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I thought of a cute problem: what is the smallest (size) ./a.out binary I can create? Here are some rules the program should follow: ./a.out must run successfully. $? must deterministically be 0. The binary must be produced by GCC only; no post-processing with objcopy, hex editors, or manual patching. We begin with the simplest program possible: // compiled with gcc empty.c int main() { return 0; } This gives us a file size of 15816 bytes (from stat). Not too shabby, but we will need four of the RAM used in the Apollo guidance computer to fit our binary that does nothing.

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You have seen the posts. The LinkedIn announcement that opens "In a world where", four hundred words long and not one of them the author's. The comment that thanks you for "this incredibly thoughtful piece" and then describes a piece you did not write. The company email so completely handed over to a machine, start to finish, that no human could have read it back without wincing, which is the tell, because plainly no human did. Bad work is not the part that gets to me. Bad work has always been with us. It is that nobody making it appears to feel a thing. Not a wince, not a flicker.

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