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Is /usr/bin/env a standardized location?

No. No new locations added in POSIX.1-2024.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...

POSIX omits from standardisation what is not necessary for an application to work, so that a wide range of systems can be supported. As for Shebang, it can be rewritten in the installation script and is therefore considered an area of system administration.


I don't know, but it's been more reliable for me than /bin/bash. I think env is part of POSIX.

Exactly. Because Excel sheets have no tests or code review

Although this may be true, I'm not sure if it always matters. I mean sure, there are some high profile Excel failures that resulted in some big monetary losses, but the same has happened to hundreds of codebases written in a more traditional language that may have also had code review. Also, Excel CAN be reviewed as well. It's all just logic at the end of the day.

This argument usually comes from some IT group that takes like 2 years to do something for the users that get so frustrated that they do it themselves. Since the users are maintaining it, they're constantly reviewing it and are the ones with the most functional knowledge. An alternative IT group has to go to this same group anyway.


The title made me think of a real settlement on a real island. Nonetheless very interesting.

I hate the 7 because it just adds too much randomness to a strategy game.

I don't mind leaving some room for the Fates to influence a game, considering you're not entirely dependent on luck. Skillful players will still do better in the long run and just as in life anybody can have good/bad luck. You could change the roll to something other than a 7 to keep some element of chance with lower odds of it being an factor.

Man I have had a significant number of games where I have had a robber block my resources to the point where my turn is just a roll and then pass... For like 4-5 full cycles. And at that point I am playing for silly self imposed goals or to allow the game to keep going for the other players... Not for my own enjoyment.

It’s not exclusively bad luck, but a combination of another player’s strategy and yours. You didn’t deem it important enough to have a Knight to defend against it.

This is the case in most of Europe. Another reason is that cars are required to have red reflectors at the back, but no reflectors at the front.

The 100 people can transfer at a traik station into 10 different convinently timed buses.

I use Mastodon but with out retweets ("boosts") in my timeline, because some of it I find only marginally interesting. I can still find new accounts to follow by reading discussions under tootd.

I feel similarly about “boosting”, a lot of people who I follow that sometimes have worthwhile things to say in my opinion boost stuff that is utter trash leaving the question of do I unfollow the booster, mute the OP, block the OP, etc.

There are a few ways a toot can get boosted massively, politically oriented outrage is by far the most common.


I had the same issue.


What if Unicode updates some capitalization rules in the next version, and after an OS updates some filenames now collide and one of the is inaccessible?


I also have problems continuing with the right verse after the chorus of pop songs.


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