• saltnotsugar@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You know someone’s toddler took the controls for the platypus design.
    “I want a duck…but you can milk it. Poison! Like bad bad sting. BEAAAVER tail.”

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    7 months ago

    When you add a bunch of libs to the project but only use one function from each.

  • chaogomu@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Life has convergent evolution. It’s like when devs on different branches solve the same problem over and over again without telling anyone else or merging back to main so no one else has to code the same shit over and over again.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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      7 months ago

      Decades old code that only there because if removed it breaks everything, but does nothing otherwise.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    Evolutionary trees pretty much look like a git tree in a large company: always changing requirements, only patches, rarely less code. It somewhat works and nobody understands why.

    I wanted to say that at least the programming language is always the same, but it’s actually three.

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      7 months ago

      In both cases it works because that’s the only requirement. It doesn’t need to be elegant or make sense or even last very long

  • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    you know how all mammals were once fish? Well some of those intermediary species still survive to this day, like the lovable platypus :3 Also marsupials aka pouch things—one of those intermediary steps from layings like fish to incubating them in a placenta.

  • KTJ_microbes@mander.xyz
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    7 months ago

    LOL how about horizontal gene transfer, and Eukaryotes being a merger of Alphaproteobacteria (and cyanobacteria for the photosynthesizing ones) and Asgard Archea.

    It’s all interconnected, intertwined, nature man! Holobionts and shit.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    7 months ago

    When I first saw a platypus in person I was amazed by how small they where. They seem bigger in most photos.