I think it depends where you’re coming from. For me:

• I owned an oculus 1 dev kit, and had some experience with VR a long time ago and enjoyed it, but there weren’t many games.
• Meta bought oculus and requires a meta account to even use their devices, so that’s a no for me.
• Valve index looked interesting, but I wasn’t aware of it at launch, and by the time I was, there were whispers of a successor, so I wanted to wait.

So I have no VR headset and I want to get into again. From my research, this is the best all around non-meta headset on the market (especially if you’re getting the color pass through accessory). Plus I love Valve’s whole model of making things free, open source, and interpretable. So supporting them financially is fine by me as well.

Yes. They text you promotions, when you go somewhere new and different rules are in affect, and you can often get basic support via text as well.

with the riots, we’re actually getting a lot of people calling out, but we are still going to need you to come in…

No. Artificial light almost certainly isn’t sufficient unless it’s made for growing plants. Sun is your best bet. You can buy LED grow lights as well that might work.

To add on to what the other commenter said, these are certificates, and from the look of it, root certificates.

This is the underpinning of HTTPS and modern web encryption. Here’s the problem they are solving:

If you want to make a secure connection to Amazon and make sure data you are sending them is really Amazon and not someone pretending to be them, a root certificate is how you do it. There’s more nuance than I’m explaining, but it cryptographically verifies you are talking to who you think you’re talking to.

There is no good reason to manually be deleting them. Leave them alone, it’s not hurting anything.

You have to meet your audience where they are at. Twitch makes a lot of sense and has a lot of reach.

My guess is alcohol was involved. He looks to be sitting in first class and they’re pretty liberal with the booze up there. Someone like that is probably drinking before the flight as well. I imagine his neighbor and him had been chatting for a while and it was probably turning more confrontational as time went on. The article even says he was choking his neighbor and that’s how the fight started.

Edit: his neighbor (the guy who got choked) sounds…interesting.

Author Jonathan Cahn said that now-fired Arizona realtor Arthur Layne Lundeen, 67, allegedly started hurling racist and homophobic slurs after first screaming at him that “Jesus is bullsh*t,” the New York Post reports.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/seatmate-of-crazed-ducttaped-plane-passenger-reveals-what-sparked-wild-midflight-meltdown/news-story/74b7ba19a7086d88493d52b084628229

I think ultimately it depends on how the researcher was using their products. If you have a premium ChatGPT account and you’re using the web or codex attached to that account, they are training on that data.

If they purchased API credits and are using it with the API I linked docs to, they shouldn’t be consuming any of that data for training.

Both ways of using the service are near identical in terms of output they can create, but that small billing nuance carries a big impact.

I’ve not seen a technical write up of this dispute that clarifies that point though.

I don’t know the full story, but it’s worth saying that OpenAI alleges they do NOT train models when using API calls. I’d expected researchers to know that and pick the right tool accordingly. Maybe what this researcher is alleging is that even that statement isn’t true.

At OpenAI, protecting user data is fundamental to our mission. We do not train our models on inputs and outputs through our API.

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/concepts

This is made dumber by Kimmel almost certainly being willing to have Paxton on. But Paxton is only mostly a dummy and wouldn’t dare to go out there an answer for his years of crimes and corruption.

Bite the bullet and get an accountant.

Some years ago my taxes got more complex and I thought I could just do it online. TurboTax told me I was going to owe a bunch. I went out and found a CPA firm and after having them do my taxes, I saved so much money it paid for the fee they charged.

A good accountant is invaluable. I’d recommend a firm over an individual.

I bought a TV recently and it’s difficult to find a major brand without a ton of smart features. I bought a Samsung and just don’t let it get on the internet. It’s…ok

Very cool! Just downloaded Endless Sky and I’m excited to try it out.

It’s almost 0.2% of one.

I am not in competition, Skyler. I am the competition. A gamer sits down at his rig needing relief, and you think that of me? No. I am the one who created it.

A brave choice putting the pee inlet so close to the bottom of the bucket. You’re not even gonna get two days out of that before you need to empty. That’s valuable gaming time!

I like the tummy jiggle as it velcros himself up.

It’s my belief that this model will eventually die and you’ll need to pay for actual usage. The Claude pro subscription almost certainly loses them money over pure credits.

The media had all sorts of names for me. The Distance Defender, The Absentee Advocate, and a few other less creative ones. It was fine by me as this was sort of my specialty at this point. I adjusted my tie and glasses and walked into the courtroom for the last phase in my latest trial.

“Your Honor, as I’ve shown in the last few weeks of this trial, my client Clint Jeffries couldn’t have committed these crimes. I have highly regarded witness testimony from Dr. Livingston and her colleagues saying that Mr. Jeffries was in Prague for the 2 weeks before and the week after the heist. Additionally, his bank records and credit card statements make it clear that his standard of living hasn’t changed. All the evidence points towards my client being innocent.”

The judge had his head down reviewing documentation, trying to see if there’s anything he missed from this case. He had the distinct impression I was lying, but without documented proof of that, there really wasn’t much he could do.

“I find Mr. Jeffries…not guilty on all counts.”

My client over Zoom barely smiled, but I was thrilled. As I walked out of the courtroom that day, a crowd of reporters gathered around me for the typical questions.

“Justice was served here today, and an innocent man won’t be forced to suffer this circus of a trial anymore. No further questions, thank you for your time.”

I walked back to my car, opened the door, got in, and let out a deep sigh. It doesn’t really ever get easier, but my luck has lasted for another trial. I opened up my glovebox and pulled out a wallet and a box of ID cards. As I opened it up, I pulled out the ID card for Clint Jeffries and tossed it in the glovebox on its own, and pulled out a new one from the box. Joseph Montgomery. Forty-one, no priors, currently three days into a fourteen-day cruise with over a thousand witnesses. He doesn’t look much like me, but if I lose the glasses and grab a wig from storage, I think I’ll be passable. The bank branch the next town over is holding a lot of cash due to an issue with the armored car pickup schedule. Time to make some calls. I’ll have to thank Rebecca for her testimony, a nice return of the favor I did for her a few years back.