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Nature does not refactor. There's the laryngeal nerve somewhere in the neck of mammals that has to go around a blood vessel. On Giraffes, this runs all the way
by npstr 3y ago
Nature does not refactor. There's the laryngeal nerve somewhere in the neck of mammals that has to go around a blood vessel. On Giraffes, this runs all the way down the neck, around said blood vessel, than back up, all that just to connect two places in the upper neck that are inches apart. Evolution writes the ultimate spaghetti code.
More info:
https://berto-meister.blogspot.com/2011/08/unintelligent-design-giraffes-laryngeal.html https://berto-meister.blogspot.com/2011/08/unintelligent-des...
- xeonmc 3y agoGod must be a frontend developer.
- linux2647 3y agoOr hacked it all together in Perl: https://xkcd.com/224/ https://xkcd.com/224/
- joshuamcginnis 3y agoHe's definitely full stack.
- temporalparts 3y agoNature rarely* refactors. Sometimes random mutations refactors, which leads to efficiencies which leads to evolutionary advantages. If nature doesn't refactor, then why are there so many crabs?
- kirubakaran 3y agohttps://youtu.be/cO1a1Ek-HD0?si=H6X6ICZQLbq_s41C https://youtu.be/cO1a1Ek-HD0?si=H6X6ICZQLbq_s41C The famous Richard Dawkins video about that (4min long)
- Grimblewald 3y agonoodly its appendage, sphagetti its code, in its image we are made, amen.
- Phemist 3y ago*ramen
- loud_cloud 3y ago"Octopus throat runs through brain" and the "blood supply in FRONT of the retina cones n rods" were the other 2 that are often mentioned.
- username3 3y ago[flagged]
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- ItCouldBeWorse 3y agoNature hires a million devs and then kills the project if they do not hit a deadline.Nature mixes it up with sex and creatures hunting one another. There are no chill moments.
- water-data-dude 3y agoEarly developmental biology (by “early” I mean early pregnancy) is the shit you Do Not Touch. Each step of development is highly dependent on the previous steps (assuming this bit’s here, that bit’s there, etc.). If you make a change it’s extremely likely to be fatal or have negative consequences like birth defects, and the likelihood of a bad outcome climbs steeply as you move the change earlier and earlier in the process. That’s why pretty much every animal - humans, tigers, whales, lizards - looks the same when they’re a teeny tiny little fetus. My example is testicles! Testicles begin in the same place as ovaries, which made a lot of sense back when we were coldblooded! Having a pair of balls dangling in a soft pouch between your legs isn’t a strategy you adopt if you can help it. In the alternate timeline where lizard people rose to dominate the earth instead of humans they don’t have “Ouch, I’ve been hit in the balls!” humor. But the testicles form next to the kidneys early on in the developmental process (and as we’ve established, you don’t fuck with those stages), so they have to migrate south VERY late in the development! Because they SCHLOOP on down after everything else is pretty much in place, it weakens the abdominal wall, which is why men are more prone to certain types of hernias than women are.