I have some insight into this domain (pun duly intended), I work for a foundation managing two ccTLDs. Once the ccTLD has been delegated to an entity it is very hard to get that back without the consent of all parties. Meaning unless the entity that now holds the delegation to manage the ccTLD agrees to sell it or give it back they generally won't lose it.
I know two people that spend some of their time writing COBOL for a major bank. They do find that part of the job pretty boring, it is basically just writing down SQL queries in a COBOL file and then trying to get passed their 50 year old development workflow (merge to master, then do testing in a testing environment, then get code review..).
The British Museum have somewhere on the order of 8 million objects. Having been collected since 1759 (and indeed before) in various state of being catalogued correctly at the time of collection.
The collection has survived new buildings being built (a time when stuff easily gets misplaced) and of course the ebbing and flowing of funding.
I would say that keeping that large of a collection of such a long time completely in order is a hard problem.
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The problem for Ukraine was that they didn't have that much control over the weapons.
The ability to launch them was only something Moscow could do (they might have been able to reverse engineer control and remove safeguards and the might not). They needed to have tritium replaced every 12 years and IIRC many of the nuclear forced remained loyal to Russia.
That's their bargaining position at the time and that's before we add the international pressure to get rid of them.
Not sure what logic you're imagining. No, it's not based on location of the weapons - it's based on the fact that the top nuclear research institutions of the Soviet Union were in Ukraine.
I said Ukrainian engineers built the nukes because that's what happened. Of course they did it as part of the Soviet Union - and yeah, some of the engineers were of the Russian ethnicity too.
I think everyone working in this space (i.e spaced repetition learning, tools for thought etc) should read Andy Matuschak (https://andymatuschak.org/). There is a lot to learn from his work.
If you'd tried going to fnac.nl or say use curl for a http request you'd see that it is in fact correct. Ping does not a http request make as they said in the olden days.
