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One example is Musk Thistle. It grows extremely rapidly, reproduces at a rate that's unbelievable, and is very difficult to kill. In this heavily farmed region, a few of them growing in a roadside ditch can turn into tens/hundreds of thousands of them within a year. Not only do they outcompete just about any other plant including crops, but they have incredibly sharp barbs that injure livestock.

In publicly owned spaces or abandoned fields/lots, the county has people that searches for them and sprays them with a herbicide. If they're spotted on your private land, usually they'll notify you that you have X days to cut them down (before they flower and seed) or they'll come do it whether you want them to or not. Some counties will send a bill for this, some fund it from property taxes.

If you haven't lived in an area where they vigorously grow it sounds like a huge overreaction, but left uncontrolled because one neighbor isn't taking care of it, it can become impossible to keep it out of your yard. According to wikipedia, a single plant can produce 10,000 seeds that disperse through the wind and remain viable for decades in the soil. Even the desire to not have a painful rapidly reproducing weed in your yard aside, they can do incredible damage to cropland.

It's a shame though, it's a kinda pretty flower. Imagine a vivid pink sunflower.

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This is an in-browser ARM PC emulator, running an ARM port of MS-DOS 4 with full accurate PC hardware (VGA graphics, Sound Blaster, IDE, etc) and a ton of software ported to a very DOS-like ABI running ARM instructions. Off-the shelf games and applications like Doom, Quake, the GEM desktop and more were ported and recompiled for ARM-DOS.

Clones of many DOS applications were created, like a full Turbo C style IDE (with TinyCC as a compiler) or a pretty extensive QuickBasic like IDE are there.

You can launch TERM (a ProComm like terminal emulator) and dial a BBS, that runs as an entire second ARM-DOS PC in your browser and upload/download things and play door games. There's a second early AOL-like dialup service that lets you access real Wikipedia and Hacker News over the authentic speed modem - and even view images full screen and watch the re-encoded GIFs slowly download.

There's also a full Rosetta-like JIT converter. You can take most stock X86 DOS applications and just run them.

This is part an exploration of 80's PC nostalgia, and part a tech demo of what an IBM ARM PC could have been. Then trying to see how over the top this idea could be taken within the confines of a browser.

https://kevin.day/armdos/ to play with this https://kevin.day/armdos/docs/ for manuals and more info

But on any modern CPU there should be essentially no penalty for doing that now. Testing the full register is basically free as long as you aren't doing a partial write followed by a full read (write AH then read AX), and I don't think there's any case where this could stall on anything newer than a Core 2 era processor. But just replacing that with a "jnc" or whatever you're exactly trying to test for would be less instructions at least. I'd love to see benchmarks though if someone has dug deeper into this than I have.

I kept telling it to debug the problem, and that I had confirmed that database file was not the problem. It kept trying to rm the file after it noticed the code would recreate it (although with no data, just an empty db). I thought we got past this debate until I wasn't paying enough attention and it added an "rm db.sqlite" line into the Makefile and ran it, since I gave it permission to run "make" and didn't even consider it would edit the Makefile to get around my instructions.

for more background. The short story is that when doing CNAME based validation, they were supposed to put an underscore at the start of the random string for you to add to your DNS records. They still generated sufficiently random strings but didn't include a _ before it which is in violation of the RFC. The rationale is that some sites might do something like give you control of yourusername.example.com and they don't want to make it possible for random users to register the random string and be able to manipulate it. If you don't allow users to generate anything that causes a hostname to appear with a leading underscore, they can't pass the domain validation.

This is a slightly better and more detailed version of this story.

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I appreciate the sentiment, but new devices being sold that still don’t support WPA3 means the adoption of 6GHz is going to be a very slow process.

More info here since this is surprising to many: https://www.extremenetworks.com/resources/blogs/wireless-sec...

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OpenBSD uses pdksh, Busybox/NetBSD/Minix use ash, there are some linux distros that use zsh, OpenSolaris is ksh, etc.

This was later improved with things like chunked encoding and caching the compressed output on the server side, but they came later and weren't always supported or desirable.