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Sounds like a new field of software engineering in the near future. And I like how the author casually mentions that there's an unexplained "linker" code in the
by frongpik 6y ago
Sounds like a new field of software engineering in the near future. And I like how the author casually mentions that there's an unexplained "linker" code in the AAA sequence that controls the number of copies to be made, with an implicit assumption that everyone's acting in a good faith. Frankly, if I noticed a strange 20 byte sequence inside the tail of zeros in an executable file, I'd instantly assume it's opcode instructions, probably a function, that gets control by a "jmp" instruction hidden somewhere in the main code.
- TheJoeMan 6y agoI can't say with certainty, but I learned the DNA printer makes shorter sequences that then self-assemble into the final strand. So if you have too many repeating AAA's, you can't control if there's 20 or 100 because new AAA sequences will keep latching on to the end of the strand. So, you break it up every so often with some other nucleotides.
- pests 6y agoCorrect they are pattern builders and in repetitive sequences they have trouble terminating similar to recursion without an endcase.