how long until it gets used in terrorist attacks?

I mean, no need for a suicide mission when you can remote control this thing.

What could possibly go wrong?

The last VMS systems I used were phased out 1999 because of Y2K, as making the software run on them Y2K-proof wasn't worth the effort.

While I feel for the conservators of computer museums, I don't see why anyone would still want to port anything on there. I'll have to say "let it rest".

Bulls***. Trinity used ssh and nmap... kinda hard to do if there's no Internet. SSH was released 1995. nmap is from september 1997.

Also, were the Roc to hit supersonic speeds (none too likely), it would do so for a very short time only, before falling apart. It most certainly was not built to break the sound barrier.

You've pretty much nailed it, I had a very similar experience. Slackware, SuSE, Debian, later RHEL and SLES at work and (K)ubuntu at home, with a number of other distros and systems tested/used for a while.

Just the other day, I installed a VM with Ubuntu server... only to find quite a lot of stuff was put there as snaps. No thank you very much. I nuked the VM and went with good ol' Debian instead. Now, I'm still unhappy about their choice of init system, but so far I can deal with it... while eyeing Devuan.

(Still) Using kubuntu for a desktop, my main gripe is snap nagging me for firefox updates. Seriously? Let me do my apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade, and leave me alone.

While I'm at it (guess I'm getting old and grumpy): no, don't provide your software as docker image and make one run through hoops for a straight source install. I'm looking at you, ttrss.

GNU/Linux user since 1994.

With a name like that, why do I think of the Alien movies, and why oh why do I find that apt as applied to "AI" stuff?

Please, grant Niklaus Wirth his correct name.

I had the "honor" of following a course by him (digital design), a bit after already having had courses where the successors to Pascal, i.e. Modula-2 and Oberon (on Wirth's Ceres boxen), were used. Whereas Pascal was procedural only, Modula-2 was "modular" and Oberon object-oriented.

Earlier, Pascal was my first post-BASIC language, indeed using Turbo Pascal and BGI. I recall implementing Mandelbrot with exponents higher than 2, running several hours per picture on my 286 (no coprocessor). Even rewriting that into Turbo C didn't change much about runtime.

I was quite blown away by seeing the performance gotten by fractint, much later, or seeing the "desktop supercomputer" by Anton Gunzinger using several DEC Alpha chips doing real-time computation of a zoom into the Mandelbrot set that looked like a pre-recorded movie... good times.

Answer: there's hardly any, thanks to a functioning social security system. Those few remaining on the streets are those refusing the help they could get, for whatever reason. Those we do see are mostly organised day tourists that come begging and cross the border again in the evening. And near the main train station in Luxembourg city, a few drug addicts, not anywhere close to the issues you seem to have in the USofA.

As for the size question: do try it in smaller regions. If it works, copy/paste until you have the country covered.

Luxembourg & "extremely high taxes" - not really, especially when comparing to the neighboring countries. "return on invest" is quite high with the taxes we pay, considering much of it is going into such insignificant things as decent infrastructure or a social security that's worth its name. Sure it's not perfect, but still good.

Regarding "free" public transport - before becoming "free", it was already heavily subsidized, something like 80% of the cost was already on the state. Going all-out was a rather small additional expense. The system does mostly work, but it does turn out that cost to the user (or lack thereof) is only one aspect - convenience is key. If the routes and frequencies offered don't match your needs, you'll still use your own transport, and if there are regularly massive delays (trains to/from France in particular), people will try to find alternatives. Of course, sitting in traffic jams isn't fun either.

This!

Also, in France, a decidedly nuclear-friendly country, their production-scale natrium-cooled Superphénix got shut down for good, as it was way too much of a hassle.

From the description, it sounds like they're pretty much copying Climeworks.

Remember the hype around the Brent Spar, oil drilling platform that Shell wanted to sink? Greenpeace made a huge stink of it. And finally the platform got torn apart somewhere or other, at huge cost. It turned out that actually Shell had it right all along, the danger was minimal and sinking that rig would have been a good solution. I wonder if that's at least partly true here, too.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for nature, it's only sensible to protect the environment we live in. But I'm not for ideological extremists like those from Greenpeace, where the top brass exploits the gullability of their peons.

"My" first computer was a Dragon 32 owned by my brother. No disk (or tape) drive, so I had to hammer in my programs by hand. It was my first contact with a computer other than a video console (Atari VCS 2600). Also, I learned my first english from the computer's handbook.

I moved on to my own Atari ST 1040STF, which (at last) featured a 3 1/2" floppy drive, and had a (monochrome) screen, so no more hooking up to the TV. From there, I went on to PCs.

At school, we started out with the famous BBC micro (incl. Logo aka Turtle Graphics), but quickly also moved on to PCs.

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.