I wonder how complex the UK tax code is, compared to the US tax code.
From what I've seen of the paper forms for a simple declaration of one salary, some charitable donations and expenses it's pretty similar for federal taxes. As she was not living in the USA my wife did not have any state taxes. I admit that many people have much more complex tax affairs so the comparrison may only hold for straightforward cases.
Creating software that is able to guide "regular" users through a complex tax system is hard.
The UK manages it. Most fields have help like "This is the figure in box 3 on your P60", the P60 is the end of tax year form that employers must give all employees.
Working like mad in your early career makes sense if you're getting compensated extra for doing so.
Unfortunately a lot of companies just make promises - work hard now and you'll be in a top position in the future with more pay and more free time. Needless to say it doesn't often happen.
I for one am still waiting for electric motorbikes - not scooters - from Honda. In the motorbike space, they have the brand-name that Toyota used to have for cars - i.e. reliable, good value bikes. I'd appreciate them to bring on electric models, as I consider a motorbike an excellent means for commuting, and charging a removable battery (Honda has standardized such with some other companies) at home or even at the office is not an issue. Range is not much of an issue, even if I'd appreciate enough for a short weekend tour. Some small companies have started offering such bikes, but I'd prefer a brand where I could have some confidence they'll still exist in a few years.
Alas, politicians around here (center of western Europe) only consider electric bikes (the sort with pedals) with corresponding parking options, and are discouraging people from driving motorcycles instead of seeing them as part of the solution to the traffic apocalypse - even if driving +-200kg makes a lot more sense than a 1500kg++ SUV, and motorbikes can participate in traffic rather than suffering it.
I know some people use DeNoise AI to reduce noise in their astro images. Would this compare to that? I'd love to try an open source variant on this anyway.
Going rapidly over the comments, it rather sounds like it's doing a sort of "dithering" - the technique astrophotographers use to take a series of pictures with slight offsets, so noise / hot pixels aren't always in the same place and can be "averaged out" during stacking.
I'll raise with Colossus: The Forbin Project.
These idiots will kill people to "save the planet"
in sufficient numbers, it would be a good way to save the planet!
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol