Gregory's ServerI took this photo of my kid playing with his blocks the other day, and when I realized it reminded me of something, well...I had to make this.
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@collinsworth That's pretty good. The last time my kids played with blocks they made an anatomically correct Abraham Lincoln eating cheese. @QueenOfCoffee @collinsworth um AKSHULLY, to be "anatomically correct" it would need to be made out of Lincoln Logs(TM). π π€  @moondog548 @QueenOfCoffee @collinsworth did you ask for a "Lincoln Hog"? Yeah we definitely included that   @Strubbl totally! For people not knowing, what we talk about: https://xkcd.com/2347/ (one of my all time favorites) @collinsworth @collinsworth I was talking about this very thing with a few other #Engineers on Thursday and it's incredible to think how brittle major parts of our modern #digital #infrastructure are and how many #major projects depend on what turns out to be #volunteer work on passion projects. I know this is how #opensource works but this makes it incredibly important to understand your dependencies and their dependencies and so onβ¦ @collinsworth You added the maintainer of left-pad about to yank his package to the background  @collinsworth@hachyderm.io he's gonna be a very valuable asset to a tech company someday! heheh @collinsworth And an accurate analogy of life being a balancing act. One block out of place, and it all comes tumbling down.   @collinsworth That it's leaning precariously to one side indicates how much more realistic it is versus the original XKCD comic. π    @collinsworth  @collinsworth I had that exact same wooden block set as a child! I loved it so much. Ours came in a flat black box, and the blocks filled the box exactly. @collinsworth You should put a credit to https://xkcd.com/2347/ there, but thanks for letting me feel I'm in the "in"-group :) @hakona@alstadheim.no I guess I felt the credit was implicit, given that I mentioned being reminded of something, and that anybody at all familiar with xkcd would probably recognize the lettering, if not the exact text (both of which I obviously copied and pasted). Still, it's possible people mistook this as entirely original, which wasn't my intention. And it never hurts to be explicit. @collinsworth please add the original Randall Munroe xkcd comic link "Dependency" to the alt-text. |
@collinsworth Hahaha, that's amazing! And nice photoshopping, too