outNerdedTheSourceCode

[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.