I genuinely think that being able to name your own invention or discovery is a big driver for scientific progress.

See the Cox Zucker Machine!

"A few weeks after we met, we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene."

https://www.astromatic.net/software/sextractor/

Given that there's an acknowledgement of the tool in a 1996 article, the software may even be older than sex itself

Also what a time capsule this page is lol, nothing wrong with it really... just a relic of a different era

I worked at a place where the asset management system was called "ASS" and yes, publishing assets was called "pushing to ASS". Unfortunately management eventually made the developer change it.

Reminds me of a tool at my job called Picard. No idea what it does, but my disappointment was palpable when I found out that there wasn't even a hint of a star trek easter egg

if it HAS to be -dp and you can't also use -pd then it is implemented incorrectly.

Dunno why you'd ever do -pd, considering, but still

What does it extract? 😳

Friend working with rodent data often had, prolly intentional, git lines like "push mouse_anal"

These stargazers have a little more than just wanderlust huh.

Fucking astronomers flexing again