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Not at all surprising. Google, Meta and many others have made billions selling an ads - I’m sure OpenAI wants a piece of that pie.

Oahu, Hawaii is another notable location. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Cryptologic_Center

I often wonder this myself. Maybe it is just that difficult a problem. Or maybe it's because Big Pharma doesn't have strong motivation when the treatment is more lucrative than a c…

Yeah, probably depends on the school system. In my area, the community and state college have a program that allows students to transfer directly into a four year degree after comp…

Assuming loss of GPS, no, not fail-safe. Weather conditions (or anything that obscures a view of terrain) can cause this type of navigation to fail.

I wouldn’t call meta- and compile-time programming limited in modern C++ (C++17 and above). With the addition of “constexpr” and “consteval” compile time programming is the same as…

Horner’s method [0] is also commonly used on small microcontrollers without divide (or multiply) instructions. [0] https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slaa329a/slaa329a.pdf

Just imo, humans thousands of years ago didn’t have media that informed them instantly of every horrible thing that can, and does, happen. There were also fewer humans (which I fin…

Give it time and the vine will probably fall off on its own. I had a similar situation and it took well over a year before the tree was free of vines. Forcefully removing the vine …

I moved to a property on the East coast with a somewhat wild backyard and a lot of big oaks and maples. I kept away from anything I thought resembled poison ivy. One particular oak…

You can’t return null from a constructor (constructors have no return)

To the “victimless crime” comment; is it really? What about children who have addicts for parents, or people injured by someone DWI, etc?