This is a completely incorrect interpretation of a FMEA (failure-modes-and-effects-analysis) / "Risk Chart". ISO quality systems regulations / the army mandate engineers sit in a room and dream up every way the device could fail and/or harm someone. You then classify the risk of that harm, so in all cases an unintentional discharge would be "high risk". This does not mean the pistol has a high chance of discharging, that is a separate metric for odds of occurrence. Even if the pistol was redesigned to only have a 1 in a million chance of unintentionally discharging, the "risk" category would stay "high".
Readit NewsTheJoeMan commented on Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years smokinggun.org/court-reco... · Posted by u/eoskx
TheJoeMan commented on Blurry rendering of games on Mac colincornaby.me/2025/08/y... · Posted by u/bangonkeyboard
I’m disappointed none of the proposed fixes are for CGDisplayCopyAllDisplayModes to have the “first” option on the list be the BEST option, taking into account the notch. The author hinted that many games pick the first option, so rather than demanding all those publishers add new code, Apple could make the easy path the happy path.
TheJoeMan commented on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
He may generate useless tokens but boy can he generate ALOT of tokens.
Can he draw an "alot" made of tokens?
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-bette...
TheJoeMan commented on AP to end its weekly book reviews dankennedy.net/2025/08/08... · Posted by u/thm
In most cases yes, but the Associated Press makes its money mostly through members fees that scale based on circulation size and in return the members get to syndicate AP content so the incentives are better aligned towards editorial integrity. The AP has strict guidelines against allowing outside organizations to influence their reporting (FWIW).
Publishers and PR firms can send advanced copies but they can’t pay for one of AP’s independent critics for a submarine article.
So by extension, the members don't desire syndicated free reviews from AP but would rather sell those reviews? That would mean this article from AP is saying is that there is low demand for editorially integrous book reviews and not book reviews in general.
TheJoeMan commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari apps.apple.com/app/ublock... · Posted by u/Jiahang
You mean he searched for a URL and received something that was an exact match as his sole result? Sounds like the search worked perfectly.
What do you think should've happened? The search say "I know what you're searching for, but I refuse to help because your dumb ass should've typed this into a web browser address bar?"
This isn't 1995. Computers have access to the Internet, and there's no reason your computer's search bar should only search local.
Now, if he'd had a file with that as its name, and a text document with that URL, I would've expected those first. Maybe not at first. Depends on disk space allocated to indexing.
I didn’t mean to elicit hostilities, my comment is in the context of the parent comment where they are discussing displeasure with the web search results coming from the Windows search bar. As a more technically literate user, I would prefer for no web results except from my web browser, but I was sharing a corollary to that.
TheJoeMan commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari apps.apple.com/app/ublock... · Posted by u/Jiahang
It is mind-boggling, how in this day and age search functions can still be soooo bad in so many places on the web and inside applications. At the very least a 100% substring match should be very visible in the result. If not at the top, then there should be sorting criteria, to make it appear at the top, so that one can sane-ify the search result, when it is not sane.
A good example for bad search is the windows start menu. If you just logged in and the system is still loading (whatever it is doing all that long...) and you press the super key and then start typing, it might be too slow to find things _locally on your disk_, and might start searching online. When you have developed an automatism and just continue typing and then hit enter/return key, you will get some online shit result shown in Edge or some Microsoft store shit, instead of simply launching your already installed app. A critical race right there in the start menu. It's baffling.
Recently, there was a reddit post about a KDE menu search thing just as silly. It would not prioritize the title/name of an app, but instead, after typing 3 or more characters, find a word in the description of a launcher/starter of other apps and show those first, even though the 3 chars or more are a perfect substring of the name of an app.
People reinvent simple search and make silly searches over and over again. One of the main criteria is, that a substring match must lead to being high in the results, if not the top result. Shorter wins vs longer, because the match has higher percentage of match with the full title/name. Beginning of the string matched? Higher in results. All very basic things, that shouldn't be difficult to implement.
I watched an elderly mathematics professor manually type a full URL into the windows search box, complete with "https", and I thought to myself "surely that won't work" and lo and behold...
TheJoeMan commented on Tim Cook rallying Apple employees around AI efforts bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/andrew_lastmile
I feel like Steve Jobs would have designed what real androids should be.
Instead Apple can’t even manage to implement speech to text that works in safari and can’t manage to make Siri not suck.
I don’t know if Tim Cook has actually tried Siri day-to-day like most typical users who get frustrated. Half the time I ask siri to convert units of measure, it pulls up a web search? We’re not asking for siri to have LLM abilities to compose sonnets. Interestingly, does anyone remember when siri would use WolframAlpha for answers? Perhaps that’s the company Apple should buy not OpenAI.
TheJoeMan commented on Never write your own date parsing library zachleat.com/web/adventur... · Posted by u/ulrischa
It's like that joke someone posted on Twitter: "I was in favor of space exploration until I realized what it would mean for date/time libraries"
It's funny to reason why we must go to bed when the clock has a certain number, since modern technology could easily be programmed to adjust as needed. No technical reasons the Martians can't go to bed at 9:00am today and 9:40am tomorrow. This mirrors my thoughts on why farmers caring about daylight savings time is farcical, farmers I know use the timekeeping of "crack of dawn" and "sunset".
TheJoeMan commented on It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean) news.sparkfun.com/14298... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
TheJoeMan commented on How slow motion became cinema’s dominant special effect newrepublic.com/article/1... · Posted by u/cainxinth
One related observation about time slowing down.
When you get better at juggling, objects really start falling down in slow motion (e.g a glass from a cupboard).
I guess my brain stores trajectories in cache instead of having to compute them and I get higher fps than I used to.
The other day my friend bounced a ball off the ceiling and we tried to catch it. It's surprisingly frustrating, not expecting the speed from the rebound plus gravity acceleration.