My needs are much more modest. Mine is a home environment and which includes a backup file server which I migrated from MDRAID to ZFS (RAIDZ2) a couple years ago. I also have a remote server colocated at my son's place where I keep a mirror of my home (backup) server. I used to use `rsync` to mirror data from the local backup set to the remote server. There were two problems with that. First, `rsync` needed to examine both data sets to determine what had changed. Second, `rsync` cannot preserve hard links when copying large data sets. My disk management strategy included deduplicating some files via hard links. ZFS solved both issues. Sending incremental backups reduces network usage to only change data (as opposed to identifying changes first, then sending.) Second, since ZFS send/receive duplicates filesystems instead of files, hard links are preserved when transferring to the destination. In addition to these benefits, I appreciate the extra processing that preserves file integrity in the data sets (and yes, both servers are populated with ECC RAM and are on server motherboards/systems.)

My second use for ZFS was on a then new XPS-13. I could not get Killer WiFi working with Debian Stretch. Debian Buster was still "Testing" and not having ever used Testing, I installed to ZFS on Root so that I c,mirrould roll back should a package upgrade cause problems. It turned out that the only time I used this was when a kernel upgrade required ZFS utilities not yet in the repos. There are other ways to manage this but the easiest for me was to roll back. Buster is now Stable and when I upgraded the SSD on my laptop I reinstalled using ZFS native encryption.

ZFS has been much more than a buzzword for me. I understand Torvald's refusal to include it in the kernel until (and when) the license issues are resolved. I'm a little disappointed in him dissing something that he apparently knows little about.

Perl doomed? <sobs softly>

<sigh> Been using Python lately anyway.

As an aside, UL standards are proprietary. You have to pay to see them. What standard is met? The public doesn't know. ... Nope - apparently no longer true. https://www.reliableplant.com/... (But perhaps only in the US.)

Already happening: https://hackaday.com/2019/04/0...

For those who would prefer to see the actual announcement rather than discussion of it on an add ridden site with auto-play video you can go to
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/news...

Right up there with a previous article "... the 4g/5g Solution We've Been Waiting For."

I'm not a gamer and do not follow the market for gaming laptops. (I actually do have one gaming laptop, a Lenovo Y50 and it's crap. No more sound, no more SD card slot, housing cracked by hinges and garbage screen to begin with, but I didn't buy it for gaming.)
His statement just seems to have that air of "I really hope this happens because the market for crypto mining has fallen off a cliff."

> No matter how you draw the line, you could probably draw it better by some criterion.
Agreed.
I suspect the exclusion zone was much larger than required to avoid exposure until they could see where the hazards existed. It seems to me that the exclusion zone could be re-evaluated and potentially reduced without allowing habitation right up to the edge of a hot spot. However if the entire area is at risk from the dust raised from a building collapsing or similar, perhaps not much space would be regained.

> What has changed in the US is that labor intensive products are not built in countries with low labor costs.

I'm pretty sure you meant "... are now built in countries ..." Not so subtle difference in meaning. ;)

Pretty interesting comments about the status of manufacturing in the US. I suspect you are correct.

> 3) Humans control legislatures and can easily regulate automation in places should it become necessary.

I'd be concerned about that, particularly in light of the previous answer. Legislatures are more likely to develop rules based on vested interests than try to understand what will benefit the population as a whole.

I think shiny is the more important "engineering criterion."

It was pretty spooky the first time I saw it. This was on the UP and after dark. Just outside Oglvie there are a *lot* of turnouts and they are all heated with crude gas sparges. The windows are tinted so it is hard to see anything in the dark. All I could see was a bunch of flames dancing at ground level. I did a double-take until I figured out what it was.

I think they could get more efficient results with proper burners and temperature control, but that would also involve more parts to fail. I'm guessing an inventive track maintenance worker ran a propane line to a piece of pipe with holes drilled along the length. They probably refined it until they had something that was reliable and stopped development there. I'm guessing they converted to natural gas as a more reliable fuel at some point (no tanks to refill.)

Maybe. Technology developed elsewhere might not be obvious to us. After all, silicon is just manipulated rock. What we've done with it is obvious to us but who knows what it will look like 100 years from now, let alone 1000, 10,000 etc.

Manipulating the futures market on the morning when the report was to be released by providing a fake report to a competitor. And in the process ruining Mortimer and Randolph Duke.

A nuclear engineer tells us that nuclear energy is the solution. Who could have guessed.

I suppose that there is valid information in his claims and conclusions, but it is important to consider his training when interpreting his recommendations. I find it a bit disingenuous that this is not identified in the summary and what little of the article I can see from this side of the paywall doesn't mention it.

I discovered The Expanse last year and really looked forward to Season 3. I was not disappointed. I've also read some of the books and they seem to have a *lot* of material to continue.

I also watched some "Parts Unknown" and have to give a nod to Anthony Bourdain - RIP. I can't say that this was one of the best shows on TV but it did touch me. I'm watching the end of the Seattle episode which gives me chills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...