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spl757 commented on Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-07-... · Posted by u/duxup

millzlane · a month ago

I've had one since before the military adopted it. I've been carrying it for years daily. It has never once went off on its own. I run with it, jump with it, have carried it in a small cross body bag. It has never just fired by itself. I have over 5k rounds through it.

The only time my gun has went off was when I pulled the trigger. Has your gun ever went off without pulling the trigger?

Most of the videos I see on YouTube are people who were fiddling with the gun, in some kind of physical altercation, or carry some sort of back on the side they carry. I didn't get the fix from Sig either.

spl757 · a month ago

No, mine has never discharged without intention. I have had it for years and have put thousands of rounds through it. I keep it clean and maintained properly, and the only issue I've ever had with it is some jamming when using crappy FMJ range ammo.

All that being said, I'm not trying to say there is definitely an issue with the P320, but there is enough out there to give me some doubt. Perhaps there will be a fix at some point, but until then it's just not worth it to me.

This also isn't happening with other guns. If you google any other gun brand and the words unintentional discharge, you will still only get results for the P320.

spl757 commented on Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-07-... · Posted by u/duxup

spl757 · a month ago

There are really two separate claims being made about the P320 and unintentional discharges.

One claim is that the gun can fire when dropped at a certain angle from a certain height. The voluntary "recall" lets you send it back to Sig and they replace some parts. I think the cause was because the trigger itself was bulky enough for a drop to give it enough inertia to fire, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

The other claim is that the P320 can fire without being dropped, and while holstered, seemingly on it's own. That's all I really know about it.

I own a P320, and I consider it an unsafe weapon at this point. I have not had the self-recall fix done and I'll never chamber a round in it again, so I guess it's a paperweight now.

spl757 commented on Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders fastcompany.com/91323835/... · Posted by u/jmpfrog

Esophagus4 · 4 months ago

> Or you have some emergency situation where a higher travel speed is a matter of life and death?

Can you provide such a scenario?

Or, more importantly... can you provide a reason why this hypothetical, extremely unusual edge case should take precedence over the 12,000 speeding deaths per year in our calculation?

For example, I'm willing to wager more people get hurt speeding TO the hospital while their wife is in labor than preventing any sort of injury due to out of hospital birth. Even EMTs know this implicitly: ground transport is one of the most dangerous parts of their job.[1]

Machines are absolutely capable of enforcing laws, and they do a pretty good job of it in many cases. Speed cameras reduce crashes and fatalities, and car breathalyzers reduce the incidences of drunk driving.[2][3][4]

Even still, humans (judges) review these cases individually and decide which offenders' cars to put breathalyzers / speed limiters on.

Also of note - presumably if you're a decent driver using your speeding card just this once to get your pregnant wife to the hospital, you wouldn't have repeated 100+ MPH speeding convictions on your record, so you wouldn't have a limited speed, anyway. In the US, these limiters are only installed for repeated offenses.

This affects the guy who has a history of reckless driving, the same way car breathalyzers affect the guy who has a history of drunk driving.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221414052...

[2] https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2025/nyc-dot-speed-camer...

[3] https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/speed-cameras-reduce-injury...

[4] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7879393/

spl757 · 4 months ago

Train crossings. I live in a port city with tracks that run right through the middle of the city. No, the safety lights don't always work. No, you can't always hear them coming. Yes, I've had to floor it to avoid being hit. This just seems like a bad idea on the face of it to me. It makes people drive in a way that other drivers may not expect them to, and that's always dangerous.

spl757 commented on Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii blog.infected.systems/pos... · Posted by u/edent

spl757 · 4 months ago

Are you still looking for PS2 Linux?

spl757 commented on My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened? support.vizio.com/s/artic... · Posted by u/decimalenough

spl757 · 5 months ago

Just remember that while you are watching the ad, the ad is watching you.

Actually anything you do on your internet connected Smart TV is being collected and sold by the TV manufacturer.

