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>>qqqqqu+(OP)
Genetics. I still have no intuition for how combining my wife’s and my DNA has resulted in children with traits from both of us. My brain always tries to imagine interleaving two binaries and hoping for a resulting program that works a bit like the two sources, which it of course wouldn’t.

>>LVB+sv
Don't think if it as a monolith. It's more like thousands of microservices and thousands of different binaries all interacting in a whole bunch of different and convoluted ways. Sexual reproduction is jumbling together two different people's thousands of microservices and seeing what happens. Or, each program is relying one library, imagine just randomly mixing around different libraries. Genes and proteins are discrete parts that can be swapped out and in.