I can see it happening. Amateur high power rocketry enthusiasts have already done a lot of this. Obviously this is still an order of magnitude harder than what the amateur guys have done, but if a group of amateurs have had these successes, there's no reason a well funded company could put it all together in a package, especially if they're being helped by the state.

Amateur rocket with waypoint guidance

Amateur rocket that reached 385,000' at 3,500MPH launched by the Civilian Space eXploration Team. Towards the end of the flight, you can see where the carbon fiber had started to delaminate on this one, but that's not a huge deal on something that's only designed to fly once.

And just for fun, here's a guy who's perfected getting model rockets to launch using thrust vectoring like SpaceX does.

Like I mentioned, these are all orders of magnitude easier than a hypersonic missile would be, but these were also all just amateurs doing this for fun (Although the CSXT guys did use their launch as a proof of concept and did wind up building a business around it).

How is this any different than Ford/GM/Stellantis/Tesla/etc... ?

I bought a Mac Mini with the M1 and 8GB of RAM solely to compile apps on for the app store. A few months ago, I decided to try using it as my main dev machine to see if I liked Mac OS because I'm thinking of switching to a MacBook.

That machine hasn't had any issues running JetBrains Rider as the IDE along with several docker containers. Sure it could be a little faster, but for the specs it has, it does amazingly well. I doubt Windows would even be able to open the IDE with 8GB of RAM, let alone the IDE actually being useful.

I have no idea how the CPU will handle tougher tasks, but Mac OS does surprisingly well with a low amount of RAM in my experience.

Isn't that just pressing the F11 key?

I have no doubt that applicants are asking about what tools are used and will be available.

But the only people looking at these tools as part of the compensation package are the executive team members. I don't even think middle managers would be stupid enough to look at this as part of the applicant's compensation.

That's a hell of a selling point for your cloud offerings, Amazon. Isn't that a big selling point of paying for "the cloud", not having to worry about things like backups?

The starting storage at 1TB is a nice change, especially in light of what storage costs are doing recently.

Talk is cheap, let's see them actually do it now.

Why do Excel/Word/Outlook need access to your location/camera/mic? Are you sure they're not asking for permission because they aren't using them?

Yeah, but who are you going to believe? Wakeboarder, or those wankers at NASA?

Buying a new one every two years, and you don't have to get a POS HP laptop.

These decisions are being made by people actively trying to destroy the United States from within.

I'm not saying that the orange idiot and majority of his cabinet are Russian stooges taking orders from Putin to destroy our country. But if we knew for a fact that he was, what exactly would he be doing differently than he is doing now?

And for fuck's sake, if I click on one of those news articles, open it in my default browser, not Edge!

Hasn't Exchange offered this for decades? Wasn't that one of the main "benefits" of locking yourself into the MS ecosystem?

What was so bad about the single player game? It was fine, and a lot of fun. It didn't get all of the additions that online got over the years, but considering the stupid shit like flying motorcycles that was added, that isn't really a bad thing.