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Does anyone read blogs anymore? Social media seems to have completely replaced them.

Is it simple? Maintaining context seems extremely difficult with LLMs.

Its just another iteration of snap, docker, etc. Basically allows you to create a platform independent distribution of a windows app by sacrificing storage space and a little bit of performance.

Many in the racing community share his opinions. All these things seem to accomplish is making you hot.

They can write the proposals to do so and if it gets picked up by a VP and approved, then they can cite that on their promo.

What does any of that have to do with your stance that carrying with a safety on is just as effective? When root causing problems, it's important to compartmentalize. Whether or not someone should carry a firearm is completely orthogonal. Especially in this instance where clearly it makes sense for military security forces protecting nuclear facilities to carry.

Data has shown that if you have a need to carry a firearm on your person, it is prudent to carry with one in the chamber and the safety off. For this reason, firearm manufacturers have been using this as a design criteria. It's not impossible to design safe firearms which meet this criteria. See Gaston Glock.

Back on topic, the Sig P320 was designed to not have a safety. The military version has one, but that's only because military requirements hardly ever change. The P320 and it's military counterpart, the M17, are designed to be carried loaded with no safety. The fact that they randomly go off when doing this is not a failure of the operator or some systemic societal problem. It's a failure of Sig to meet design requirements.

Stop victim blaming.

Well said.

Two different issues. Drop safe and uncommanded discharge. The rework is only for the former. Sig still denies the latter has ever happened. I'm guessing that's about to change though as I know of 3 separate instances of uncommanded discharge that are well documented. Two with law enforcement (one on video posted earlier in this thread) and now this one). There's something very off with the FCG in this firearm.

No. I don't think glock has ever gotten a US military contract.

Then gen2 glock is old enough to be considered one the original striker fired pistols. The parent is right. There's no reason to be making these kinds of mistakes these days. They industry has been churning out millions of safe striker fire personal carry firearms for decades now.

A rifle and a pistol serve different purposes. This would likely have both.

I'd take this with a grain of salt. I generally like James' content, but he has always been a huge Sig supporter and throughout the p320 debacle, he's been more supportive of Sig than I think he should be.

Many modern guns for personal protection do not have manually actuated safeties and instead rely on other mechanisms to prevent accidental discharge. For example, glocks have a "trigger safety." Without getting into minutia, these sort of features do a fine job of ensuring the gun does not fire unless the trigger is intentionally actuated.

The reason manual safeties are going away is that for side arms, time matters A LOT. Gun fights are typically over within just a few seconds and the person who fires first has a huge advantage. A long time ago there were quite a few major incidents involving police and manual safeties which resulted in most departments changing their policies such that they carry with the safety off or, typically these days, glocks which have no manual safety.

Regarding the p320. For one, the 320 does not have a trigger safety. In fact, there are numerous "innovations" on this firearm which were made to cut costs, improve trigger feel, and various other things. This rose a lot of suspicion when the gun first came out actually - especially the lack of a trigger safety which many consider essential for striker fire guns intended for carrying on your person. On top of that, sig did end up making a p320 with a safety as this was a military requirement. The thing is, it is possible that the "innovative" sear mechanism within the p320 may allow the gun to fire even when the safety is engaged. In fact, there have been reports of just that happening.

The gun that was being carried in Air Force incident is the military version of the p320 which does in fact have a manual safety. Also, the leaked reports state the incident happened whenever the gun was in the holster and the holster was removed and placed on a desk facing the victim. This is when the gun misfired striking the victim in the chest. There is speculation that the gun may have in fact had the safety engaged whenever this happened. If so, this would explain the prompt response by the AirForce.

Regardless, the purpose of manual safeties are not to prevent guns from discharging on their own (aka. "uncommanded"). Manual safeties are intended to protect against "accidental" discharges where the trigger gets pulled "accidentally." That's not what happened in the above video or the AirForce incident.

One more thing to note. The officer in this video was using a Sig Sauer holster so there should be no risk of the holster itself being the problem.

Publishing papers, filing patents, and stacking degrees is more valuable than doing anything actually impactful. Managers expect expertise to be transferrable to any and all domains regardless actual education or experience. Team management is not there to build teams, mentor, create structure, etc. Instead, their job is to be the smartest and most capable person in the room at all time again regardless of background or experience. If they aren't that means the manager is useless. Senior management feels their job is to constantly work on finding out who's secretly hiding how bad they are at their job and then fire them. It's the only organization I'd ever worked in where the smartest and most capable folks were the ones no one ever talked to and management ignored or was actively trying to push out of the org.

A colleague of mine said it felt like working for the mafia. I think that's a pretty apt description.

Its a pretty easy inference for anyone who has mfg experience. The amount you pay per worker versus the quality of work you get back is STARKLY different between US and Taiwanese companies.

I've worked under their leadership. Toxic does not begin to describe it. I'm not surprised at all they are in this state.

Back then these sort of things were seen as tampering with other companies' ip. It was sort of taboo for any reputable business to build products like that.

I don't know why but I find language like this incredibly frustrating. Maybe it's because the media tends to do this sort of thing all the time to fit statistics to their narrative.

Took the family to Dollywood this year and it was by far the best run theme park I've been to. I was amazed at the cleanliness, friendliness of the staff, and how well maintained everything was. The train was really cool too. One of only two times I've been able to see a real coal fired steam engine functioning.

I feel like the name "mullivad" might present challenges for user adoption.

Literally the org I was formerly in.

For vscode? I thought dbeaver was its own app.

Does something like this exist for mysql?

It's a smokescreen for hypersonic missile development. It's a common tactic. I knew someone who worked on a novel satellite surveillance system. Their pitch was that it would allow them to engage in futures trading because the resolution of their satellites would allow unique insights into global trade for certain markets using realtime optical imaging.

The guy was former Lockheed. One night at dinner I told him to cut the BS and that their real goal was to target military/government contracts. He said "off the record" this is correct. This an unspoken goal by everyone involved - management, investors, etc.

My understanding is it can be hard to position yourself as a defense company as a start up if you don't already have a foothold in the space.

It's more than just service bulletins. It aggregates service bulletins as well as common failures, steps to diagnose, and common repair procedures. Most of the data is via 3rd party repair centers as dealers quit sharing this data ages ago. Shops across the country use it to generate estimates and pay their techs. This ensures all work gets logged and that diags and standard procedures improve over time.

I don't know if that's an official term, I think it might refer to a legacy platform that doesn't exist any longer. It's a software package that aggregates common failures and repair procedures across 3rd party repair shops. They use it to do estimates and pay their techs as the techs are on contract and paid per the job.

My brother is a mechanic and he definitely goes on technet to review a checklist when doing diagnostics. Especially on cars he doesn't see a ton

I'm not defending the use of signal. That said this strawman is very weak. It's not uncommon to have two versions of the same app on your phone these days. My Google drive instance changes from personal to company based on my identity. This isn't hard to implement securely these days.

> They can't mandate a backdoor for something other parts of the government rely on to be secure.

Why not? It wouldn't be difficult to have a backdoor in the civilian use-case that's disabled for government use.

When I left microsoft, I kept everything EXCEPT data bearing devices. I got the sense they REALLY didn't want to have to collect the laptops either, but the VPs were forced to by compliance.