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slowhand09on Sig Sauer P320, a popular handgun with police, is firing on its own

Your finger is the safety. Glock pistols have never had a safety. They have no higher rate of negligent or accidental discharges than pistols with safeties. If you are qualified to carry, a round in the chamber is what saves your life. Racking the slide(improperly) to load a round is the number one cause of jams. Nervous people tend to "ride the slide" which is pulling it back, then easing it forward. It should snap forward to strip the round from the magazine and chamber it properly.

slowhand09on Use GitHub Actions to Make Your GitHub Profile Dynamic

Your updates may be more prolific than many...

slowhand09on Teen-age fentanyl deaths in a Texas county

What town/state are we talking about? Is it a mining town where the mines are shutdown? Is it a mill town where the mills are shutdown? Is it a auto manufacturing town where the cars went obsolete? Agricultural town where the farms are gone?

slowhand09on Command line functions around OpenAI

I used to attend cross-team meetings with a guy (works for AWS now) who was a tech lead and meeting facilitator. He gathered the agenda, presented during the meeting, assembled notes during the meeting, and distributed the notes via email at meeting conclusion. He keyboarded the entire time, looking up at the projected display. Fastest touch typist I recall seeing.

slowhand09on Command line functions around OpenAI

IC being internal consultant?

slowhand09on Who owns private home security footage, and who can get access to it?

I have a ring doorbell and I detest it. But my wife wants it.

Since you have your own system, would you be willing to share links to info on a "roll your own" system?

slowhand09on SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series

+1 here. I purchased the original SimCity and soon after the original SimEarth. Loads of fun with both.

slowhand09on Turn your backyard into a biodiversity hotspot

I prob have 20 kinds of weeds, 20 native species of plant. I've had whitetail deer, eastern red fox, river otter, snapping turtles, box turtles, muskrat, brown rat, bald eagle, turkey vulture, black vulture, crow, osprey, blue heron, white heron, green heron, snowy egret, redtail hawk, sparrow hawk, tons of songbirds, racoon, possum, black squirrel, grey squirrel, chipmunk, multiple water snake species, rough green snake, ring-tail snake, black racer, milk snake, worm snake, blue-belly skinks, toads, frogs, eels, blue crabs, sand crabs, horseshoe crabs, shrimp, oysters, clams, multiple species of jellyfish, rays, skates, pipefish, striped bass, catfish, crappie, bluefish,... I'm pretty sure I've missed several. Where should I start to become biodiverse?

slowhand09on Make your database tables smaller

“The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.”

- Donald Knuth "The Art of Computer Programming"

slowhand09on Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab

You might check https://rpilocator.com/

slowhand09on Hoax school shooting calls keep happening, and there's a pattern (October 2022)

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-sch...

This NPR article is a target to actually kill. Epstein'ed.

slowhand09on Hoax school shooting calls keep happening, and there's a pattern (October 2022)

I see I've been downvoted for this. Almost like suppressing a debunking or retraction. :-)

slowhand09on “Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)

My current environment... we develop on a production environment.

And our toolchain... put it this way. We went from no documented procedures, to several. And the several... have no date, no version, no author, no revision control...

Friday is my last day. I am so happy.

slowhand09on Hoax school shooting calls keep happening, and there's a pattern (October 2022)

One motive I can see is to inflate the reports of school shootings. How often is news reported, then "if" there is a debunking, in print its inside the back page whereas the initial report was a lead on the front page. Starting a story is much harder than stopping a story, especially when motivation is considered.

slowhand09on Why do bees die when they sting you?

I don't know this fo ra fact. Actually I'd never even heard this before. I'd surmise the act of pulling a stinger out of another insect may be less than the amount required to pull the stinger form the bee's body, thus preserving the bee.

slowhand09on Why do bees die when they sting you?

I can vouch for the veracity of bumblebees. I disturbed a nest and was chased by a couple of bees. I took 6 hits from one bee. 1st one felt like a rock hit me. Each after was similarly unpleasant. And after the 2nd each one was while I was in full sprint. I eventually escaped by jumping in a car.

slowhand09on Elon Musk claims the FBI paid Twitter to 'censor info from the public.'

