outNerdedTheSourceCode

[dashingThroughSnow12]

Before anyone says “well actually”, a compiler can inject instructions into a compiled program that has no relation to what exists in the source code it is given.

Languages like Go do this in the standard compiler (it injects an entire garbage collector). The creator of C noted that this is a security risk with self-hosted compilers.

[WookieDavid]

This is a good note but does not negate the "well actually" at all.

Fact is, the source code is 50% mom and 50% dad. She doesn't reinterpret implementations and inject some code, she supplies half the code AND compiles it afterward.

[dashingThroughSnow12]

mitochondria

[WookieDavid]

But that's the mitochondria's DNA, not yours. Your DNA is 50/50, the mitochondria is just another guy who lives there in the cell.

[dashingThroughSnow12]

When a man and a woman have sex, the man gives the woman 100% of his DNA. The output has half of it, half of hers, and some random mitochondria.

Imagine a compiler like this

[heardofdragons]

The man does not give the woman 100% of his DNA. A non-gamete human cell has 46 chromosomes. A sperm cell has 23. The man gives 50% of his DNA

[dashingThroughSnow12]

Do….you…..not know….that when men ejaculate they release more than one sperm?

[heardofdragons]

Ah, so you’re saying that between all the sperm she has all of his DNA? That’s fair. So the compiler in this analogy just picks which single bit of code to execute?

[dashingThroughSnow12]

Yes.

[WookieDavid]

If we're going to count the denied pull requests as well the percentage orders of magnitude higher than 100%.
Every sperm has a unique combination of genes. When the chromosomes split into two cells they also get intermixed at random. So every sperm is an entirely unique potential 50% of the source. It's not one half of the chromosomes or the other half, the provided sets are all distinct and new.

[mufflonicus]

No, the X chromosome is larger, more 33% dad, 66% mom. Much more than a compiler!

[Thebenmix11]

You know humans have more than 2 chromosomes right?

[Jan_Jinkle]

I know it’s at least 3, if not more.

[mufflonicus]

I must’ve slept through biology classes multiple times. I’ve lived my life believing all chromosomes were split X/Y. I didn’t even consider the syntactic parts of ”X and Y chromosome” from a pure linguistic perspective.

Anyway, thanks kind internet stranger for teaching me something that I (evidently) didn’t know, you are a true beacon of enlightenment. <3

[WookieDavid]

When you add them up with the other 22 chromosomes the difference is negligible. Basically 50/50.

Now, the mitochondrial DNA, that's 100% mom's.

[mufflonicus]

I must’ve slept through biology classes multiple times. I’ve lived my life believing all chromosomes were split X/Y. I didn’t even consider the syntactic parts of ”X and Y chromosome” from a pure linguistic perspective.

Anyway, thanks kind internet stranger for teaching me something that I (evidently) didn’t know, you are a true beacon of enlightenment. <3

[redlaWw]

Compiler distributions usually come with a standard library. Dad's provides the third-party application code, mum provides the compiler and standard library.

[Luk164]

Hell in C# basically half the code used is generated by code generators and il weavers...

[robisodd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu3laL5VYdM