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> There is a similar problem with drone pilots -- it took Ukraine and Russia years to scale up and get to the current level of skill. However, training drone controllers is cheaper…

The pacific theater is a way different combat environment then Ukraine. The ranges involved and china's IADS is just a whole different beast. The cheap drones that we have been see…

It says right in the article ~200 a year. The base scenario in recent war games, the US lost 270 aircraft total, of which 206 were USAF. Japan lost 112, Taiwan's air force effectiv…

> "At over eighty million dollars per airframe, with Lockheed Martin delivering fewer than two hundred aircraft per year across all variants and all customers worldwide, there is n…

I assume in this case they already had a bunch of firewall rules for PF and switching from OpenBSD -> FreeBSD is a much easier lift then going to linux because both the BSDs are us…

Agreed, its one of the many reasons I cant wait for the shift from ICE vehicles to EVs, they are just so much quieter.

Umm each plane cost way less than 1.7 Billion. A F35A can be purchased for around $80 million. The 1.7 trillion figure is the cost of research & development, purchasing about 1700 …

For a military, non WW2 plane, 1000 aircraft is a lot. The US government plans on buying around ~1700 F35 and US allies have orders for another ~1000 F35. Overtime I would expect t…

China has built a couple HTR SMR[1] and is also currently building a PWR SMR[2]. And in the United States, Nuscale is looking to have the UAMPS project starting to supply energy in…

Have you been to a Fred Myers recently? It's amazing how much stuff in the meat and dairy sections are not available anymore.

Public health officials should tread carefully otherwise they risk alienating large segments of the population. Which would inturn be bad for public health.

I love my 2017 Ford Focus RS! It has a touch screen but besides for that there's no lane assist, automatic breaking, or any other driver assists. I also love that it is a manual, h…

I guess it depends on where you work. I have "unlimited pto" and over the last 5 years I've taken at least a month a year.

So you want country wide restrictions solely for your own comfort? Sounds incredibly selfish.

Your health Minister seems to be spreading misinformation.

> The Ford Focus (including the RS version) is popular in Europe. However, as an owner of such a car, I only get raised eyebrows around here Really? I own a 2017 Ford Focus RS in t…

> Did you read the article? Not everyone wants to go back to how things were before? Simple things like not having people stand on top of me in line. There was a year of no social …

> There could be interesting thoughts about social interaction changing and people are yet again arguing about covid restrictions. Why would or should social interactions change? I…

Apparently bhyve will be replacing KVM going forward, this article has a list of reasons[1]. [1]: https://omnios.org/info/bhyve

My understanding is you will use a API to provision virtual machines on top of the Oxide hypervisor/software stack, which is bhyve running on Illumos. So you can still just run you…

Proximity to nature? Sacramento is near the Tahoe area as well as the rest of the Sierra Nevada range. Proximity to nature is one area where Sacramento resoundingly beats the Bay a…

Interesting, as someone who got vaccinated the first day it was available to all adults in Utah(3/24), I'm surprised that this news changed any ones mind. But either way I'm glad i…

12 - 15 years olds can now get the Pfizer vaccine in the United States[1]. That should help a lot. [1]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/fda-authorizes-pfize...

> I have a belief that human ingenuity will be able to generate truly clean power. There's no such thing as truly clean power. Even renewables have huge environmental consequences.…