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I feel like TED bears some responsibility for this kind of thing, somehow.

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e/something makes this eligible for sneerclub too

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11 points

The hell even is that lambda for? Effective function? Effective wavelength?

Must be about the effective L this guy is constantly taking.

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Oh no I was trying to be a more effective sneerer

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4 points

Technologist? Futurist?

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4 points

And yet: “differential comparisons are magic!”

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34 points

Ah yes, computer programming, the leader in biological sciences.

It was not on my bingo card today to witness someone attempt to ascribe legitimacy to intelligent design through application of computer programming concepts but here we are.

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It’s an old creationist ploy. DNA is like a computer program, which implies there must have been a programmer, yadda yadda, just asking questions, wharblgarbl, brave scientists are speaking up and challenging the Darwinist regime.

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A lot of things in programming are in fact evidence of natural selection rather than intelligent design.

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my brain just came up with the shitpost of “intelligent design ~= seeded random” and now you get to suffer from it too

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22 points

Calling your own mewling drivel “Programmer Theory” is an A+ dipshit move.

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18 points

Spoken like someone who doesn’t know shit about functional genomics

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22 points

my psychic powers tell me he doesn’t know shit about programming either

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12 points

the subtitle always makes me laugh in these contexts

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That is a delightfully ironic cover ^^, my headcannon is that someone in the distribution pipeline was intentionally taking the piss, surely no one can be that shortsighted; wait …

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@dgerard @Beryl do any of us, really?

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ah, Programmer Theory is just the dumbest shit I hear when engineering meetings lose focus, got it

also, words mean things, Pico Paco e/λ! science absolutely does fucking explain genetic recombination, CS knows how merge functions work, and we even know from cross-discipline information theory that these two things look mathematically nothing like each other!

also, and I almost missed it because this stupid asshole tried to squeeze it in right before an etc: where the fuck is DNA “execution” doing anything resembling a unit test?

fuck me, the more I look back at Pico Paco e/λ‘s posts the more bullshit I spot. git merge (and all other methods of merging code under source control) relies on manual intervention in cases where merge algorithms break (which is incredibly common) and might still produce a non-functional result — it’d be awful at automatically merging DNA strings together! like fuck, the diffs that git merge handles are even line-based, which isn’t a concept that DNA strings have

“another copy that works perfectly with some fidelity” what does this even mean, Pico Paco e/λ, if that is your real name?

and here I was gonna ask Pico Paco e/λ who he thinks is reading the comments in junk DNA, but these posts are fractally wrong

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You’re forgetting that on the internet if someone doesn’t know something, then it must be unknowable. “It’s basically magic” boils down to “I personally don’t know how this works”.

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