India is on the ally list. Modi and Bibi have been getting very friendly lately. Big hugs! https://apnews.com/article/israel-india-modi-visit-netanyahu-3579fe515c0dad8c05431d59706a4cd7

They are standing firm on two very reasonable AI guardrails that the Pentagon wants removed.

Anthropic has drawn two red lines: no mass surveillance of Americans and no fully autonomous weapons.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anthropics-safety-first-ai-collides-with-the-pentagon-as-claude-expands-into/

If I was looking for a home/DIY Cad software, I would be looking for one with an amateurish feel too. I don’t need professional features like flow and thermal analysis. That’s how I interpreted that comment, and I share their sentiment.

Edit: After re-reading the OP, I definitely don’t think it’s their software. Comments like “it has some frustrating bugs that I don’t think will ever be fixed” and “is [there] a better intermediate software package I should be considering?” contradict that assumption.

I’m not saying they aren’t involved with this project, but I’m not seeing any indication that they are. What is making you jump to this conclusion? (Their last comment was obviously sarcastic.)

I honestly think it’s a bit of a stretch to call it piracy when the open-source code is hosted on Microsoft-owned Github, and Microsoft support has been caught using it themselves: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-support-cracks-windows-for-customer-after-activation-fails/

The link I shared contains steps to activate the 3-year extension for free, on a non-business computer. I don’t care if this extension is marketed towards business accounts. You can activate all 3 years on your personal computer for free.

You can activate 3 years of updates for free with Microsoft Activation Scripts: https://massgrave.dev/windows10_eol

You allow your TV to access the internet?

Same here! All original S9+, and I still get over a day’s worth of battery time.

Explanation: AI slop.

Check out the graduation marks on the syringe. It jumps from 5 subdivisions to 6. Also, I guess the number that follows 1 is also 1!?

Extended security updates are available. This can be activated for free using Microsoft Activation Scripts.

Microsoft tech support has been repeatedly caught using these scripts to resolve support tickets for license issues. (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-support-cracks-windows-for-customer-after-activation-fails/) Also, the open source MAS code is hosted on Microsoft-owned Github, so they are appearantly not very concerned with people taking advantage of this exploit.

If you go this route, please also see the FAQ entry here. There is currently a glitch with commercial ESU keys (which this uses) and Windows Update will continue to claim that your device will no longer receive security updates. This is also effecting W10 LTSC systems. However, you can verify that the license key is active through Command Prompt and instructions are given in the FAQ.

It’s all the same option. It activates years 1-6 to the best of it’s ability, but admits the years 4-6 are not yet fully released

FYI, Microsoft Activation Scripts has a method to activate extended security updates on Windows 10 machines. This should give you at least another year of updates.

E: It appears that this gives an extra 3 years of updates. I’ll be trying it out tonight on my last W10 machine.

Edit2: If you go this route (as I just did), please also see the FAQ entry here. There is currently a glitch with commercial ESU keys (which this exploit uses) and Windows Update will continue to claim that your device will no longer receive security updates. This is also effecting W10 LTSC systems. However, you can verify that the license key is active through Command Prompt and instructions are given in the FAQ.

I’ve already posted a video of a complete trajectory reversal. Maybe you didn’t watch it, but otherwise you’re being stubbornly ignorant choosing to completely ignore video evidence. Also, a 1/2 mile really isn’t far for something moving over 3000 ft/s. It’s clear you’re not speaking from an educated position on this topic.

My point is not that heavy volume is required for this to happen, and it’s strange how you could jump to that conclusion.

Instead, a higher rate of fire gives more opportunities to witness anomolies between shots, within a given time. Combine this with tracers, and now you can easily follow these paths, before and after each bullet hits it’s initial target.

With a 6000 round-per-minute minigun, even if you only see one tracer bounce away every second, that demonstrates a 1% chance for every round to deflect and hit somewhere unintended.

Considering that the tracers are normally spaced out on a belt, with other rounds between them; the sample size can be reduced further, and this chance becomes multiple times higher.

When yearly machine-gun shoots were still hosted in Knob Creek, Kentucky, the range staffed people left and right of the firing line with fire extinguishers. After the ‘finale’ occurred and weapons were cleared, they would run out onto the hills beside the range.

With multiple miniguns firing alongside other automatics, and the insane number of rounds fired downrange, it was inevitable to have more than enough hot tracers land in the brush of these hills to start multiple small fires.

The possibility of ricochet injury is simply matter of probability. Sure, I would never claim this is the most probable explanation, but it’s silly to claim there’s absolutely no chance this could happen.

If you’ve seen tracer fire in real life, I doubt you would keep that position. The fact that a falling bullet traveling at terminal velocity is enough to kill or injure someone, combined with the fact that bullets travel for miles would instantly tell you otherwise. Watch tracers fired at night and you can see how frequent ricochets are when hitting a mix of rocks in dirt. The last video I shared already demonstrated that complete trajectory reversals are even possible, not that this is even required in this circumstance.

The baseball field is only about 1/2 mile from the range backstop (about 22% of a 5.56 bullet’s maximum range). All it would take is a rock plowed up into an inopportune position on the berm to set off a freak accident. Now, as I’ve said in another comment, I absolutely don’t believe this is the most likely explanation; however, to discount it as an impossibility is ignorant.

I agree that fuckery is the most likely explanation in this case. However, ricochets do not need to remain at a constant height or velocity to hurt someone. A round bounced backward and arched just enough to clear the treeline would be enough. I’m kinda shocked an outdoor range would be allowed this close to those fields. Regardless of physical danger, imagine concentrating on playing ball while gunshots ring out in an adjacent lot!

Either fuckery, or a ricochet. My first time shooting tracers was eye-opening to how much bullets bounce around. This guy shooting a 50-cal is hit in his earmuffs after the berm launches the round back at him.

This is a highly pessimistic take. 2 million dollars would conservatively yield $80,000 per year. This would place you at the 70th percentile in the USA for individual income.