Mod parent up. Same here - the immigrants' English is better than the natives'. Oh and math and Science too.

Nuclear won't help either. Even if we started to build nukes like there's no tomorrow (not that we can afford it) it wouldn't fix anything. The energy trap has closed. 40 years ago was the time to act.

Oh noes! That would make driving more expensive! Can't have that - I'd rather wait until my McMansion in the 'burbs is way underwater and I can't afford to drive any more. Detroit, here I come! Until then, happy motoring! Oh and James Howard Kunstler doesn't exist.

"Nuke it from orbit" was my first thought too.
But seriously, you'll need a lot of explosives to knock out a wildfire. Unless you detect it right after it ignited, it'll be at least acres in size and everything will be ready to re-ignite so you have to blow it out all at once.

That would be good since Intel's CPUs are only getting 10% faster each generation.

Bravo. I wish I had mod points. Running an OS off a USB stick is not exactly novel - it's been done for years. I can remember my first experiments with Knoppix and a persistent home directory, maybe 5 or 6 years ago.
The one thing that's novel is exploting this idea to make money.

Nonsense. Code does routing and floor planning, it doesn't design two-core modules.

Oh and in the current designs the automatic layout saved significant real estate and power compared to hand layouts.

The article you refer to is utter bullshit.

It has the ability to do RBD Snapshots, it's not a perfect solution but it does work. We're actually in the process of building a Ceph system for testing of climate modeling data. https://ceph.com/community/blo...

Oh no! Neither MS nor Apple? What has the world come to? How are the students going to be good software consumers? They might even begin to write their own programs! Heavens, they'll al become evil hackers!

I guess I'll stick to fish and dairy.

Replace all coal/nat gas burning power plants, all trucks, ships and airplanes within one year? Citation needed.

80% of primary energy is fossil today. How long will it take to turn that around, given that most people resist?

You don't even need to postulate global conflict. Energy depletion will be sufficient.

I grew up splitting wood with a single bit axe instead of a maul and wedge(all hardwood, maple, oak, cherry, beech, ash). I could hit like the fist of an angry god with an axe because I could get a lot more velocity out of it, plus if you've ever swung a splittle maul that weighs in at six pounds-ish you get really tired really really fast. All that being said this is a great design.

Having grown up splitting enough wood to fill a 30'x30'x10' wood shed every year(not all of it was split but a lot was) and all of it by hand because I grew up poor as dirt I can tell you that it's not as bad as you think. The way this thing rotates is actually how you should split wood anyway, it just takes a ridiculous amount of practice to get it right. With a more traditional single bit axe(no maul, too heavy to swing for hours like I used to) you come down as hard as you can and then right at the moment of impact twist to transfer some of the inertia laterally causing a wider split. The only thing this changes is makes it a hell of a lot easier to do and more efficient because you can get consistent results.