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• Old stty's (from V7 through BSD4. 3) used stdout, but this is suboptimal and doesn't conform to POSIX. —  Frequently Asked Questions About Linux v1.17
• For instance, natural evils or apparently suboptimal designs might suggest e.g., an amateur designer or a committee of designers. —  Teleological Arguments for God's Existence
• Or at least we think that an adult has a minimal capacity to make choices which the child lacks, even if a particular adult throughout her life makes suboptimal choices. —  Children's Rights
• He thinks that they should be set aside in favor of direct appeal to the principle of utility when following them would be clearly suboptimal or when there is a conflict among secondary principles. —  Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy
• If he cannot reliably identify in advance those cases where adherence to the rule would be suboptimal or if he is not sufficiently fine-grained psychologically to deviate from the rule here where doing so is optimal without deviating from the rule in other cases where it is not, then he will do more good by following the rules uncritically even though he knows that by doing so he will perform some suboptimal actions. —  Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy

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