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Never know when you'll need the info for something new: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

The crazy part is all that is one 19 chromosomes. 18 of the chromosomes are individually larger than the entire human genome.

The biosphere would be so much better with Git for Genomes

Genius.

They're also baby

I thought it was just me that did this! 😂😂😂

that's what he gets for using spaces in his naming convention!

I think I may be a lungfish 🤔

Two months later and, my god, I finally understood this.

Day made! Thanks! ❤️🐡

Well done!!!

Today, I sent a PowerPoint file to my team via Teams—let’s call it powerpoint.pptx. It sent fine, was received, and a few hours later, I sent an updated version with the same name. Teams, in its wisdom, renamed it powerpoint 1.pptx. So annoying.

💣︎☜︎ ☞︎☼︎

@xkcd-titletext.bsky.social 🥺

I am in this photo and do not like it

This is very funny!

Merge them with a compare tool

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@pzmyers.bsky.social

Just when I thought I was gonna make my editing easier Thanks

yep... aaaarrgghhh

COPY OF COPY OF CO...

OK, I call not fair. that's like...level 100 snark.

great strategy if pulling up the right copy has trivial cost or error rate

Brilliant.

Laughing.

Seriously, now I am on an 8tb...Same windows install since windows7

😂😂😂 😩

Which is better a lungfish or a gillman?

You did not copy the Alt Text here?

I was trying to make a git joke but then I went and checked the alt-text

Well they'll just start over writing and hope they have enough redundancy. What they're doing seems to be working for them.

Hah nothing like a good genome joke!

I love the hole that not getting on of these leads me down. Now I know about Sonic hedgehog gene signaling in limb development. Counterpoint number 1,237 for my next spat with a creationist.

I see you have coding experience 😂

If you follow the link to the xkcd site and hover over the drawing additional text then appears that adds to the humour - Randall got there first wrt: git

America rn

If you go to the original comic on XKCD and check out the alt text tag for the image you will see it

On what scale?

Need @pzmyers.bsky.social to weigh in on this

A wise bioinformatics once told me, "Evolution does not select for elegance, unfortunately"

Yes!

True. I was commenting on the version control.

Hilarious!!

51 / 17 = 3

Mostly because it's palindromic. It just *feels* like it shouldn't be prime

I'm renaming the shared drive of my nonprofit *lumgfish* and I'm old skool printing this and putting it on the file cabinet, too. This was a laugh I needed after spending today trying to determine which of 6 versions was the report we submitted.

By bones are humming as my harmonic frequency is engaged. The only way I know how to run a machine is if it's storage is brimming and every action tells me I need more. Empty storage is useless.

I adore you

Ah I was wrong about lungfish genome size! I thought it was 30Gb. Fine, I will accept lungfish is officially silly-sized.

"Final final No REALLY final" being the suffix on every project file I ever submitted. 😭😭

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C'est pour toi celui là @mewsse.pet 🤣

Thank you. Frustrating.

This is what my Documents folder looks like

The hard, hard truth. If only the lungfish had known about rev.date.

🤣

this is oppressively nerdy in so many different ways

alt: I know having so many base pairs makes rebasing complicated, but you're in Bilateria, so shouldn't you at LEAST be better at using git head?

Ask not the Platypus why is cries

Fowl carcinization.

That would make so many conflicts omg

I wrote a paper on this one a while back

thanks, will get it back up in a bit!

5 minutes later she’s still mumbling to herself about it

Nope. They are filled with dead selfish genes, which we now call junk DNA.

Always delightful to see two of my fave comic artists interacting :DDD

It pains me that you don’t engage in alt-text here

Lung fish need git and a proper branching strategy

i get the rhythm amd want to laugh but have no idea what is going on here (stem major, practicing)

😂

Plus, when you occasionally merge one or more versions you can write "bug fixes and performance improvements" for every update description, just like Google.

"Man girl, those are some big genomes."

Title text: "I know having so many base pairs makes rebasing complicated, but you're in Bilateria, so shouldn't you at LEAST be better at using git head?" Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3064#Transcript

Lungfish providing extremely relatable content

Their genome greed is unmatched

This is the best explanation for how genome duplications end up sticking around that I’ve ever seen. Often that bug becomes a feature!

@koparjan.bsky.social