Create Cathedrals, Not Bricks

Re:Create Cathedrals, Not Bricks by rektide on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:13AM (#36135083)

I get that it's a story, but I can't help but chuckle at some of the situational irony, that so much of the enduring longlasting bits of computing are the little bricks. The coreutils, posix, and the various little options added to them over time.

Most of thr cathedrals get swept under the sands of time. But the bricks keeps being useful.

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Re:Create Cathedrals, Not Bricks by 082349872349872 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:22AM (#36136266)

Another take: mathematicians like to have theorems (cathedrals) named after them ... but they say the height of distinction is to have an eponymous lemma (brick).

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Re:Create Cathedrals, Not Bricks by vba616 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:40PM (#36145961)

I was going to make a vacuous comment about bricks, but then I noticed your user ID.

082349872349872 is a fascinating number.

Assuming one places a decimal point after the leading zero, and that it continues to repeat ...349872..., then:

It is equal to 74189, divided by three, and then divided by each of the first six consecutive primes.

74189, in turn, is a prime number which is also the NCBI Gene ID for the Phactr3[1] protein coding gene in lab mice.

I double checked my arithmetic because I couldn't believe it and I confirmed I get 0.82349872349872349872349872349872...

[1] https://www.informatics.jax.org/marker/MGI:1921439

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Re:Create Cathedrals, Not Bricks by 082349872349872 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @08:16PM (#36146215)

wow; I shall have to petition dang to allow for a vinculum in HN user IDs.

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