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Zero need for them to do that.

Still, apparently they can turn sharply, this looks like 40':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuverable_reentry_vehicle

The "Flight test of the Advanced Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle in early 1980" photo at the bottom. That was a while ago.

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But ... the Anti Avian Artillery?

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> They find ways to cover up the fact that nobody is learning to code properly

Aha, so the secret summary is that:

Both students and teachers want the students to succeed,

so they cheat together, to make that (seem to) happen

> A few of the tricks they used

Thanks for writing about that, really interesting to read (!)

> cheating was rampant

(You don't happen to know about some websites being used for that? I recently found out about studypool dot com.)

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Would-be tyrant -- I'm guessing you have in mind the president in the US who didn't want to leave, after having lost the elections? (Could have made him a dictator at least, eventually, if he had succeeded. A tyrant? Hmm it means "a cruel and oppressive ruler" -- so yes, then, I'd guess it would have turned out that way. Cliffhanger ... soon 2024.) Or am I'm bad at guessing :-)

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> Nobody should take anything they say seriously

It's almost amazing that the newspapers reprint what Putin says, as if it was something to take seriously. Without explaining to the readers that Putin is trying to manipulate them. -- They're sometimes letting themselves be a megaphone he can use, I think.

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> just most people don't bother trying to make it work for them

Could one say that that's why TikTok is so popular? It works although people don't spend time configuring it?

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I also wasn't. Quite depressing laws they had, I think:

    6. If a man violates the right of another and deflowers the virgin wife of a young man, they shall kill that male.
    7. If the wife of a man followed after another man and he slept with her, they shall slay that woman, but that male shall be set free.
    ... and slaves of course ...

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu#Surviving_law... )

Has it been like that for 4000+ years (at some places) :-(

> pictures of the Ziggurat are really impressive

Yes :-)

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Yes, I think he has a bit executive dysfunction -- a bit unable to set and follow up on long term goals.

That'd make it hard for him to join a uni or find ways to make use of his abilities.

I wonder if he'd be more happy, working as a language teacher assistant (why assistant? see the 1st sentence above), for all languages they teach at some university nearby :-)

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> If it's large and expensive the likelihood that it's some random person decreases, it's easy for a UAS with a thermal camera to be $8,000+.

Or it's a fake thermal camera for $8 -- just some plastics but nothing inside. How is anyone a bit away going to know?

Threat modeling wise, these things could be bad & dangerous in one, two, three, four, more, different ways

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But there's around 10 billion people on the planet, you can always find some unusual person to make a point.

In this case, though, she might agree with me, I'd say -- in that she spends part of her time reading and constructing things, from the article you linked: "reading and construction".

Modern tech? I think there's lots of cool not-modern tech, ancient tech.

Edit: She's an amazingly cool person! Thanks for linking the article, I might have a closer look at her & her life (now done. I wonder how many books she has to read, and after how long she's forgotten them so she can re-read)

Edit2: Sorry if my first version of this post sounded a bit grumpy. Now edited

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> Intelligence is also highly context-specific

It's not though. It's the opposite, and that's what makes it interesting, and why it's being measured. The g factor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

General intelligence is related to the ability to learn new things in general, no matter the context.

And today's humans, would, if they got to start as babies 20k years ago, learn all there was to know, about that world. And they'd start feeling bored. Maybe they'd try to build and invent things, just to escape the otherwise for-the-brain empty days.

(You somehow got it the other way around :-) I wonder how you formed your opinions / beliefs about intelligence? If it's ok if I ask)

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If, in your comment, replace IQ with "wisdom" and "knowledge", then it makes sense. A grown up human of toady -- yes, definitely unadapted, knowledge wise.

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> If there were better tools to allow users to say "I don't like this person, I don't want to hear more from then"

That's not a solution in the cases when those people, are using the platform to gather a group of angry people and then will go and kill you and your family and those who look like you.

Now, I'm guessing this isn't a problem in _your_ case -- but it is, for some others (see e.g. FB and Myanmar, or WhatsApp lynch mobs).

Another problem is when the one's you don't want to hear, are spreading propaganda supporting a want-to-be-dictaor. And then eventually they succeed, because those who didn't like the dictator, just ignored them (let them spread the propaganda unhindered). -- What's the likelihood that the US is still a democracy in 30 years. (Btw I didn't downvote your comment)

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:-) Now I just need to write that same message, to 330M + 450M other people in the USA and the EU :-/

(If you share with others this different way of writing, maybe we could split 330M+450M / 2. But maybe you live elsewhere)

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Great, measured in square meters. (MRGA = "make Russia great again")

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> I would actually bet that average Russian and American people probably have a lot more in common

Yes definitely. Thing is, when someone writes "Russia" but in fact means "Putin and his men", or writes "China" but means "the CCP",

then I'm afraid this pushes the people (ordinary citizens) living in those places,

away from the people in Europe and the US.

Because when you write "Russia" and "China", they likely think about that, as including them -- they'd feel that anything critical, was criticizing them too.

Whilst if one writes "Putin and his men", then, ordinary people living in Russia will clearly see that you don't have anything against _them_ -- that you might even be their friend. And maybe one day they (the people in Russia) and the West together can try to do something about Putin.

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If Putin doesn't want NATO countries at the border,

it's not because he thinks NATO would attack

it's because he cannot invade NATO countries.

So, the more NATO countries, the smaller his future Great Russia would be.

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Do you need to write things like "Russia thinks the West ..."?

By doing so it sounds as if you group the people living in Russia, together with Putin.

But this maybe-invasion would be the deed of a dictator and his men. Not Russia-the-people. The people suffer under Putin.

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People like Putin, enjoy playing Risk the board game, in real life.

More people dead (civilians and soldiers from Ukraine) -- would just make Putin feel more proud and important himself. The opposite to how "normal" people's brains work.

(Some others here believing Russia feels "threatened" by the EU and Nato, fundamentally don't understand how people like Putin function. Such things are just what Putin says to mislead the masses. There's no noble or ethical reasons for what Putin is doing -- it's just a machiavellian person having fun, from his perspective. Or making himself less bored.)

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A bit hyperbole? Agreed that these features should be off by default, or removed -- maybe could be included only in a special JVM build,

Still, in Python you can GET and eval:

    r = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
    d = literal_eval(r.decode())

Here's someone "Fetching and evaluating Python code from an HTTP response":

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28047761/fetching-and-ev...

Edit: Apparently `literal_eval` isn't so dangerous -- but one could replace it with `eval()`. /Edit

But you didn't start writing "absolutely insane" about Python ... Or maybe Python too is insane? And there should be a separate Python executable, with eval included?

What if Python shipped 2 executables?

    python   # there's no eval()
    python-with-eval    # danger! now you can use eval()

(And Java as well: `java` couldn't load any code dynamically, but `java-danger-dyn-code` could?)

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