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> Personally, I think of DNA as being like the Linux kernel codebase oh my god would you shut up already
by relaxing 2y ago
> Personally, I think of DNA as being like the Linux kernel codebase
oh my god would you shut up already
- banq 2y agohttps://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-023-00527-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-023-00527-6 The Information Theory of Aging
- hehbot 2y agoto the kernel developer everything is a kernel
- derefr 2y agoI'm not a kernel developer! The Linux kernel is just a much closer analogy than your average piece of software would be, because the Linux kernel actually has this distinct step that generates a standalone build config file that later build steps read. Most regular software build infrastructure (autoconf, cmake, etc) just directly "burns in" any passed-in build config as generated code, without any intermediary file storing the config itself — which is a very different and not-very-analogous process. (That'd be more like if our epigenome was an extra chromosome of DNA built up during development!)