Hey bro, can I have some antibiotic resistance?
Sure bro, but remember that the heavy metal tolerance gene is a dependency.
Shit, I’m on python 2 but hmrA requires python 3.
The tree of life is a git repository. I’m personally partial to the giraffe release.
class Giraffe extends Neck {...}
or something like thatThat’s not how extends works 😂 you silly goose
The one with the 5m long nerve? Because it needs to loop around an artery near the heart, as that was the shortest way back when that nerve first developed. And now the source and destination are still close, but the heart moved. But no one has gotten around to make that legacy code more efficient.
One of my favorites as well.
It’s a feature, not a bug…
OK, look, we tried refactoring, but everything broke. Just don’t touch it and it’ll be fine.
Seems like there’s even some feedback going on between DNA and histones, the protein core the DNA is whirled around.
Removed by mod
Oh yes, DNA is more like a reference library than a blueprint. Proteins and other molecules decide what they want, then activate the appropriate genes. Also most of the DNA is stuff that isn’t in everyday use - genes that are to be used only under certain circumstances, genes that were once functional but are now deprecated, random DNA that got in by mistake, and stuff that serves no discernable purpose but breaks everything if removed.
Lol, Junk DNA is rarely used functions and deprecated code. :-}
Btw, useless fragments of virus’s “imports” are there too, right? And some accidents and jumping sequences too. DNA is wild.
Not a biologist but have to understand some biology and my understanding is that the current consensus is that most of that junk DNA isn’t actually junk and serves some purpose. We just have a very poor understanding of what that is or how it works.
Rarely used stuff isn’t junk DNA. It is still part of the genome, just expressed only under certain conditions (like stress).
Viral sequences do get embedded in host DNA. Some stay mostly inactive, others keep jumping around (and shuffling our genes in usually harmful but occassionally useful combinations) and yet others actually become useful to the host.
Also sometimes they will change your sex in the process.
Males are bloat. Reproducing asexually and exchanging genes horizontally is clearly more efficient.
Only in simpler species, higher animals have too much depencies.
Other things are simpler. Did you know that there was a group of goats stranded on an island, developed cold-bloodedness to save ressources?
I touched a piece code that was +10 years old, according to git. Should I be scared? Will my change it survive??
Now I want to know what “tech debt” means. Could someone please Google for me?
It’s mostly a software development term. Bugs are the most obvious kind of tech debt. They have to be fixed or a product will slowly become unusable over time, so when you release something with bugs you’re incurring “debt” they must be “paid” later by fixing them. A lot of tech debt also involves corner cutting and bad design decisions that are hard to explain briefly.
Implementing a software feature takes a certain amount of time, and time translates pretty directly to money. Sometimes, you may need to meet a deadline or run out of budget, so you end up implementing the feature at a lower quality or without completing the usual checks or constructing it in such a way that nothing else can be built on top.
This allows you to meet the time/money constraints, but it will come back to haunt you, either making the implementation of future features more costly, or requiring the mess you left behind to be cleaned up, before trying to build on top.
As such, it feels a lot like you’re taking up ‘technical debt’, which you’ll have to pay for later.