Evolution is how God (or any other deity) applies bug patches (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by amon@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

If most of your patches makes it worse and get erased, while only a few good ones are kept in the software, then you know that you shouldn't be fixing bugs. Or mammals. Or bryophytes.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

Or no gods are real, so it is not.

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Crocodiles are the one piece of legacy code that somehow just works and absolutely no one is allowed to touch

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