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The facts seem kind of light here. Sounds like Boeing essentially did further "due diligence" using privileged information, decided the whole concept wasn't viable and wasn't afraid to share that information.

Given that buying companies is the only way such a calcified company can expand its product base, you'd expect them to be better at it...

The Queenslander house style was built for large blocks that had sufficient airflow, they were built to be cheap and don't work properly with modern block sizes. While they are iconic, and have some great design features, the lack of insulation is not one of them. A modern well insulated house with a heatpump + solar is extremely energy efficient and comfortable in all weather.

It might have been originally designed to kill tanks, but it's incredibly well suited to current asymmetric warfare.

- Massive Payload capacity; it's a missile truck, 5x what a reaper can bring.

- Cannon can hit infantry in closer quarters than any explosive missile/bomb.

- Armoured and extremely tough, designed to survive small arms fire, loss of wing, loss of engine.

AC-130 might be the king of CAS but it's also crewed by 13 people and has a top speed half that of a hog... which is important when people need support _now_.

The US airforce don't like the A-10 because it's a platform that primarily does grunt work for the army and they'd rather spend that money on their own missions.

Yeah a mast or tethered transmitter probably they way to go, but now you have the problem of operating both a submarine and a pseudo surface vessel.

Nothing insurmountable, but it's not as simple as running under everyone which is what the article implied (to me atleast).

I love the concept of submarine cargo ships but there are three main issues that make them less appealing than ships.

Subs require significantly more thrust per cubic metre of cargo.

Communication and navigation are more difficult because GPS and satellite comms don't work underwater.

Loading and unloading in comparable times to a standard container vessel.

Stop Death Shaming 5 years ago

People are angry. They see vaccine refusers as prolonging the pandemic and putting their loved ones/everyone at risk for nothing.

That explanation makes sense, if it's been in work for so long it's probably difficult internally to get the resources to bring it into line with current expectations.

Unfortunately v1 will probably bomb in its current state and we won't see the proper potential of the device.

Conceptually and form factor wise this looks good, but those bezels just make the whole device look outdated.

I'd probably recommend Gatsby, it's super flexible, has great documentation, tons of plugins and includes good defaults.

I've previously used hugo to build some customer sites. It's super quick to build, but we ended up replicating a bunch of work that Gatsby has support for like image optimisation, minification, etc.

Netlify is a good hosting option if you're not married to S3.

It's fairly standard for rendering/games engines to support native graphics apis, they're built to be cross platform.

Not to mention machine learning is a totally different market, using OS X on workstations would be counterproductive as there isn't any feasible server solutions to run production data on.

Also the Tegra chips aren't irrelevant, they're powering the switch and extremely popular for drone/robotics application processors.

This entire article is biased beyond belief.