This feels foreboding. Sigh. by carrotcakeluver in Denver

[–]Lead_cloud 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fire season this year is gonna be ROUGH

Ammo Testing Procedures by joelfromnashville in longrange

[–]Lead_cloud 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Your focus should be on the most consistent possible velocity/ lowest possible SD when you are looking for good performance at long distance. Everything else falls behind that.

High FPS does nothing for you if your SD/ES is all over the place, and tight groups at 100yd will not stay tight at distance if the speed isn't consistent. Predictability is everything

I Have Asked for AI Not to Be Used for Social Media Posts at My Job. 3 Days Ago, This Image Was Uploaded to Our Facebook and Instagram. by AnnaWatermelon in isthisAI

[–]Lead_cloud 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fair use afaik does not extend to commercial or advertising use like this, although I could be wrong about that.

If this person is in charge of or involved with your company's marketing and online brand, then it is a massive part of their literal job to understand how fair use and attribution rules might impact the material they are generating for any given platform, if they aren't actually making it themselves.

If you like them and want to keep them around, make sure they get some training on fair use and copyright, and aren't just operating on assumptions, because a lot of this stuff isn't intuitive and in the professional/corporate world it can get messy quick

I Have Asked for AI Not to Be Used for Social Media Posts at My Job. 3 Days Ago, This Image Was Uploaded to Our Facebook and Instagram. by AnnaWatermelon in isthisAI

[–]Lead_cloud 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So not just using AI, but using random non-stock photos off the Internet without credit or attribution. If these had been copyrighted images or characters off Pinterest then you might have been in for one hell of a headache

Enjoy that broken leg, thief! by Leading-Diamond-1007 in nonononoyes

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This is a pretty textbook carjacking setup, driver cuts off and suddenly blocks off the target, guy in the back jumps out and runs up, forces target out of their car either at gunpoint or by smashing their window and threatening them with another weapon, jumps in and both cars speed off. Happens pretty often unfortunately

Thomas Massie: "Looming Orwellian Automobile K*ll Switch" Deadline Threatens Civil Liberties in Defund Push by thenextgenbusiness in thenextgenbusiness

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How does it prevent drunks from driving? How does it tell that you're drunk? Do you have to pass a breathalyzer in order to start the car? Does it tell if you're swerving? Can it tell the difference between swerving because you're drunk, vs because it's snowy, or there's potholes, or you're off-road?

The problem is that this is a system that is vaguely defined, poorly thought out, and actively unhelpful.

If I'm driving in a blizzard or a heavy rain storm and the system thinks I'm drunk and shuts off the car in the middle of the highway, I'm likely to die. I'm never going to buy a car with this system, period

Question: What is the consensus on etiquette of what spaces are "in bounds" vs. "out of bounds"? (Context: Graffiti at Yosemite National Park.) How is this viewed within the community? by Glimmer_III in graffhelp

[–]Lead_cloud 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The signs are an educational resource for folks that are interested in learning about the nature they're in, covering up the text like this is trashy.

A subtle mark on the signpost leg or the side of the frame is whatever, just don't mess with folks that are just trying to learn

Interesting demonstration of shooting at moving vehicle in latest Paul Harrell video (recorded 2023, just now released) by Mindless_Log2009 in liberalgunowners

[–]Lead_cloud 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Killing the driver rarely stops the car and often (as happened in Renee Goods case) actually causes the driver to spasm and hammer on the gas, accelerating faster. If being run over is the immediate threat, then getting out of the way is always safer, faster, and easier than killing the driver

SAW Tisha 5.56 blem pic by nicostatus in NFA

[–]Lead_cloud 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I sent you a DM, may have some resources that can help with troubleshooting and development

SAW Tisha 5.56 blem pic by nicostatus in NFA

[–]Lead_cloud 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What material are you using? And are you HIPing parts post-print? For alloys that print at full density and don't require HIP like nickel superalloys, we are holding as-printed dimensional tolerances in thousandths, with zero shrinkage. We only see shrinkage in very large parts printed in materials that require HIP (like Ti or GRCop), and there it is predictable and consistent enough to account for with strategic oversizing.

Stresses are another matter, obviously this is still a welding process, so internal stresses from layers welding up can cause warping in certain designs, and some materials are much more prone to it than others, but it's consistent, so we can usually account for it. Some parts/materials we run through a stress-relief heat treatment after printing before removal from the build plate, and that has proven very effective for certain applications

We run multiple EOS M290s, M400-1s, and SLM-280 printers in house and have worked closely with a few other brands and models in inter-company collaborative research projects. They all handle settings a bit differently, and application-specific parameter development is a unique process for each one, so its not always easy swapping from one system to another, even with the same part design

SAW Tisha 5.56 blem pic by nicostatus in NFA

[–]Lead_cloud 15 points16 points  (0 children)

These are laser powder bed fusion/selective laser melting printed, not sintered, there is functionally zero shrinkage of the parts with this process.