Smart TVs should be called Surveillance TVs at this point.

spl757 commented on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs computerworld.com/article... · Posted by u/cable2600

LeoPanthera · 5 months ago

You actually can still buy Office. It's quite expensive though.

I suppose it always was.

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=2113574&CLCID=0x10...

spl757 · 5 months ago

I hear https://ms.codes/ sells office and stuff.

spl757 commented on I tried making artificial sunlight at home victorpoughon.fr/i-tried-... · Posted by u/fouronnes3

atoav · 5 months ago

This is covered by the CRI95+ value, note that the LM301 you mentioned only has a color rendering index of 70. Maybe it has predominant wavelengths that are relevant for plant growth, I don't know, but a CRI of 70 isn't impressive at all.

For an accurate rendering of the suns spectrum you basically would like to simulate the spectrum of a blackbody radiator with a surface temperature of 5500°C minus the absorption bands of water vapors, atmospheric gases thst are typically inbetween the sun and us. Also note that the suns spectrum extends both above and below the visible range, which gives you the feeling of warmth (infrared) and tan/sunburn (ultraviolet).

In reality most commercially available LEDs still have a extremely spikey spectrum compared to sunlight — this can be somewhat fixed by mixing different LED types and adding filters. But this is only done in extremely expensive movie lights like Arri skypanels.

spl757 · 5 months ago

Thanks for the insight. Most of what I know about LEDs, and specifically the LM301 series, comes from research I did prior to setting up a small indoor grow tent several years ago. It was a "spikey spectrum" precisely that I was trying to avoid. For growing Cannabis you do want spikes at red and blue, but better LEDs also emit a wider spectrum along with the spikes and that results in a better result. Having only spikes at red and blue alone works, but not as well. The lights I ended up buying had LM301H EVO LEDs with a CRI of 80 and were designed for a 2'x2' tent. You can also get LM301H LEDs with a CRI of up to 90, though. The lights I ended up buying only cost 80 BezosBucks at the time. I don't spend BezosBucks anymore, though, due to enshittification of everything Amazon, but I digress.

While they aren't designed for growing, and to use them would be a complete waste of $8k, I bet the Arri SkyPanel S120-C SoftLight with a CRI of 95 would do a fine job for growing. You weren't kidding about them being extremely expensive.

spl757 commented on Virginia will punish fast drivers with devices that limit their speed washingtonpost.com/dc-md-... · Posted by u/reaperducer

somethingsome · 5 months ago

That seems very dangerous, sometimes you need to accelerate a bit to avoid an accident.

spl757 · 5 months ago

It seems very dangerous because it is very dangerous.

Other drivers around you are going to expect you to be able to accelerate past the speed limit during dynamic driving conditions like heavy traffic, especially on the interstate. This will make some people unable to drive in a predictable way in some circumstances.

One thing that people underestimate is the danger of deviating from proper right-of-way. Letting someone go that is supposed to yield to you is an example of this. All of the drivers around you are going to expect the other car to yield, and for you to go. If you do the opposite to "be nice" and stop when you have right-of-way the other drivers around you are not going to expect you to stop the flow of traffic. It can cause confusion and that leads to accidents.

spl757 commented on I tried making artificial sunlight at home victorpoughon.fr/i-tried-... · Posted by u/fouronnes3

spl757 · 5 months ago

I'd be interested in seeing the optical spectrograph of the LEDs. If you want to simulate sunlight you want a full-spectrum LED like a Samsung LM301 series LED which are popular in grow lights. Not all LEDs are created equal, and even the LEDs in many "grow" lights only show two sharp peaks at red and blue wavelengths. A full-spectrum LED will output colors across the visible spectrum of light. You can't tell by looking at them, so you can either buy ones from which you trust the manufacturer or do what I did and build a cheap optical spectroscope using a raspberry pi with a small camera attached, a spectroscope lens, and some python code. I'm sure there are guides you can find with a quick web search if interested in making one.

spl757 commented on After 47 years, OpenVMS gets a package manager (VSP) raymii.org/s/blog/After_4... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie

spl757 · 5 months ago

oh my