Entangled monolith? [was: Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems]

[Chris Bannister]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:29:13AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> (Sorry about double-pumping a couple of posts.)
> 
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU
> <andreimpopescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 06:22:30, Joel Rees wrote:
> >>
> >> Ever seen a ball of yarn?
> >
> > Yep. Disentangled a few. Not a monolith. :)
> 
> Ever considered the molecular structure of obsidian, marble, or granite?
> 
> Pushing the metaphor a bit far, but then so is my question about yarn,
> and so was your question about a monolith being entangled.
> 
> While I'm on the subject, diamond's hardness is derived in great part
> from the interconnection between the crystals. But that's still not
> really the kind of "hardness" we want in an init system.

Mixing one's metaphors and analogies can quickly get you climbing up the
wrong ladder.

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