That doesn't seem like much of a cheat. That's more like a crutch.
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Apparently Italians don't give a fuck.
Not a damned thing in that article had anything at all to do with "chatbots".
If extraterrestrial, sapient alien life has been discovered here on Earth by the US government it was probably uncovered via signals intelligence gathering. Not via any sort of physical interaction or visual observation.
Everyone thinks that to find aliens you need to search the skies, looking for visual evidence or radio patterns. No one bothers to think that a mass surveillance network across the globe would pick it up first—from local sources. Meaning: They're already here and could have been for hundreds of thousands of years (or longer).
There's probably an autonomous alien monitoring station broadcasting information about Earth on the regular. Probably more than one.
Exactly the type of thing that would be investigated by signals intelligence analysts who spend their days trying to figure out, "WTF was that?" Looking at data gathered from all over the world (for spying reasons).
That's why Obama would laugh at the question of, "where are the aliens?" Because he wouldn't know! He'd just know that they're here... Somewhere. Probably just super advanced machines, connected to a quantum-level universe-wide network.
The real question to ask is, "are they enjoying our memes?"
Simple: Exfat does not support symbolic links. So every file that's just a symbolic link on your btrfs filesystem is getting copied in full (the link is being resolved) to your Exfat drive.
Solution: Don't use Exfat. For backups from btrfs, I recommend using btrfs with compression enabled.
Also don't forget to rebalance your btrfs partitions regularly to reclaim lost space! Also, delete old snapshots!
Articles like this are really just propaganda (wishful thinking) trying to soften the blow of Baumol's Cost Disease:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
Industries that benefit heavily from automation reduce costs over time. Industries that rely heavily on services (that require people to perform them) increase costs over time.
If you can somehow convert a big chunk of your economy into services from automated production, you can smooth out the difference in that economic curve. In theory, that means the rich (capitalists) can continue to get richer while everyone else's salaries flatten out.
It's total bullshit. The only logical end result of such a situation is the rich getting eaten sooner rather than later.
Smart rich people are (right now) lobbying to get their taxes increased to pay for a better social safety net. Stupid rich people are lobbying for bullshit like converting everything into a subscription economy.
Folks here jest, but this business model is coming to PCs next. Bookmark my words!
(Literally, you can right-click the perma-link to this message and have quick access to it later so you can reply, "Damn, you were right!" And post the link to big PC vendors suddenly offering a similar services because DRAM and GPUs have become so expensive, normal people can't afford to buy PCs anymore)
It's also pig-headed!
Forbidden chopsticks
You apparently missed the fact that I put that in both sections 😁
There's tons of regulations that are absolutely necessary and others that are bad and lock people in to bad things.
Example: It's impossible for someone to start their own competitor to Visa/MasterCard due to the regulations!
Of all the things to object to... This?
It's so silly! No matter what the panel concludes, the current Trump regime will just ignore it anyway. Just like they ignore the IPCC or polling or basic economics.
It'd be like the administration objecting to a panel being formed about vaccines, pollution, corruption, or authoritarianism. Clearly, they don't care so why bother? It just draws attention to their incompetence.
Just another loud demonstration of their incompetence, actually. Otherwise they wouldn't have objected.
Brush the chips off before they go into the MRI then!