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Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn’t work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn’t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-5H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3884,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/mysql-5-7-5-on-power-thread-priority\/","url_meta":{"origin":353,"position":0},"title":"MySQL 5.7.5 on POWER – thread priority","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2014-10-14","format":false,"excerpt":"Good news everyone! 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