Yes, I’ll name my child parent. This will reverse the tree, vertically.

https://forgefed.org/

Processors might no longer get twice as fast every few years, but now we can use the power of servers to write software that runs even slower.

Depends on whether you installed arch on the plane yet.

The first panel is popular media, not computer scientists.

The computer scientist would write papers about how they adapted principles of the alien technology to our stuff.

There’s a description field, could people please start putting a link to the original xkcd, i.e. https://xkcd.com/979/ in this case? It’s not that hard.

Without attribution you’re just doing copyright infringement (see also https://xkcd.com/license.html). And you’re hiding useful and nice information like the title text, the title, an the xkcd number, which you can use to get a transcription and an explanation on explainxkcd.