Which is even worse, given the promise the SB-1 Defiant program was showing. I have a hard time imagining how the V-280 is supposed to land in narrow canyons or a jungle. It's wide af, and has massive propellers.
The biggest benefit to the V-280 over the V-22 is that (for now) they aren't planning to have the V-280 fold up like the Osprey, which eliminates a large amount of the mechanical complexity in the V-22.
The work we do doesn't actually get pushed to contractors. Rather, we just keep taking delays and moving deadlines, none of which helps us maintain our national security posture. It has the potential to be a very serious problem.
Your point about the skyrocketing cost to taxpayers is accurate, however.
As I understand it, it's a 4.7% base level increase, with an additional average of 0.5% across all locality areas. So some will see an actual raise of over 5.2%, some less. But on average, it'll be about 5.2%>
I work for the federal government, and some parts of my department have lost 50%+ of their engineers to Boeing and Blue Origin in the last few years. That is completely unsustainable attrition, and yet our leadership does jack shit to try to increase our compensation (there are ways, but it takes damn near an act of Congress, or more likely, an act of God). And our leaderships atrocious attempts at dealing with the attrition problem are just driving more engineers away.
So to summarize, republicans are anti-federal workforce and are also lying sacks of shit.
They were enrolled, but due to a truly tragic series of events, during a global pandemic no less, the kids were "disenrolled" by the school district, and their mother faced a massively uphill battle to reneroll her children, in large part because the system is setup to punish the poorest among us. Too poor to afford a car? Good luck getting to a doctor in order to get required physicals done. And it goes on and on.
Are we really still considering SCMP a reliable news source? It's a heavily pro-beijing publication, and tends to interpret absolutely everything in as pro-china as possible.
They're giving away things to get people to rely on those tools. As soon as they have a majority market share, they'll start charging. It's the same bullshit every company that provides a tool or service for free eventually does. They have to have money coming in to keep the lights on, so they run a huge loss and gamble that eventually they'll make it big. Fuck Epic, and fuck monopolies.
After a point, yes. However, that point comes when the sensor you are adding is more than the second type in the system. The correct answer is to work into your algorithm a weighting system so the car can decide which sensor it trusts to not kill the driver, i.e. if the LIDAR sees the broadside of a trailer and the camera doesn't, the car should believe the LIDAR over the camera, as applying the brakes and speeding into the obstacle at 60mph is likely the safer option.
I'm not particularly sure how it works in the UK, but in the US, the two main ways of showing mastery of a subject to an employer are either having relevant experience in the field (a portfolio of coding projects for a software engineer, or design projects for a mechanical, or just having relevant experience on the resume) or holding a degree from an accredited university.
MIT (and several other higher education schools in the US) offer course materials online for free. The tradeoff, of course, is you don't get a degree, but as far as teaching yourself the topic, it's not a bad way to go. You could then work on projects that let you apply that new knowledge, and show those as proof of competency.
Or the good ol' fake it till you make it, and just lie outright on your resume, banking on the fact that everyone is useless right away, and they'll teach you what you need to know pretty quickly. (I don't recommend this, but it is technically an option)
Knowing the US military Logistics, that won't be a diversion; it'll be an addition. A friendly reminder that we deployed Fucking ice cream barges, barges with the singular purpose of making ice cream, to the South Pacific during WW2.
Supposedly a Japanese POW saw the barges, and knew at that moment that the war was lost, as the US could afford to supply servicemembers with ice cream, while Japan was facing widespread rationing and food shortages at home. (But I can't find any confirmation of this story)
Is this the part where we start up the rumours again that Mike Johnson is anti-MAGA by trying to protect the FBI from Trump vigilantes by only blurring out the faces of informants, and just seeing what happens? Chaos for the sake of chaos?
Most of the time, watch band sizes are given by the width of the strap (i.e 20mm or 22mm). You (or any jeweler) can measure that dimension on the watch face, and then it should be super easy to find a compatible replacement. For the most part, the locking mechanism for attaching the band to the watch is very standardized (spring loaded barrel pin), and while they can be fiddly, generally they are fairly easy to work with.
Whether Vietnam or the Philippines has a more solid legal claim is, frankly, up to them to figure out. The country who has zero legal claim , however, is China. So they can fuck right off.
Nuclear is 100% the future. It provides the highest energy density (i.e. it produces the most kwh/square mile), and is also the safest and most environmentally friendly form of power generation we have right now. The downside is the amount of time it takes to bring reactors online. Make no mistake, the time cost is a feature, not a bug. There are phenomenally stringent requirements and QC checks that must be met in order to ensure public and environmental safety. However, this also means that nuclear is not the solution right now. What we should be doing is constructing wind, solar, tidal, etc. plants to transition away from fossil fuels in the immediate future, while simultaneously beginning construction on nuclear plants, so we can eventually transition to those.
Does the EGS store even have a shopping cart feature yet?