Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
That except. Though their wording about free people seems misguided in the context.
Is that a reference to a specific Justitia statue? Because I am pulling a blank on there being any french-made ones in the US, except for one at the courthouse in the Bronx. That one's by a french artist, but it doesn't have the scales or blindflold.
I don't see why today's chicken would necessarily be more stable than a chicken precursor. If you look at the way chickens changed in the last few decades, you'll probably find that it happened much faster than ever before, making them less stable, I'd argue.
Uh, Justitia is a Roman goddess?
OK, as a result of this, I went on a bit of a research trip, and found out that
a) Setzer is apparently just what you people call carbonated water, and, b) that that is because of fucking Selters, a brand of mineral water I could go out and buy in any random-ass supermarket. (Sure, if you wanna go into it, it's because that source has a kinda funky mineral mix, and because water from there has been bottled forever, but whatever.)
There isn't really any point or punchline here, I just think our world is very silly.
I'm sure it's a common enough occurrence in a community with lots of computer nerds.
I do recognise that there are a lot of usecases in which Linux isn't currently the sensible choice for most users, but I also feel the ready/not ready thing is quite as clear cut. While I'm obviously rather biased, I do genuinely think that there is a subset of casual users that would do better with Linux than with Windows.
I could talk about how Windows has been a lot more problematic for me than Linux, but that has been mainly down to driver issues with a specific network adapter, and we both know that isn't the reason I prefer Linux anyway.
I've put Fedora on my mum's pc after it became clear that Win10 will EoL soon, and that Win11 would refuse to run on it. Have had significantly fewer support requests since then.
Her work is mostly done via Citrix, which has an official Fedora Client. Everything else happens in the Browser, or sometimes in OnlyOffice, which so far has worked as a drop-in replacement for MS Office.
As always, it really depends on the use case.
I never got the motivation this "otherwise benevolent superintelligence" would have to behave like this. There seems to be absolutely no benefit whatsoever that could be derived retroactively punishing people for not working on it (hard enough). Whether or not it does is immaterial to the motivation of those who were convinced it might.
Also, focusing on one possible future scenario and completely ordering your life around it seems, like, dumb.
In theory, maybe. In practice, I've had a lot of errors in that vein that very much wouldn't go away, and where made much harder to diagnose by their obtuseness.
Honestly, I even dislike the mindset. Just make a big header with the generic error message and a little one below that gives some details. Having users interested in how your software works is not a bad thing.
I'm pretty sure that's a Suffren class, and there's both diesel and nuclear powered versions. Dunno how I'd tell from the outside, and don't think the caption is necessarily all that trustworthy.
And before that, it was British, founded by a German guy. Still headquartered in London. Do people from the US really think every relevant org is from there?
Well, they've been selectively bred over thousands of years, but mass farming has really sped it up.
https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/how-chickens-tripled-in-size/