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  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon takes a DNA test
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    5 天前

    AncestryDNA would absolutely give conclusive proof of either close blood relationship or lack thereof. In practice, it’s just as good as a paternity test.

    The only caveats I can think of are:

    • Both parent and (potential) child would have to get the test.
    • I guess if AncestryDNA just completely messed up and represented some random other person’s DNA as the parent’s or child’s, that would give false negatives.
    • Chimerism.
    • AncestryDNA might not be admissable in court.

    And of those, the first three are just as applicable to paternity tests as they are to AncestryDNA.




  • You can take my terminal when you can pry it from my cold, dead, hands.

    Any one-liner you put together, you can re-run trivially. You can rerun it with modifications trivially. You can wrap it in a for loop that runs it with different parameters trivially. You can stick it in a file and make a reusable Bash script. It’s far easier to show someone else how you did it (just copy/paste the text of your terminal session) than dozens of screenshots of a point-and-click adventure (and not in a good way) GUI app. Bash commands are easier over SSH than GUI apps over RDP or VNC or whatever. You can’t script a GUI app.

    I seriously find myself wondering why someone would use a GUI for something they can do with a terminal. Learning curve is the only reason I can think of.

    I frequently find myself creating tools that let me do with a terminal what I formerly could only do with a GUI tool.