Jesus can you relax? Sometimes statements aren't meant to be taken exactly literally. I don't mean to be hateful but what do you get out of being needlessly pedantic? Obviously there's more time actually spent on modern airliners. OP is using it as an analogy to show that it's a complicated process, and isn't saying that it's scientifically 1 to 1 exact.

It's this type of comment that makes people be needlessly careful on this site more than any other. When you know there is someone just waiting to correct you when you use a simple turn of phrase.

Your parent comment just seems to make their point and it's technically correct, but might have missed the nuance. All people in this conversation seemed fine.

Are you sure that the following doesn't apply to your own comment?

> It's this type of comment that makes people be needlessly careful on this site more than any other.

Maybe the person is on the spectrum or something and has trouble with understanding nuances and figurative language, who knows.

You’re in the wrong place. :)

If we're really going to get technical, the OP was not wrong - the two efforts are comparable.

Your move. :-D

hahah touché !

So you actually enjoy being needlessly pedantic.

I mean this will all due respect; you need to interact face to face with people more. Learning how to talk to people like a human in a space where you can see how they react will help with:

>You cannot reasonably expect me to discern with 100% success rate between ignorance, software developer hubris and exaggeration ?

And this:

>I'm not willing to take the risk of letting someone get away with such a comment if they really believe it ;)

You know you don't win anything here, right? The score is made up and the points don't matter.

Letting your patronising ad hominem fly by, do you really think people behave the same in hackernews and in real life ?

Or that asynchronous written communication is the same with in person conversations ?

Anyway, I will stop replying now. You have brought this way off topic.

Oh yeah, I should clarify: I didn't mean that building this model was comparable to building an actual airliner. But I do think it's comparable to building, say, an RV-14 (https://www.vansaircraft.com/rv-14/).