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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The point is it's a fragile point of failure, but still very important.

Being a big slab loses that meaning

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

We should then replace that slab in the graphic with a thousand barely-balanced jenga-style little pegs

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Except redundancy implies stability. The picture works best how it is.