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[-] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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] 54 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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] 8 points 2 months ago

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] 7 points 2 months ago

But isn't Ursa Major a bear?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ursa Major means "the great bear“, though. Being named after something that's named bear counts in my book as well as those of all but the worst pedants.

The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.

That's what the secretly hyper-intelligent penguins who scared away the polar bears WANT you to think!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

You're fucking kidding me

I'm renaming the arctic from now on

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Bearritory

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 months 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] 28 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Disgusted slow clap

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I mean, just look at 'em

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

10/10 gorilla

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

The most gorilla gorilla that ever gorillaed.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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] 14 points 2 months ago

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Gorilla gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, gorilla Gorilla gorilla

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

For a long time humans were classified as homo sapien sapien

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

some one tell him about Buffalo

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

That's how gorillas pronounce their name

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

gorilla together stronger

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Cartoon Network Groovies (Gorilla 4 Sale) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_oaVD4NzYo

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Because we biologists fucking SUCK at naming things.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

seems like an OK name.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months 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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's the gorillast of them all

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months 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] 3 points 2 months 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] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That look, "what you doing?".

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