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oh look at that. removing IBM enterprise apps really doesn’t break anything and the whole stack got lighter. science.
I love that the initial state itself isn't stable. The world keeps moving around us. Can't choose staying still.
It'd be really cool (and probably useful) if someone could figure out a way to generate diagrams like this for any software project. You'd first need to figure out a way to generate a complete dependency tree. For each box, I interpret its height as a measure of its complexity and its width as a measure of the support it receives. The hardest part would probably be figuring out a way to quantitatively measure those v…
I knew exactly what this would be before even clicking it. Someone had to make it!
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On my machine, the initial state isn't simulated. It only begins simulation when I touch it. At which point, the weight causes the bottom blocks to intersect each other significantly.
One more pedantic nitpick: when a block gets wedged between two blocks at an angle, it gets slowly pushed out, although there is a lot of weight resting on the top block. That would be realistic only (maybe) if the blocks were made of ice, but not for other materials...
Feature request - be able to change the text and re-share it. Half the fun of this xkcd is referring to it in context of whatever just went haywire.
I love that clicking the empty space and just doing nothing at all still causes the blocks to fall apart after some time.
It'd be really cool (and probably useful) if someone could figure out a way to generate diagrams like this for any software project. You'd first need to figure out a way to generate a complete dependency tree. For each box, I interpret its height as a measure of its complexity and its width as a measure of the support it receives. The hardest part would probably be figuring out a way to quantitatively measure those v…
Ask and you shall receive: https://stacktower.io/
I love that the initial state itself isn't stable. The world keeps moving around us. Can't choose staying still.