Leonhard Lass
Dillon PentzSomeone complained that the xkcd Dependency comic is unrealistic because it only shows one critical dependency you've never heard of.
However, it all makes sense once you realize it's actually a fractal:
masukomi@dillon oh look. I see left-pad!
🤦♀️
dasparadoxon@dillon everything is a fractal.
adamrice
Ian K Tindale@dillon personally I think that little upright slab from that Nespresso thing isn’t the problem, it’s the longer horizontal slab immediately above – I think that’ll crumble, structurally, the soonest of all, that thin wide horizontal slab, because of the uneven forces on it from underneath combined with the very even force from above
(Of course, what this whole cartoon doesn’t mention is that it’s all sponge cake)
(Of course, what this whole cartoon doesn’t mention is that it’s all sponge cake)
OnlyMe@dillon So it’s all Nebraska’s fault, all the way down!
Chris Bohn
THIS ACCOUNT HAS MOVED@dillon turtles all the way down
enoch_exe_inc@dillon It’s dependencies all the way down, though even that is a bit of an oversimplification. I like to think of the infrastructure of the Internet not as haphazardly-placed building blocks, but as a literal web of trusses connecting nodes together. These trusses differ size and purpose, but they all use essentially same designs. So, if someone changes or obsoletes the design, the whole Internet comes apart.
ChuS
stage7 
@chusgc Por supuesto. En el descenso a los infiernos de la programación siempre hay un escalón más.
Erik@dillon Damn you made me dizzy 😵
alphabetter@dillon On a day when I am developing a Selenium app in Python to scrape data off a 3rd party web site that has been developed using some horrible framework this rings all too true.
Ivan Tsenov 🇧🇬 🇺🇦@dillon Wasn't there a guy who deleted his npm repos and basically broke half the JS projects in the world?
Torben@dillon Yes, this a formidable adaption! And a very fitting description of reality!
Z3r0 ~ 
@dillon all hail the fractal shapes
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷
Simon Zerafa
Melroy van den Berg@dillon don't get me started on cyclic dependencies
Mulbox@dillon This is the way.
Christian Tietze@dillon thank God it didn't zoom into the small supporting thingie, that would've been concerning. We're good
Rod Van Meter@dillon I think I will watch this all day.
Daniel Esik@dillon Amazingly, no one acknowledged Nebraska for supplying so many altruistic engineers!
jzakotnik@dillon @sovtechfund look, there's an updated version 🙂
cslinuxboy@dillon Boom! Never noticed that.
William @ A9@dillon "Runs on Atlassian"