Microsoft owns most of the upside of OpenAI already. Everything they’ve invested so far is recoupable as 20% of future profits, and much of what was invested was in the form of Azure credits. They have a perpetual license to any OpenAI technology developed to date and in the future until they achieve AGI.

I don’t see why they’d want OpenAI. What they really want is a bunch of other suckers to come in and keep financing it so they can profit from the previous deal.

I have that remote, I don’t use it anymore, but it’s surprisingly good

Muh property values!

I let my backyard go wild. I originally planned to plant some stuff in the grassy areas and make some paver paths, but I got lazy. Now my raspberry bushes have doubled their area, but I can’t get to them because I have a thorny flowering bush all over the place. At least the birds and insects are enjoying it.

I’ve always been surprised that big tech let cloudflare become such a load bearing part of the Internet without serious competition.

Tax software is useless for most Americans if it can do E-file, and you have to be a tax software company partnered with the IRS to do that.

If you print and paper file it takes ages to get your tax return. The biggest moneymaker for TurboTax is return anticipation loans, where they instantly give you your money(minus an obscene amount of interest for money that is guaranteed to be repaid).

They did the same thing with trucking. Told everyone it was a solid middle class career in dire need of workers. Convinced a bunch of states and the feds to foot the bill for truck driving schools.

They never needed more drivers, what they needed was more people to sucker in to predatory truck leases. They get new graduates to sign a lease for a truck. The lease forces them to only work for the company that leases them the truck, forcing them to accept whatever mileage rate the company decides to give them. Once the driver gets sick of that, the company takes the truck and leases it to the next person they recruit directly from trucking school(paid for by the government).

I used Phase Shift a few years ago. It was a little bit of a pain to get setup and the timing working correctly, but there was a lot of pirateable song files for it.

It’s basically identical to rock band for drums.

Clone hero is newer, but I haven’t tried it

I think it’s mostly because of traffic accidents, not violence.

Is that a mandatory tip, what you normally tip or delivery service charge?

I know someone who works at Domino’s and the pay structure is crazy at his store. He gets $15 an hour when he’s at the store, but $7.25 while he’s on deliveries. He gets $3 of the service charge, but it’s a draw, meaning he only gets it after the charges have paid off his $7.25 hourly pay. He also gets a mileage reimbursement, but it’s apparently not calculated right very often.

He still does ok, but it’s purely on tips.

I worked at a place that sold them and dealing with those people was exhausting. I get they have an addiction and I have empathy for that, but they sometimes engage in that addiction in the most annoying ways possible.

I used to have all these people who wanted to know what number each book of tickets was on to look for patterns, or want to buy from a book that had a lot of winners, or buy from a book with few winners, or only want late/early in a book. Then they will proceed to lose $200 10 bucks at a time.

No income or sales tax in NH, but it’s not a good thing. It actually makes taxes regressive because property tax has to be so much higher to pay for the schools. People in poor communities pay sometimes 10x the property tax rate for much worse schools.

One time a twink working at Burger King told me I looked like Heath Ledger. I’m guessing he was hitting on me, but maybe he just needed glasses.

My partner might be getting a job!

They’re pretty limited in the kinds of work they can do, but the place they volunteer at is hiring an assistant manager. They talked to the manager about it and it sounds like they have the job as long as they can get past the person who initially reviews the resumes.

The hiring process is a little weird because the place is run by Catholic Charities even though it isn’t a religious organization. Someone from CC has to screen the applications first and do a background check, even though they already work there for free.

They’re super excited about this and I’m really proud of them for pushing past their discomfort and going for it.

I have one docker container that won’t restart after a reboot. It has “restart: unless-stopped”, just like all the containers that do restart.

If I run “docker compose up”, it immediately says “container name: running”, it doesn’t need to pull or anything.

I can’t find anything useful on Google, other than a GitHub issue with other people having the same issue and then it being marked stale.

It’s not that big a deal, but it’s annoying that it only happens with this one container. It’s not something wrong with the container afaik, the logs show just a normal shutdown and then nothing after reboot.

Anyone have any ideas?

Wow, great video. I’m never around children and never going to have children, but it was genuinely fascinating.

I’ve been doing Walmart spark gig work. One of my first orders was shopping for someone. They ordered 5 gallons of whole milk, 28 chocolate cookies, a box of double stuffed Oreos, a chocolate cake and a bra.

I get all the stuff in the order the app tells me to, which has the bra last. It doesn’t say which size, so I end up having to scan every one, none of which is correct. So I tap the button to say it’s not in stock and go to check out. Right before I get there it says, “Order cancelled. Give the cart to an associate or leave it in a safe place.”

It’s late and no employees are around, so I just end up leaving the cart full of milk just sitting there, because I’m not getting paid to stock shelves.

The whole thing was bizarre, but at least I still got paid $12.

*What is success

https://github.com/JamesRy96/audiobookbay-automated

https://github.com/calibrain/calibre-web-automated-book-downloader

These are crude downloaders with WebUI’s for downloading audiobooks and ebooks respectively, using annas-archive and audiobookbay. I recently connected them up to Calibre-web-automated and Audiobookshelf, so my less tech literate partner can easily download and read pirated books without any work on my part.

Nothing special, but it’s basically like an *arr stack for books.

Plus great medical, dental and a pension. Being a chief, he almost certainly gets a nice take-home vehicle, with maintenance and gas paid for.