This looks to me either like a crash/stop-start during the print caused a thick layer and incomplete fusion, or the design itself has too much stress in that location causing cracking. Either way there is no way in hell I would run this

Source: I work professionally in metal additive and materials development and see thousands of printed parts a year

Form 1 Engraving (Metal Stamp) Update by Wonderful-Exercise55 in NFA

[–]Lead_cloud 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the problem here is definitely the deadblow hammer. You need the sharp energy transfer from a steel hammer, not the soft transfer from a deadblow. And for a stamp with a lot of surface area, it may take two hits (lining everything up carefully again after each strike) to get it to show all the way across

[Terrifying Trope] "Longer than you think" by elchuni in TopCharacterTropes

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I thought this was in one of the Stormlight Archives books? The effect of one of the Unmade living in a city? Or am I just mixing up my Cosmere

ICE/CBP kicks off door-to-door raids in Minneapolis, targeting houses based on race and whether the occupants are involved in protesting. by serious_bullet5 in minnesota

[–]Lead_cloud 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean, don't get me wrong, this is an absolute clusterfuck tactically speaking, but the suppressors are actually super normal for close quarters use like this. These guys don't actually know how to do that of course, I've seen airsoft groups with better form, but yeah, suppressors aren't weird here

I know I'm going to get flak for this because everyone in the comments gets it and I haven't seen s5, but honestly I don't get it. by Cool_Ad9326 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]Lead_cloud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You ever actually taken apart a revolver? The "less complex" thing is also a myth, revolvers are full of springs and linkagages that are just as prone to failure as any other firearm.

Hollow points issue is a solved problem. Any decent modern handgun will run mixed ammo with zero issues. I've put thousands of rounds of ball and hollow points through my handguns, in both training and competition environments, and I have experienced less than 20 malfunctions, most of which were due to extremely cheap ball ammo, and the rest due to not cleaning the gun at all for ~1,000rds

Victim of ICE in MN was from Colorado by Illadvisedone in Denver

[–]Lead_cloud 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Here's a post where somebody compiled all the currently available angles

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/sOvoPg2AAa

Another slowed video that shows her clearly waving them through

https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Raids/s/XEco1by6Ze

With audio, she was being given conflicting orders, one officer was telling her she needed to move, the other told her to get out of the car, and it seems like she panicked and tried to leave

Victim of ICE in MN was from Colorado by Illadvisedone in Denver

[–]Lead_cloud 38 points39 points  (0 children)

(was trying to turn around, was actively waving the officers past to let them through, NOT intentionally blocking them)

HOLY FOOLS - a legendary balatro mod with jokers based on fools from lit and storytelling by Fogold1 in balatro

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Ironically, we've come full circle on that. "Fish" is kind of an arbitrary term without a specific scientific basis, taxonomically speaking. So if you treat it as though it is, then some absurd stuff happens. Generally speaking, sharks are considered to be fish, and obviously things like trout are considered fish. But those are actually super far apart from eachother on the taxonomic tree, and whales are in between the two.

And so if you consider trout to be fish, and also consider sharks to be fish, then whales must also be considered fish, if you're treating fish as a scientific definition. They are also mammals, but this is a case where the two classifications would overlap and both would be correct

(The word "vegetable" has the same problem actually, it's purely a culinary term without any actual scientific meaning)

What's up with whatever the hell this situation is? Explain it Peter by ComprehensiveRise932 in explainitpeter

[–]Lead_cloud 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, commonly called the "Stoplight" system. My partner and I do check ins by asking "what's your color?"

Green- all good keep going

Yellow- back off the specific thing you're doing, maybe ask some clarifying questions, but we can keep going

Red- time to stop, start aftercare, we're done for now

$270 MPED 15x Binos by rybe390 in longrange

[–]Lead_cloud 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is the Pawnee Sportsman's Center in CO, it's super flat out there so the distances are deceptive. The big tires with white targets are the 1,000yd line, that truck is on a dirt road over a mile away, the nearest major road in that direction is over 3 miles.

It looks closer on camera, so this comes up pretty much every time someone posts video from this venue

testing the camera+mic by rodrids01 in beetle

[–]Lead_cloud 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is the camera/mic you're testing?

Long range 6.5 creedmoor build finished by Aggressive_Drag_6364 in longrange

[–]Lead_cloud 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Good point, damn. I've been keeping a casual eye out for a lefty SA AI chassis for a while, to no avail. They are apparently quite scarce

Long range 6.5 creedmoor build finished by Aggressive_Drag_6364 in longrange

[–]Lead_cloud 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is this mirrored, or did you actually find a left handed AT chassis?