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Hey bro, can I have some antibiotic resistance?

Sure bro, but remember that the heavy metal tolerance gene is a dependency.

Shit, I'm on python 2 but hmrA requires python 3.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

The tree of life is a git repository. I'm personally partial to the giraffe release.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

class Giraffe extends Neck {...} or something like that

[–] randomaccount43543 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

That’s not how extends works 😂 you silly goose

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What, you thought a giraffe was some sort of animal, and not a type of neck? Didn't you know that snakes, geese, and giraffes all evolved from the common neck: C. neckens?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about biology to dispute it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

It's free style, another alternative if you prefer class Giraffe extends Animal { this.neck = 10*super.neck; }

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

class Goose extends Silly

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The one with the 5m long nerve? Because it needs to loop around an artery near the heart, as that was the shortest way back when that nerve first developed. And now the source and destination are still close, but the heart moved. But no one has gotten around to make that legacy code more efficient.

One of my favorites as well.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's a feature, not a bug.....

OK, look, we tried refactoring, but everything broke. Just don't touch it and it'll be fine.

[–] cm0002 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where is the Human branch maintainer? Why aren't they reviewing and approving the numerous PRs and merges??? So many open issues...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They left a cryptic note about free will and not mixing textiles a few millennia back and haven't been on the mammals-dev Slack since.

It's alright, we're pretty sure adoption is going to peak soon anyway.