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		grkvlt on April 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything These days it would be browsing and displaying web pages, I suspect: "Every program attempts to expand until it can browse the web. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

rickycook on April 5, 2018 [–]

“every program attempts to expand until it includes a full copy of chromium...”

beiller on April 6, 2018 | [–]

Haha. "Every program attempts to expand until it can compile and run a copy of itself"

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