Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
by AshleyGrant on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:28AM
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And in aircraft design, that is not what unstable means.
Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
by hpaavola on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:19PM
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Well, this is hacker news.
Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
by FabHK on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:54PM
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Debian is totally unstable: when I throw the server out of the window and it experiences an upset around the pitch axis, it does not tend to revert to the original flight attitude without control input.
Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
by hpaavola on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:55PM
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Was there a point in this message? I did not get it.
Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
by FabHK on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:34AM
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Yes, I should've been more explicit: It's evidently problematic to use jargon from one field in another field. "Stable" has a common sense definition, and has a meaning in IT that's fairly close to that common sense definition, but has a meaning in aerodynamics that's much more specific. A lot of confusion in this thread resulted from a mixing of those definitions. That's the point I tried to humorously make above.
In that case we just disagree on what unstable means. Where I come from it means something that suddenly stops working and that thing happens too often. The plane is grounded because it suddenly stopped working few times. I call that unstable. Like Windows Vista with old GPU drivers was unstable.