Cosmic Cleric

Years are made of months … Good read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

More than just a good read, that’s one of the project/programming Ten Commandments.

Can’t tell you how many times over the decades I’ve had to argue with project managers about that.

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It’s in the post: https://explainxkcd.com/3064/

Thanks, I missed that the link was in the post.

And it’s quite funny if you happen to have some programming background. If not, you tell me.

I am a software developer, and I just didn’t get the joke at all, even after reading the explanation…

The comic relates this to a common issue when editing documents or coding, where the author accidentally makes changes to two separately created versions of documents, when they meant to only edit one, which can result in changes to both (or all) resulting documents functionally essential parts of the completed project

Honestly not trying to be pedantic, joke just flew over my head I guess. 🤷‍♂️

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Could someone throw the link my way that explains what that comic is saying, and why it’s funny or not, or just explain it?

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No valid arguments there either.

Just to be clear, I agree with you, and those links are me doing so. Don’t quote have the hang of cross posting here on Lemmy.

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So if you put earth into the Oort Cloud it would still be a planet, because we know that earth has the potential to clean it’s neighborhood.

Would it be a non-planet for the millions of years it would take to clear its orbit?

Does Earth’s body/features magically change somehow for the duration of the clearing process, so that it doesn’t resemble a planet?

The point is that using external criteria to identify what an internal thing is is not logical, or scientific.

The theoretical object in the Oort Cloud would relative fast clear the space around himself if it had the size to have a stable and long living internal heat source.

You don’t know that, especially with the size of the Oort Cloud, and the size of the orbit to clear. And the rules for how much clearance has to be done is very arbitrary.

Also bodies can be small and have a decaying heat source that’ll last many millions of years, or renewing heat source via tidal interactions. It’s not necessarily a size thing.

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What I will never support is the stupidity of defining any object by external criteria.

https://lemmy.world/comment/15686674.

https://lemmy.world/comment/15687018

I personally don’t think they can be counted as skies and oceans etc. anymore when they’re being mixed in with multi-thousand-degree hydrogen/helium plasma.

So Mars never had oceans? Or an atmosphere?

So Saturn’s moon Titan doesn’t have lakes? Or an atmosphere?

What happens if a body is found in the Oort Cloud that has an internal heat source so that it has a internal ocean like Europa? It’s it still not a planet because the space around it is busy?

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If you pick a random Earth-sized lump of the Sun as a potential planet, and swap its place with Earth, Earth would quickly get mixed in with the rest of the Sun and stop being a distinct entity, so be very silly to still call a planet,

Why? Everything about Earth is still the same, skies, oceans, etc. Only difference is that it’s crowded in by other bodies now.

Trying to scientifically judge if a body is a planet by something external to it, if it’s being crowded in our not, it’s not logical, and doesn’t change the body itself.

What does a body clearing is orbit or not have anything to do with the body itself?

Location makes some difference to whether or not something’s a planet.

Only because a very few human beings astronomers illogically/arbitrarily decided that’s so. The reality on the ground for the body is that its still Earth, the planet we live on.

Planetary Scientists should be deciding the rules, and not solely Astronomers.

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I realize the comic is good natured, but I feel the need to be serious for a moment, and say something…

Any rule that would disqualify Earth as a planet, if Earth and the other planet switched places, it’s a bad rule, and should not be used.

Humans don’t stop being humans, if they are standing alone one day, and are surrounded/crowded by other people the next day.

Also, having a single handful of people decide for the species what the definition of a planet is, and then some of them sell books about it, it’s not good science.

Planetary Scientists really need to step up, and decide this.

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“Additionally, the $800 exemption for low-value goods has been removed.”

I didn’t even know such a thing existed, it’s not something reported on the news.

So every product will be hit with the tariff raising prices, and not just expensive products getting the tariffs. Yikes!

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A fur/stump time paradox would occur.

EDIT: Yikes! Hey, at least I tried. Not everyone can make cool meme pics.

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I’ve never heard that one before. /s

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The Trump administration probably threatened to break up Disney.

Let’s hope so, it’d be a shame if they did this on their own initiative.

That might be true, but also corporations always chase after approval of the White House, regardless of who’s in there at the time. It’s good for business.

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I know the movie, I saw it a long long time ago. I just didn’t catch that reference, didn’t remember that being said in that scene. Creepy scene btw.

Thanks!

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Elaborate? Your comment seems nonsensical?

Hey look at that, ProPublica posted an article here on Lemmy and they included a Creative Commons license at the top of their post as well.

And here’s why they do and how you can too …

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-you-or-your-newsroom-can-republish-propublicas-stories-515

https://www.propublica.org/nerds/happy-birthday-creative-commons

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You can play the vast majority of games easily on Linux right now.

I’ve been a gamer my whole life, and I currently have a Linux system and I play every game I want to play on there just fine, either through Steam and/or Bottles/Steam.