What a load of bullshit. I want to see AI deal with "unprecedented minor emergency no. 42069" while simultaneously serving drinks and reassuring someone that everything is alright, no need to panic and/or start a fight. Physical jobs will be the safest anyway.

Also, "historian"? What the fuck? AI is spectacularly bad at doing even passable science with any accuracy, and in a discipline so nuanced and inherently biased as history? No chance at doing anything remotely science-y. Maybe it can replace the writers of pop-history articles with its surface level rendition of established facts, but even those are supposed to be entertaining and not lifeless, boring slop. Then again, most historians are struggling to find a job anyway, so not much of a change here.

But yeah, most translaters are screwed. Turns out, large LANGUAGE models are pretty good at transforming languages. Sure, legally binding translations might need some human oversight and quality literature translations might hold out a bit as well, but largely, that is one job that I believe has been in steady decline and will continue so.

For a senior paramedic, a multi-car crash with people screaming all around is probably just another Monday, while I do get quite disturbed by seeing things that are supposed to be inside the body. Not that I couldn't stand blood, it's just wrong, and sets of the same pre-historic monkey alarm bell as big spiders and unusual amounts of fecal matter.

While I believe you can learn to push through most of that, different people have different tolerances for different things at different times. Plus, "I can handle this" is different from "I enjoy watching this right now". I would be pretty happy to have a gore warning when watching something while eating, for example. Or a warning about a super depressing story when I am feeling down anyway.

Careful. There are levels to it, and from stories that I heard, those levels don't always communicate with each other. If you get the regular "normal cops", then no, they won't know anything more than the average joe about computers.

If get in deep enough shit, you might get a visit from the specialised cops, either the state or federal variety, and those guys know what they are doing.

If it's proven that you did it, you are getting locked up anyway.

In 99% it is better to not say anything or indict yourself

Edit: ah, misunderstood you, with "did that" you mean turn off the computer, not whatever crime you are accused of. I'd still disagree, but only based on anecdotes, go ask a lawyer, I guess

I think the key is having some nice verbal sparring. And like with sparring, both parties accept that it's just for fun and nobody is supposed to get hurt. That's why it very easily flips from being funny to being mean if one party doesn't adhere to the unwritten rules.

I can only assume she spoke from experience

They live in a world where 700 million people are currently starving. Do you think you care about the washing machines if your children have nothing to eat?

$ sudo pagan ritual
sudo: pagan: command not found

PS: I am appropriately sad that I am a person that knows linux and not a person that visits moonlit naked dancing rituals. Meh, you can't have it all.

how it punishes ~~gender~~ non-conformity

Fit the mold or die. Always the same.

Get a nice cup of tea and calm down. I literally never said or implied any of that. Why do you feel that you need to personally attack me in particular?

All I said was that a supposedly easy topic turned into reading a lot of obscure code and papers which weren't really my field at the time.

For the record, I am well aware that the state of embedded system security is an absolute joke and I'm waiting for the day when it all finally halts and catches fire.

But that was just not the topic of this work. My work was efficient memory management under a lot of (specific) constraints, not memory safety.

Also, the root problem is NP-hard, so good luck finding a universal solution that works within real-life resource (chip space, power, price...) limits.

Except that the degree I did this for was in electrical engineering :(

You are literally describing the idea of Debian. Yes, stable is old, but that is the whole purpose. You get (mostly) security updates only for a few years. No big updates, no surprises. Great for stuff like company PCs, servers, and other systems you want to just work™ with minimal admin work.

And testing is, well, for testing. Ironing out bugs and preparing the next stable. Although what you describes sounds more like unstable, the one where they explicitly say that they will break stuff to try out other stuff.

So, everything works as intended and advertised here. If you want a different approach to stability, I guess you will have to use a different distro, sorry.

I guess when you last tried it, it was at a time when a new stable came out, so testing was more or less equal to stable.

About the firefox: It ships Firefox ESR these days, meaning you get an older, less often updated tested firefox (with security updates, of course). Again, this is the whole point. Less updates, less admin work, more time to find and fix bugs. Remember the whole Quantum add-on mess, for example?

As others have said, you can install other versions of firefox (like the "normal" one) via flatpak, snap... nowadays. The same goes for other software, where you would need the newest and shiniest version sooner. I'm using debian on my work/uni laptop and a bunch of servers, and it works pretty well for me.