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I think to blame/sue the company that is nearest to the user should work fine. (following is hyperbolical) If you don’t do it that way, then yes it would be slippery because the big bang would need to be sued. But that makes no sense.

Yeah. The only language I didn’t have the right version for in the past was python. I just wanted to make a joke about standards vs implementations.

I was thinking about bash scripts that use bash specific builtins. Some of those require >= x version.

The real problem is pride and greed. The wish for unlimited gains in an limited universe. But to be less abstract and more specific, it depends on the topic. I described a template, not a specific problem. Not every problem is easy to spot, but in transportation for example it is personal transportation via cars.

Efficiency is good, but as long as things don’t have 100% efficiency (which is impossible for everything besides heaters) it is still a question of limited resources.

Cars of any kind are not sustainable for every person to own and use, no matter what kind of energy source is used. This applies to a lot of areas. The wrong things get deliberately called the problem, so when companies fix these problems people are happy to buy the new products. But the new products are still part of the real problem. Don’t defend companies

I’m sorry but your example shows that we don’t solve shit. We search for new ways to get even more of the limited resources. We don’t search for solutions, but for ways to keep making easy money. We as in the most powerfull companies.

It worked on 0.17.4, but on 0.18.0 I get the error you get

; was missing

cat
while read -r l; do echo "$l"; done <

cat -e
while read -r l; do echo "$l"$; done <

cat -n
n=0; while read -r l; do n="$((n+1))"; printf '%5d %s\n' "$n" "$l"; done <

cat -b
n=0; while read -r l; do [ -n "$l" ] && n="$((n+1))" && printf '%5d %s' "$n" "$l"; echo; done <

For single file scripts you can use gist, some online note sharing website or if it is short paste it directly in a post or comment