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[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I miss those days, now it’s all boring version control

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My junior's commit messages look like this image. There's always a way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The Gen Z translation is "Gorilla fr" and "Gorilla frfr"

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

See also: Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)

Ursus is Latin for bear and arctos is Greek for...bear.

It's the bear bear bear!

Bonus fun fact: Arctic means "the place with bears" and Antarctic means "the place without bears"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think you have it the wrong way around. Ursus is Latin and arctos is Greek.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oops! I really should be 💯 on it by now since it's been one of my favorite facts for several years 😄

Anyways, thanks for the correction, I'll go ahead and edit it 😁

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Arctic and Antarctic don't mean anything about actual bears. They are named after the Ursa Major constellation. The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But isn't Ursa Major a bear?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

no, she's a major general in the forces, you hippie!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They are, in fact, the very model of a modern major general!
They have information vegetable, animal and mineral!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Dammit, beat me by 5 minutes! I tip my hat to you, good sir/madam/other 👌🎩

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Lunar's the loony, I'M the hippie!

Would you say that she's the very model of a modern Major General, or would that be going too far?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Yes, it means "The great bear" or "The big bear".

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're fucking kidding me

I'm renaming the arctic from now on

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Is the other species the Western Highland Gorilla(Agorilla gorilla gorilla)?

Edit: it's not, it's the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) Also, here's a graphic for y'all to enjoy:

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

OP missed a good opportunity to title this post "goriginallity"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Disgusted slow clap

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago

If you have a problem with neurodivergent ape namers, please understand that you’re wrong wrong wrong.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For a long time humans were classified as homo sapien sapien

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wait, they took one of our sapiens? The bastards!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Not that I’ve heard of. Now, whether Homo sapiens idaltu is a real separate species from Homo sapiens sapiens is disputed, so there’s a question as to whether the second sapiens actually differentiates us from anything… but I haven’t seen any signs of any consensus against calling ourselves Homo sapiens sapiens to date.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago

"That one to left, that's the most gorilla that can ever gorilla. Look how hard it's gorillaing! Name it accordingly."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The most gorilla gorilla that ever gorillaed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Soon that will be 'to ever have gorrilaed'.

Wikipedia screenshot; "The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is one of two Critically Endangered subspecies of the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)"

^(source)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It's the gorillast of them all

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's Grape Ape. I suspect you wanted Magilla Gorilla

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

10/10 gorilla

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Gorilla gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, gorilla Gorilla gorilla

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ignoring capitalisation you can add as many buffalos as you like and still be parsable. I've only ever heard buffalo used as a verb in this one context, though, so seems a bit forced to me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The scuttlebutt is that buffalo as a verb was only attested very briefly in upstate New York and the Midwest for a brief period of time in the early 1900s. It never spread nationally, and definitely not internationally.

However, checking Google ngrams shows that “he buffaloed” and “was buffaloed”, (to ensure it’s being used idiomatically as a verb and not just in the famous example sentence) emerged in 1900, peaked in the 1950s, but has sustained small but constant use in published print since then. I was actually expecting the ngram to rapidly drop off and never recover… shocked to see that some people still use it as a real phrase.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You're doing the lord's work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The guy who named it was running away from it in a panic at the time. "AH FUCK! GORILLA! GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe at some point we'll have version control for all DNA mapping so each minor change is a commit hash and each major release is a tag

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We do, the major versions have tag releases like mm7, mm8, mm9, etc. as defined by the current build, and minor patch releases too like mm10p14 as new sequences come in.

https://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/mm10/bigZips/

Example, say you have 5 sequences: CAT, ATC, ATCG, CGT, and ATATA.

One way of combining them up together to build a transcriptome is like this:

5 sequences:     ATATA
               CG-T  ATC
             ATCG CAT

  Reference: ATCGATATATC

ATCGATATATC isn't the only solution to these sequences, but as you get more sequences to try and overlap, the more the uncertainty goes down

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Because we biologists fucking SUCK at naming things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

some one tell him about Buffalo

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

That's how gorillas pronounce their name

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

gorilla together stronger

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Reminds me of my classification for different types of water when I was but a wee spud:

  • "water-water" - flat water
  • "water" - anything else
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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