Don't know about Windows, but I routinely change few lines of Linux code from time to time. Since 2.2.X kernels. Never meet any problems with that. Yes, it is a large and complex project, but it is perfectly self-documented and it is not hard to understand how it works and what exactly you need to change to get what you want.
I find it naive to believe human can edit book that is 133 astronomic units long
That's not that scary. 3 billion nucleotide pairs is ~750Mb of data. 1 nucleotide pair is 2 bits, so 4 nucleotide pairs is a byte. Not a simple task, but not completely impossible too.
Also it is not very rational to start from human DNA. There is much simpler beings, there is complete plants with flowers, roots and all that stuff (not some chlorella cells) with DNA length of only ~160M pairs, it is 40Mb of data. Chlorella is ~30M pairs or 7.5Mb. Going to bacteria, there is species with ~160k pairs or 40kb of data. Absolutely possible things to start the journey. When you completely get how that 40kb of code works, it will be much easier to go further. May be there will be some regularities or heavily used identical sequences and you will be able to split larger code into "standard libraries" and the main program, that will make further progress easier.
Linux kenel 5.10 is 1.1Gb of code unpacked, meanwhile.
Its very admirable to have faith in humanity, but I find it impossible to buy in gene editing yet
Me too. I don't buy in their gene editing. But I don't see anything wrong in starting the long road of real science and studying of gene editing in the sane and scientific way.
I don't try to tell that we have to edit our plants, pets or ourselves right now in hurry. I just try to point out that gene editing is not some pure evil that should be hated and thrown out. We should study it, get all possible knowledge about it and then, use it for our needs if necessary.
Don't know about Windows, but I routinely change few lines of Linux code from time to time. Since 2.2.X kernels. Never meet any problems with that. Yes, it is a large and complex project, but it is perfectly self-documented and it is not hard to understand how it works and what exactly you need to change to get what you want.
I find it naive to believe human can edit book that is 133 astronomic units long
That's not that scary. 3 billion nucleotide pairs is ~750Mb of data. 1 nucleotide pair is 2 bits, so 4 nucleotide pairs is a byte. Not a simple task, but not completely impossible too.
Also it is not very rational to start from human DNA. There is much simpler beings, there is complete plants with flowers, roots and all that stuff, not some chlorella cells with DNA length of only ~160M pairs, it is 40Mb of data. Going to bacteria, there is species with ~160k pairs or 40kb of data. Absolutely possible things to start the journey. When you completely get how that 40kb of code works, it will be much easier to go further. May be there will be some regularities or heavily used identical sequences and you will be able to split larger code into "standard libraries" and the main program, that will make further progress easier.
Linux kenel 5.10 is 1.1Gb of code unpacked, meanwhile.
Its very admirable to have faith in humanity, but I find it impossible to buy in gene editing yet
Me too. I don't buy in their gene editing. But I don't see anything wrong in starting the long road of real science and studying of gene editing in the sane and scientific way.
I don't try to tell that we have to edit our plants, pets or ourselves right now in hurry. I just try to point out that gene editing is not some pure evil that should be hated and thrown out. We should study it, get all possible knowledge about it and then, use it for our needs if necessary.
Don't know about Windows, but I routinely change few lines of Linux code from time to time. Since 2.2.X kernels. Never meet any problems with that. Yes, it is a large and complex project, but it is perfectly self-documented and it is not hard to understand how it works and what exactly you need to change to get what you want.
I find it naive to believe human can edit book that is 133 astronomic units long
That's not that scary. 3 billion nucleotide pairs is ~750Mb of data. 1 nucleotide pair is 2 bits, so 4 nucleotide pairs is a byte. Not a simple task, but not completely impossible too.
Also it is not very rational to start from human DNA. There is much simpler beings, there is plants with DNA length of ~160M pairs, it is 40Mb of data. Going to bacteria, there is species with ~160k pairs or 40kb of data. Absolutely possible things to start the journey. When you completely get how that 40kb of code works, it will be much easier to go further. May be there will be some regularities or heavily used identical sequences and you will be able to split larger code into "standard libraries" and the main program, that will make further progress easier.
Linux kenel 5.10 is 1.1Gb of code unpacked, meanwhile.
Its very admirable to have faith in humanity, but I find it impossible to buy in gene editing yet
Me too. I don't buy in their gene editing. But I don't see anything wrong in starting the long road of real science and studying of gene editing in the sane and scientific way.
I don't try to tell that we have to edit our plants, pets or ourselves right now in hurry. I just try to point out that gene editing is not some pure evil that should be hated and thrown out. We should study it, get all possible knowledge about it and then, use it for our needs if necessary.
Don't know about Windows, but I routinely change few lines of Linux code from time to time. Since 2.2.X kernels. Never meet any problems with that. Yes, it is a large and complex project, but it is perfectly self-documented and it is not hard to understand how it works and what exactly you need to change to get what you want.
I find it naive to believe human can edit book that is 133 astronomic units long
That's not that scary. 3 billion nucleotide pairs is ~750Mb of data. 1 nucleotide pair is 2 bits, so 4 nucleotide pairs is a byte. Not a simple task, but not completely impossible too.
Also it is not very rational to start from human DNA. There is much simpler beings, there is plants with DNA length of ~160M pairs, it is 40Mb of data. Going to bacteria, there is species with ~160k pairs or 40kb of data. Absolutely possible things to start the journey.
Linux kenel 5.10 is 1.1Gb of code unpacked, meanwhile.
Its very admirable to have faith in humanity, but I find it impossible to buy in gene editing yet
Me too. I don't buy in their gene editing. But I don't see anything wrong in starting the long road of real science and studying of gene editing in the sane and scientific way.