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Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine by FabHK on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:54PM (#21250931)
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.
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Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine by hpaavola on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:55PM (#21251512)
Was there a point in this message? I did not get it.
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Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine by FabHK on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:34AM (#21256878)
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.
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