This missile, just like all missiles, is just a glorified engine and a guidance system. Therefore it is a lot more maneuverable than a jet, be it Chinese or French. It even has a term called the "no-escape zone" beyond which a plane can't escape the missile.
The pilot error therefore comes down to bad tactics/strategy and allowed themselves to get within that zone.
Whatever you think of the indian military losing planes when they have the attacker's disadvantage and strict orders not to escalate the conflict by preemptively destroying the anti-air defenses and such, the error happened likely before the missile was even launched. And even then, the rafale is one of the most manoeuverable pmanes in the world, due to its innate aerodynamic instability that's tamed by a complex fly-by-wire system. If one plane had a chance to escape the missile, it was the rafale.
Yes, due to pilot error. Only a single jet was provably downed and India said they were perfectly happy with the performance of the jet.
China is in conflit with India, they want the worst outcome possible for them, which would be to make the Rafale, which wins air competitions left and right, irrelevant.
What's the exclusion zone of rare earth mines ? Of the terrible chemicals required to extract those products ? Same question with the batteries. What's the impact of the shade on agriculture ? How about all the steel, concrete and composites on the environment, how do they degrade ? Is it in micro plastics ?
I didn't say nuclear energy was good, just that solar panels are worse. The perfect energy source doesn't exist but currently all the data I've come across points to the direction that nuclear is significantly better than all other renewables and don't require significant battery storage.
Also if anti-science ecologists hadn't blocked so many fast neutron reactors, we'd be further along to a tech that can burn existing thorium stockpiles for 8000 years without further mining and while producing significantly less dangerous waste than current reactors. I guess we'll just buy the design from China and Russia who didn't stop the research and have currently operating reactors right now.
Imagine a piece of malware using that same API to spy on other programs...
There'd need to be a way for a user to tell the kernel which app can do that, and that's a lot of trust to put into a fleeting app that'll stop working when too few micro transactions are being done and too much trust to put into a user which may may be giving this permission to random programs, which may sometimes be evil.
You're right, although I'd be considering narrower cards and maybe blowers. This is a server build, not a main rig. So I'd get a GPU that's as close as possible to a glorified encoder ad possible and pocket the power savings. I don't have ac where I live...
If OP need compactness, maybe micro atx or mini itx could help.
Although I've been thinking about doing like that I haven't found a good cheap compact case for mass HDD storage, pcie expansion for network upgrades and GPU installs...
Am blue no matter who. May he rot in hell.