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[–] onnekas@sopuli.xyz 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I genuinely think that being able to name your own invention or discovery is a big driver for scientific progress.

See the Cox Zucker Machine!

"A few weeks after we met, we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene."

[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

Has anyone had to work with Advanced SubStation Alpha files? Extension .ass.

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

shrug Non-issue. File name extensions are irrelevant on Linux and you can always use an alias if you don't like the command's name.

[–] Sunspear@piefed.social 68 points 1 week ago (3 children)

https://www.astromatic.net/software/sextractor/

Given that there's an acknowledgement of the tool in a 1996 article, the software may even be older than sex itself

Also what a time capsule this page is lol, nothing wrong with it really... just a relic of a different era

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

True, I never had sex before 1996

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 14 points 6 days ago

We know. No one has.

[–] bright@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

On mobile it looks like a modern page design

[–] solxix@pawb.social 4 points 6 days ago
[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I wonder how old their Wordpress version is…

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I worked at a place where the asset management system was called "ASS" and yes, publishing assets was called "pushing to ASS". Unfortunately management eventually made the developer change it.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

At work, work is assigned to people through a system that contains a Value Assessment Gate. Work frequently gets stuck in the VAG, which is the code used to interact with that component. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to get things out of the VAG, and when they do come out, it's called flowing out/on

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

My old job had a deployment script called shipmyself. The developer who wrote it brought it up by name whenever possible. He really enjoyed it.

[–] bright@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago

You have to be careful when the input is discharged from the system

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reminds me of a tool at my job called Picard. No idea what it does, but my disappointment was palpable when I found out that there wasn't even a hint of a star trek easter egg

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 13 points 6 days ago

Oh, you haven't found it yet?

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What does it extract? 😳

[–] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago
[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 2 points 6 days ago

Boring real answer: stars in an image. It's a robust pre-opencv image processing tool for astrophysics.

See also SAO Image DS9, which was the subsequent version after SAO Image Next Generation.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

if it HAS to be -dp and you can't also use -pd then it is implemented incorrectly.

Dunno why you'd ever do -pd, considering, but still

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 points 6 days ago

You can't just tell someone their software is implemented incorrectly

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

You do -dp when the stars align, obviously

[–] DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

Friend working with rodent data often had, prolly intentional, git lines like "push mouse_anal"

[–] Elting@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

These stargazers have a little more than just wanderlust huh.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Fucking astronomers flexing again