I choose to decline your offer.

slowhand09on Elon Musk claims the FBI paid Twitter to 'censor info from the public.'

Nice, instead of considering the possibility and doing a 10sec goggle search, you brand me a conspiracy nut. And invite me to leave. This response could be characterized as promoting division.

Avoiding critical thinking is a serious problem in todays society. Instead of considering the possibility and perhaps expending a trivial amount of mental effort, you accept what you've been spoon-fed as fact.

I find this humorous as your profile says your company performs "Due Diligence" for other companies.

slowhand09on Are super-rich people just better at making money?

So this redistribution... How will this ever be fair? If I work harder and smarter, save/invest instead of spending recklessly - how is it fair that the fruits of my effort are taken by the government (who incidentally created all the laws and loopholes we have now) to redistribute as THEY see fit (also known as Buying Votes). How do you redistribute my house (expensive due to location) to others living in less expensive places? How about my car (expensive and fast). It costs more, drinks more fuel, and looks nearly new. Never mind that I paid a gasguzzler tax on purchase, sales tax, smog inspection since new(another tax in disguise). It looks new. But I care for it, handwash it, polish it, seal it, personally - my labor. I roundtrip it 90miles a day, so it as 135k miles. But it looks new. MY LABOR. Nobody offered to wash/wax it for me and make some cash. Just like I shovel snow off my driveway. And rake leaves. Nobody wants to do that work. They just want their part of the redistribution.

Y'all worry about these millionaires and their money, yet here you are, hoping to learn the secrets of success from Y-Combi companies... and become wealthy yourselves.

slowhand09on ‘My power’s low’: NASA’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off

Are you old enough to remember "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"? Voyager is a major character. In 1979... way before the internet.

slowhand09on I am doing 100k push-ups this year

I'm doing pushups at the rate of 10000/year.

But I'm only doing them for one minute. So about 7 pushups.

For me, the rate is what is important.

slowhand09on ‘My power’s low’: NASA’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off

Relevant. https://xkcd.com/695/

slowhand09on ‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ find of 1,300-year-old necklace dazzles historians

Sometimes taking something and preserving it is not a bad thing. Anyone recall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan?

I'm pretty sure thousand or 10 of thousand of Egyptian artifacts were looted, probably quite often by Egyptians.

Take at look at many regions of the African continent. When ethnic groups or even groups they perceived themselves different would wipe out tribes or societies, artifacts were taken or destroyed.

slowhand09on How to spot a 'short snorter'

I'm in trouble if anybody asks..

slowhand09on Entrepreneur’s Death at Hands of Austin Police Prompts Calls for Change

Sometimes "Best-funded" means pays lots of overtime. Many departments determine retirement benefits based on hours worked in your final year(s). Was not uncommon for officers to work 80hr weeks, doubling the amount they get in retirement.

There are many problems to fix.

slowhand09on Digitally sign PDF files from your commandline – open-pdf-sign

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slowhand09on ElonJet Is Now Suspended

Evidently not. I live on the Chesapeake Bay. I see many Coast Guard and Navy vessels regularly that are not broadcasting AIS signals used for the safety of vessels nearby. Yet others do. I also see many military aircraft not broadcasting ADS-B, yet many are.

slowhand09on Elon Musk Has Outfitted Twitter’s Headquarters with Bedrooms for Employees

You don't understand the nature of firefighting. Hours, even days of boredom, punctuated with adrenalin-filled sprints. Rarely overworked, but pushed to the limit as needed. If we didn't love it, you couldn't afford us.

slowhand09on ElonJet – Account Suspended

You may be too young to remember...

Several years ago I hear a guy on the radio telling people to be very careful. There was a place where people could get your name, your address, even your phone number, all for free... if they knew where to look.

Listeners called in, some incensed that the MC/DJ whatever was even talking about it.

After a few minutes, he exposed the secret. It was... the phone book.

slowhand09on Team New Zealand set new wind-powered land speed record on South Australian Lake

Sort of a yes and no thing. Once the apparent wind is forward of the beam you are effectively sailing upwind.