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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.

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.