lemcoe9
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Comment · 1 year ago
Absolutely. For me, OpenResty combined with a custom Lua script solved an incredibly complicated business problem that I ran into a couple years ago, and now that arrangement serves thousands of complex requests per day. With Nginx and that custom code combined into a single configuration, not requiring a separate backend service, we turned a complicated problem into a very simple one!
Comment · 1 year ago
ip4.me and related websites actually inspired me to create a more-whimsical version of the website, which I call ipkitten.com. Not only do you get your IP address, User Agent, and approximate geolocation, but you also get a kitten GIF!
It also works from the command line, like this:
$ curl ipkitten.com
4.2.2.2
Comment · 2 years ago
Another shameless plug for my website, you can use ipkitten.com to get your public IP address from your terminal:
$ curl ipkitten.com
27.44.144.144
Comment · 2 years ago
The 4090 costs ~$1800 and doesn't have dual OLED screens, doesn't have a battery, doesn't weigh less than a pound, and doesn't actually do anything unless it is plugged into a larger motherboard, either.
Comment · 3 years ago
As someone who works as a broadcast engineer at a Major League Baseball stadium and has interacted with numerous ballpark security employees, the use of facial recognition software is quite widespread in professional sporting venues, both to identify "do not fly list" individuals (banned, trespassed, known terrorist, etc.) and "VIP list" (local and larger politicians, high net-worth individuals, celebrities, corporate magnates, etc.) people.
It also dramatically reduces the amount of time it takes to locate missing children, which is an almost-daily occurrence.
Comment · 3 years ago
And that is why police officers use Level 3 holsters.
https://safariland.com/collections/level-3-retention-holster...
Comment · 3 years ago
In general, handguns with active safety levers are considered less-safe than firearms without active safeties when being carried in proper holsters (ones where the trigger area is completely covered) because of the additional steps required to use the firearm when it is deployed. Having a pistol come out of the holster ready-to-fire is always going to be advantageous to having to remember to manipulate the safety lever, ensure the firearm is loaded, ensure the firearm is in-battery, etc. when the time comes.
Comment · 3 years ago
Product reviews, trigger specifications, and such. It really is just a matter of personal preference. Firearms like Glocks don't have "active safeties" where you enable/disable them with a lever, but they do have a variety of "inactive safeties" which prevent the firearm from discharging when dropped/rattled/whatever.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
It is definitely not new, at all.
Source: I am in my mid-20's.
Comment · 4 years ago
As federally-licensed firearms manufacturer (FFL07/SOT02), I can attest to how straightforward and even downright "easy" it is to create numerous firearms and firearm parts of varying legality. On the "not so illegal" side you have pistol slides, custom triggers, accessory railings, etc. that are all completely-legal to make, possess, sell, use, etc. It would be like 3D-printing a new case for a desktop computer.
On the other hand, you have things like removable drop-in auto-sears (RDIAS) [1], Glock selector switches [2], MP5 auto-sears, AR15 -> M16 conversion jigs, handmade silencers (suppressors) [3], and numerous other components that not only require a federal license to create/possess/use, but also require a special taxpayer status called an SOT (Special Occupational Taxpayer) [4] because all of the aforementioned items are construed as machine guns (even if the device merely converts a firearm to a machine gun, and of course silencers) under the National Firearms Act of 1934 [5], and later clarified with the Gun Control Act of 1968 [6].
In addition to those items, NFA also deals with short-barrel rifles (rifles with barrels under 16 inches in length) and short-barrel shotguns (shotguns with barrels under 18 inches in length) which are incredibly easy to "accidentally" own. However, the largest firearms loophole in the country is that by attaching a "pistol brace" to an otherwise regulated short-barrel rifle, you are in compliance. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are currently in violation of the National Firearms Act of 1934 because they possess these short-barrel AR-15's. The differences between these two configurations are strikingly and laughably small [7].
Especially with the machine gun parts, the idea of governments/municipalities expecting citizens to simply surrender them - even for "fair market" value - is simply absurd and altruistic.
Fun Fact: You yourself (in most states) can own a fully-automatic firearm! The only catch is that it has to be manufactured before May 1986, be registered under NFA, and transferred to you on an ATF Form 4 (which requires a $200 tax stamp [the same as it cost in 1934] and around 210+ days of waiting). These are known as "transferable machine guns" and are quite valuable despite their almost-identical resemblance to their semi-automatic counterparts. Here are some for sale: https://otbfirearms.com/nfa/transferable-machine-guns/
[1] https://www.recoilweb.com/turning-your-ar-15-into-an-m-16-15...
[2] https://buybestguns.com/product/semi-full-auto-glock-handgun...
[3] https://solventtrapsdirect.com/
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Occupational_Taxpayers
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act_of_1968
[7] https://www.guns.com/news/reviews/ar-pistol-vs-ar-rifle-what...
Comment · 5 years ago
Another opportunity for a shameless plug of my website: https://ipkitten.com
It simply serves you a random kitten GIF (some of which involve catnip) and provides your IP address alongside some other connection information.
EDIT: The ARIN JSON endpoints have rate-limited me, so ISP information is currently unavailable.
Comment · 6 years ago
Another opportunity for a shameless plug of my kitten-inspired website: IPKitten.com, which serves to give your IPv4 address, User Agent, and a ARIN-based IP address lookup to show the ISP.