The various things you've said over the years make most of us call everything you say into question. As to the why, we don't know why you would do that, attention maybe? I guess burning your personal reputation for so long has this small consequence, but I'm not worried, I don't think it will alter your behavior in the slightest.

A drought climate is not simply a binary state, an either you is or you ain't. There is nuance here, and we have seen a shift in the drought cycles over the last 100 years.

That's already done to a degree. But changes in the drought cycle hinder that. And addition of some invasive species had made it impossible in some areas. Invasive brooms blaze out of control even when trying to clear away a single season of growth. So it must be cut out first, which takes time and man power.

Interesting idea. I mean there are some snags, like that children ride bikes too. And if the smoke gives them a life-long respiratory disease then society will be on the hook paying for it. Either because your nation has taxpayer funded healthcare, or because private insurers will have to raise premiums in order to maintain profits.

I mean I used to run `xscreensaver -root` on Linux some 25 years ago as a novelty, but this is cool too.

That's what we do here. But we suspend controlled burns during drought. Dang climate change making forest management trickier than it was 2,000 years ago.

Yea, my Dad has a landscape rake for his Cub Cadet. And you can scale the concept up in size.

Of course, a landscape rake is not going to work in the coastal forests here. It will get hung up on coyote brush and roots. And coastal redwoods grow in tight clusters, where even a hand rake is not easily brought between them. (I helped my neighbor clear up his "yard" of 40 redwoods. It looks beautiful now and a local couple had their wedding there shortly after).

For me, a brush cutter on the front of a skid steer vehicle is the only way to manage my property. Essentially what looks like a mower deck that sits in front of a tracked vehicle. The deck has an array of polygonal blades and it'll cut through small trees and chop up brush into chunks a few inches in length. From there they can be spread out to decompose or raked up and bagged to move elsewhere. I have a lot of invasive species, so we left it in place to avoid spreading broom to new locations during transport.

Ack, dang unicode quotes got me!

Youâ(TM)ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forests, itâ(TM)s very important.
Finland is a forest nation. And they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they donâ(TM)t have any problem.

Sure, Jains have an entirely different reason. But the other religion I was referring to was some schools of Buddhism

Some. But a few other religions don't eat onions and garlic. My understanding are these hot and tasty foods arouse carnal desires in those that eat them. But for some practitioners the are not supposed to fulfil their material desires.

Perhaps expert politicians.

50 years of shutting down American manufacturing has ensured that strategy is no longer viable for us. The US is a tech and service economy, and there is no way to go back in time without racing to the bottom of the world economically.

A chip that I played with a long time ago can only be programmed through 32-bit register access (limitation of the ARM bus). The address space for I/O peripherals can run out quickly and it's a hassle to move or expand them later. So a lot of small values get tightly packed into the register map. Here's one used for filter coefficients for the display.

Horizontal scaling filter is a 6-tap filter with 4-bit positional phase.
* Coefficients 0 and 5 are 3-bit signed value ranging from -4 to 3.
* Coefficients 1 and 4 are 5-bit signed value ranging from -16 to 15.
* Coefficients 2 and 3 are 8-bit unsigned value ranging from 0 to 128.
* Coefficient 0 is the multiplier for the earliest pixel (P0) in the group of 6-pixel and
* Coefficient 5 is the multiplier for the latest pixel (P5) in the group. The output pixel positional phase is defined as centered in P2 if the positional phase is 0 or proportionally in between P2 and P3 if the positional phase is larger than 0.

(source: 29.10.2 DC_WINC_A_PALETTE_COLOR_EXT_0)

Great news for Canada, Australia, UK, and EU. They have a vibrant tech culture and it will suddenly get a new influx of labor that can bring about a lot of profit for many businesses.

Trump is playing a loser's strategy at globalization. Ultimately the stakes for him personally are low. But your average working class American is going to be hit hard when the money dries up for the fastest grown and fourth largest industry by revenue in the US, the information technology industry.

The system seems kind of ridiculous to me. I had a score of 850 back in June, and lost 24 points when I applied to get prequalified for a mortgage so I could put together an offer letter for a house.

Why? Because AI is the wave of the future. It's about capturing users and market share.

Do users actually want any of this? No. Because it's not a useful feature to any of us users.
But users are going to tolerate almost anything to have a free web browser.