously your OS and your plane are not equally risky choices. Regardless, there exist communities of people who like to heavily customize either of those things.
- crumpled 11mo agoI don't think anyone is struggling with grasping the difference in stakes. The stakes are different, the size and shape are different, there are a lot of things different. You don't make analogies out of things that are the same, that's one of the hallmarks of an analogy.
- mort96 11mo agoThe analogy they weren't making: "This is life critical, just like Arch Linux" The analogy they were making: "This is a commonly home-built and heavily customized hacker aircraft, just like Arch Linux is a commonly home-built and heavily customized hacker Linux distro" Two things can be analogous in one aspect while being disanalogous in another aspect. That doesn't make the analogy invalid.
- onraglanroad 11mo agoClearly you have a boring life. Dial it up a bit!
- tomhow 11mo agoPlease don't post shallow dismissals on HN. We're aiming for a higher standard of discussion here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html