• KluEvo@wirebase.org
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    No seriously, evolution fucked up it’s cable management. iirc, there’s a nerve (essentially the biological equivalent of a data cable) that has an extreme detour, going from the upper neck, looping under the aorta (more or less the largest blood vessel), and then back up all the way to the throat. In giraffes, it’s 4+ meters going down the neck and then back up. That is horrible cable management and can actually cause health risks/complications for certain surgeries

    • Johandea@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      Well, to be fair to evolution, surgeries weren’t really on its list of considerations. With no surgeries to the neck/chest it won’t be a problem at all. Most of us, including giraffes, have no problem with it and it works flawlessly. Is it a detour? Yes. But it works, and that’s the only thing that matters in evolution.

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      At least we don’t have it quite as bad as octopuses, who have a have a risk of dying after eating too much because their brain wraps around their stomach.

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    You know if you take all the cables out of your body and put them zip ties, you will die.

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      Well, that’s what happens when you’re not careful enough. You can’t just go yanking cables! They need to be finessed. To be bought dinner, first.

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        Instructions unclear: After finessing these zipties, hands now bound under legs.

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    I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a beautiful cable management photo as the one on the right. Can’t belive I’m having romantic feelings about cable management.

    • Sanguinius@lemmy.world
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      That’s a real SDI video router using HD-BNC connectors. I worked on rack units with 512 in and outs, this one looks like 256.

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        Having worked on them occasionally was about to confirm that, but somebody gave it more JPEG already and I can’t quite make it out. They do certain look like BNC/some other coaxial connector though and I’ve definitely have to troubleshoot very similar nightmarish setups

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    Make a shit code, do a quick sprint, push to a master. Evolution need a huge amount of time.

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    If I were god I would put out all the nerves and blood vessels outside no more stroke if your dead.