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[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 68 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] JayDee 67 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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:

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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"

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 😁

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] LunarLoony 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

But isn't Ursa Major a bear?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks 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?

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're fucking kidding me

I'm renaming the arctic from now on

[–] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago
[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 45 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

Disgusted slow clap

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago
[–] can@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

10/10 gorilla

[–] iuly20_07@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The most gorilla gorilla that ever gorillaed.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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)

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Shit, here we go again.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 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

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Gorilla gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, gorilla Gorilla gorilla

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For a long time humans were classified as homo sapien sapien

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] xylol@leminal.space 12 points 3 weeks ago

That's how gorillas pronounce their name

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks 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

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago

some one tell him about Buffalo

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

gorilla together stronger

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I was literally thinking of this.

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

Because we biologists fucking SUCK at naming things.

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm guessing you've never heard of Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Zoologists were all "we need the type species of every genus to have the generic epithet" and then someone raised their hand and yelled "what about subspecies?" and they went "screw it, same rule applies for subspecies" and then it turns out the whole thing was a just a prank on Thomas Savage because it's not like anyone was about to rename humans to Homo homo

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's the gorillast of them all

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

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks 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
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