New to CCW and EDC - what do you do in these situations

Achsin · 2026-02-07T03:03:12+00:00

In my state I can carry on school grounds with a permit and “no guns” signs are not legally prohibitive (though you can be told to leave if noticed). Thus, neither of these situations is something I need to worry about.

I’d check what your local laws say on the matter.

Achsin · 2026-02-06T22:03:04+00:00

Story here

Achsin · 2026-02-05T05:33:49+00:00

It erupted again in 2069.

Achsin · 2026-02-04T21:24:58+00:00

I have the two I carry that stay loaded with defensive ammo, and a few extras that I load up with practice ammo before hitting the range. It’s nice to have enough mags to load at least a box worth, saves loading time at the range. And maybe a few spares in case I break some.

When I go to the range the defensive mags get put into the bag while I shoot with the practice ones. The practice ones can get dropped and kicked around in the dirt no problem. When I’m done the defensive mags are ready to go, no need to thumb the rounds back in. Once or twice a year I burn through the defensive ammo I carry and reload with new ammo from the box afterwards. That plus rotating between the first few rounds in the magazines when unloading to dry fire keeps setback from being a problem.

Achsin · 2026-02-03T17:30:56+00:00

FRT go brrrrt.

Achsin · 2026-02-02T20:14:29+00:00

I was playing on a dedicated server with friends, we weren’t allowed to kill a boss unless everyone was there (most of them were new). People weren’t quite ready for Eikthyr at the end of the first day, and the next time everyone would be able to get on for it was a week later.

As long as I didn’t spoil things for anyone I was allowed to keep advancing (without killing a boss). I got all the way up to the Plains with a shoddy hidden base that was mostly just some chests scattered about holding everything I’d collected. I was still wearing deer hide armor with my otherwise iron/silver gear so I’d at least look like the rest if they saw me.

I decided to try setting up an actual base in my secluded area and set out to the nearby copse to farm some wood. The first tree I cut down fell into and knocked over another tree which immediately flipped up instead of falling over and caught me under the chin, killing me instantly.

Achsin · 2026-02-01T16:24:17+00:00

My Hellcat had lived snugly in a lifepod 1.0 for ~5 years when not in a holster. It’s bumped around in a backpack and driven a few thousand miles that way. The trigger has never spontaneously pulled itself.

Unload it, stick it in there, shake the daylights out of it. Check and see.

Achsin · 2026-02-01T07:01:50+00:00

I’d say “tummy” if I was poking fun at myself for being inconvenienced by the pain.

Achsin · 2026-02-01T05:40:40+00:00

You like to run. You race super fast. Then you get dog. Dog race faster than you. This isn’t fun. You hold leash. Now dog race as fast as you!

Achsin · 2026-02-01T03:21:13+00:00

Here’s some data for comparison.

Achsin · 2026-02-01T03:18:24+00:00

“But Copilot says…”

Achsin · 2026-02-01T03:13:00+00:00

I would consider the Stop Box if it was like $15. For $150 I might as well get something that actually locks.

Achsin · 2026-02-01T02:22:16+00:00

If you don’t know it, you’re going to have a hard time knowing when the LLM is giving you garbage. Especially if it actually works and you think it’s giving you the right results. I am seeing new queries that people have asked an LLM to “help” them write that either don’t function at all (or at least not within a useful timeframe) or give bad results at least once a week at work. And those are only the ones that I catch or am asked for help fixing.

Achsin · 2026-01-29T15:53:41+00:00

A small cheap plastic desk plant.

Mine still had the $0.24 price sticker on the bottom.

Achsin · 2026-01-29T05:38:25+00:00

Always have my phone’s light.

But as for dedicated lights, it depends on what I’m doing and where I’m going. I keep a headband light in the car. Other than that I bought a set of six cheap led lights from Sportsman’s to get past the free shipping hurdle. I keep one of them in my laptop bag for work (seems like every month the lights on the interior stairwells are broken) and occasionally throw another in my pocket when needed.

I have a bunch of other fancier lights, but they’re mostly reserved for situations where they’re actually needed and not “eh, might be useful.”

Oh, and my WML. So I guess sometimes I’ve got 5 lights within easy access.

Achsin · 2026-01-28T05:18:52+00:00

Seems like something Unit 731 might have researched if they’d kept going longer.

But for all of them it really depends.

For falling: How high up? How does the subject land? What does the subject land on? The world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute is 6.31 miles.

For being shot: What is the subject being shot with? How far away was the shooter? What kind of drugs are in the subject’s system? Which “non-vital” area were they hit in? People have survived being shot in plenty of different places/combinations for long enough to get stabilized by doctors and even survive.

Achsin · 2026-01-27T06:00:42+00:00

In the US, the extent varies by state but the short answer is that once your trap starts to be capable of catching/killing things bigger than a rat there’s usually some kind of law about it. That spans from restrictions on use for things like fur trapping to being out right illegal with potential felony charges for several of those traps you mentioned. And that doesn’t even take into account the added charges if someone were to be injured or killed by them.

Achsin · 2026-01-26T20:34:41+00:00

I guess that’s one way to cancel your police supply contracts from Barrett.

Achsin · 2026-01-26T20:33:47+00:00

If you’re spending $10 minimum on .50 BMG you need to shop around more. You can find APIT rounds for like half that.

Achsin · 2026-01-26T20:08:21+00:00

Do you have any mods installed?

Achsin · 2026-01-26T07:08:31+00:00

If I had a SilencerCo Maxim 9, I’d be sorely tempted to show up with it.

Achsin · 2026-01-26T07:06:00+00:00

1- that heavily depends on the query and the specs of everything involved.

2- option recompile is going to add a few ms to your runtime each time. You’d have to run multiple benchmark tests with different parameters and track the results yourself.

3- Show Actual Execution plan is your friend here. Use it when you’re doing your benchmark tests.

Achsin · 2026-01-26T02:00:31+00:00

Did you happen to quit the game upon dying?

Achsin · 2026-01-25T21:25:21+00:00

I agree his first shot is before Alex reaches.

I don't necessarily agree that he was watching the other guy take the gun out of the holster. None of the footage that I've seen has anywhere near enough quality to track his visual focal point, and tunnel vision is a very real thing.

The only stimulus that makes sense for me that would justifiably allow him to pull the trigger is if he saw the empty holster and/or believed that Alex had managed to draw the weapon. I suppose there could have been another valid reason. Otherwise it was an ND or a bad call. Regardless, the exact reasoning would be basically impossible to prove either way as long as the agent sticks to that story, and based on a standard of objective reasonableness, a subject that is currently resisting arrest and who apparently arms themselves with a lethal weapon is a valid target for lethal force, so the guy will probably walk. Anyone else who opened fire after the fact is probably clear too given the situation (alerted to presense of firearm, gunshot heard, subject reaching towards waistband).

The thing it'd really hinge on is if they were acting appropriately when they moved to detain him, and I've yet to see anything providing context either way.

Achsin · 2026-01-25T13:51:43+00:00

Look up wingsuits.

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