HappyDreamer

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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.

But ... the Anti Avian Artillery?

> 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.)

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 :-)

> 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.

> 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?

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 :-)

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 :-)

> 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

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

> 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.

> 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)

:-) 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)

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

> 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.

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.

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.

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.)

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?)

> cron to submit in 10 years the same post with updated number to say 12B

Apparently not, look:

https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-projected-reach-...

"World population projected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050, and 11.2 billion in 2100"

It's slowing down. But increasing a lot, in a few countries. (I didn't downvote b.t.w)

> We have to come up with a ethic solution

If you try, won't some people somewhere on the Internet, get angry at the ideas you have, and start writing angry things to and about you?

The announcement starts with:

> Transparency is key in maintaining the trust of our community

and then proceeds with apparently a bit trying to hide the dangerous bug, behind a wall of text.

> The other "half" of population can't stand that

There will always be, I think, people who don't like whatever way you choose to do software job interviews, because they're not good at it, and then, some of them don't like it.

> Take home small project

Hmm yes it's unfair that some people don't have the time. What if everyone got to start at the same time, say, 12:00 UTC the 1st Saturday each month, and everyone got exactly 2 hours. Maybe that could work also for people with kids -- after all, 2 hours isn't much more than travelling to and back from an on site interview (in the same city).

Time and days could vary, trying to make it work for everyone

Assuming medium size, then, @giarc:

> I would say that no one on Earth could comprehend 1.4 trillion balloons

Consider this: If everyone on the planet got 1 party balloon every month, we'd deplete that helium source in about 10 years.

You can look at a chain, and see: This link is broken, the chain is broken. But if it looks intact, you cannot just from looking at it, know how strong it is.

GP:

> > Israel is written about, almost always negatively, on a daily basis on all major newspapers

You could say that about the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) as well or the dictators in Saudi Arabia. Sometimes there's a well founded reason for criticizing the state in a country.

That does not mean the ones who criticize the Israeli state or the CCP, would think that everyone in Israel or China are bad people.

P:

> same observations as you

There's a cognitive bias to notice negative sounding things written about one's own "soccer team", but not notice positive or neutral things so much.

Let's say there's 1 article about settlers taking land, 1 about the Israeli state selling suicide bomber drones to Azerbaijan, and 15 articles about vaccination, tech companies, the Pride Parade, other things -- maybe you wouldn't remember the 15 latter, only keep the 1 + 1 former in mind.

(This is as expected b.t.w. thinking about evolution and hunter gatherer tribes long ago)

> they dig a hole in the river

Maybe a silly question, but why did they dig a hole in the river? Wasn't there water there already, at that time?

Or maybe the river is dried up in the summer, and they dig a hole (dig? drilled?) to access water in the ground below?

> though apparently fish supersede their water rights

I'm curious about what your grandparents think about the water restrictions (if you happen to know, and if I may ask)

> there will always be security holes and tools to take advantage of them. Shaming the toolmaker does little.

And there'll always be ways and weapons to rob banks and kill the clerks,

so selling weapons to bank robbers is fine then, as per that logic

> Those who are in countries where the people don't control the government really have no recourse

They can arrange protests and other things and try to long term change the country to a democracy. And that gets harder and more dangerous, when NSO and others help the dictators track down dissidents.

> including shape of the object or windspeed

I suppose the air (the wind) tends to be colder than objects in the sun, since most sunshine pass straight through the air.

A way to investigate this, is to step barefoot on flat black stones, in the summer sunshine