Comment on XZ: Repo maintainer Lasse Collin responding on LKMLparentComments−cbolton2yBut for the comics' physical analogy to work you'd then need to draw it in thousands of dimensions so that any block breaking would bring down the edifice...−TeMPOraL2yOr draw them all bent and straining under the load, implying that any one of them failing will cause a cascade that brings the house down.(Though come to think of it, that would make the analogy less accurate, not more, by implying interdependency where there is none.)
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But for the comics' physical analogy to work you'd then need to draw it in thousands of dimensions so that any block breaking would bring down the edifice...
Or draw them all bent and straining under the load, implying that any one of them failing will cause a cascade that brings the house down.
(Though come to think of it, that would make the analogy less accurate, not more, by implying interdependency where there is none.)