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Some wonderful magic books I've got a lot out of:

Derren Brown - Absolute Magic and Pure Effect

Tommy Wonder - The Books of Wonder, Vols I & II.

Books by Dariel Fitzkee, e.g. Magic by Misdirection

Berglas - The Berglas Effects (and his other books)

Maybe they're too sophisticated for him, but I sure wish I'd had those when I was a kid! The Derren and Tommy books in particular are so thoughtful, inspiring, philosophical. You have to create your own magic effects - they show you how. The Berglas book puts 200+ (!) pages into explaining his 'Any Card At Any Number' effect in great detail..but it's more a complex of effects than a particular thing with a start and end...most of the time. There's a lot of Derren, TW and Berglas on youtube too.
Great answers. The Judgement thing can be seen when you are at a conference or training and they say "there are no dumb questions". Personally I like to respond with "What is the capital of <obscure state or country>". Gets a nice laugh every time.
My first MMO was ultima online, followed by Ashrons Call (Darktide), SWG, AO and shadowbane, and I’m enjoying the hell out of classic WoW.

I think the GP is absolutely right, Blizzard went to far with their streamlining, and every other MMO copied them.

For me the key difference between modern and classic wow is the design approach to challenge. In classic you go at things expecting to fail, in modern you go at things expecting to win. The difference this makes is that classic makes you happy while modern makes you sad when your expectations aren’t met.

Part of what makes that possible is the player freedom. You can make different builds, you can approach content differently and you can overcome challenges your own way. It’s like Blizzard, and I think modern game design in general, forgot that being challenged and figuring things out is fun.

I think I may have forgotten too, because I’ve been surprised at how well classic holds up in 2019.
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I play at a pub called "The Titanic" in Southampton.

I have seen tables in two other pubs around the city, but never seen them in use there.
RTS works surprisingly great in VR.

One of the best games I have played in recent years is Hidden Paths Brass Tactics.

I really don't understand why this game didn't get more attention than it did.
Rather than reimplementing this stuff, and assuming you are using Django, you could just use Django Rest Framework to get OpenAPI, typed serializers, etc.

In that framework your serializers are by default auto-generated from your model classes; this is convenient to get started, just like Django itself.
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Basically, no. Unless you're in a very popular area, there will be no limits on parking. I've noticed that even out of the way english parking lots have strict limits and frequently automated camera systems for finding perpetrators. Do you know why that is? To keep out "undesirables"(gypsies, vagabonds)?
My understanding from the article is that this activity is more natural and social to them then other tasks like solving visual puzzles, playing "video games". So maybe is similar on people playing with their dogs, the animal enjoys the activity and does not need food rewards.
Thanks, very interesting! I'll take note, and start playing around when I have more space in my apartment :)

I'm generally interesting in hydro-/aeroponics from the perspective of growing plants in space, via, as you mentioned, "programming" them - basically, what's the minimum of nutrients (not just minerals, but also water, air and sunlight) that's needed to grow food (and air) for people.

I also thought about actually programming plants, I wonder if there's any research in this direction - e.g. why do I need an orange plant to grow a trunk? If I could inject the right hormones at the right place, I could skip all that and just have it grow leaves (energy production) and fruit (energy consumption) without any other superfluous parts.
Oh, I've bought code certificates before - I didn't realise the ridiculous process I had to go through was "extended validation "?!

I had to give them a published telephone number for a callback. I don't publish a phone number, so I setup a Skype Number and published it in a free Yellow Pages kind of site - they did a callback, which obviously totally proves I work for Acme Stuff, and then I removed the listing and Skype Number.

I recall there were a couple of other bits of theatre I had to endure, publishing information on random listing sites that don't do any validation of their own, but I don't remember exact what.
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>There’s also the parrots of Telegraph Hill, an escaped domestic population that turned wild and has managed to sustain itself.

Speaking of current attitudes towards wildlife, I find it interesting how we are so keen to promote biodiversity but usually unwilling to consider invasive or introduced species as a way of achieving more stable biodiversity. I think with the ongoing threats to our environment and how this impacts us, we will turn more and more to using invasive species to save our natural and urban environments. I hope we stop thinking of nature as a static thing unable to adapt in ways beyond the limited scope of human imagination.
Not really an issue. If there's an fd pointing outside of the chroot, of course it's possible to do stuff outside of it. That with a path FD a total escape is possible isn't that obvious, but not unexpected.
This progam is bugged as you're relying on file pointer aquired before the chroot.
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I think this is a common enough sentiment. Your first games leave more of an impact and that feeling is often not really related to how good the game is. Just like comfort food, they're comfort games.

I never player Railroad Tycoon, my first in that genre was Transport Tycoon Deluxe, but I feel pretty much the same way about it, and I'm pretty lucky that OpenTTD exists.

Similarly there's a game called Star Reach (also known as Space Federation) that was the first strategy game I played. In retrospect, it was pretty bad, but sometimes I want to play a space game and not even much superior games like Masters of Orion or more modern games like Sins of a Solar Empire will satisfy the particular craving like Star Reach.
> Software engineering is about writing code, devops is about writing yaml files and keying into functionality that was implemented by software engineers.

Creating these strict barriers between teams, especially with the condescension you elicit is exactly how problems arise.

Suppose software engineers write an O(N^2) algorithm because they didn't think the data would grow large. It does. DevOps then launches many more dozens of computers to handle the algorithm. If no one speaks to eachother, everyone thinks things are going smoothly when in reality it's a complete disaster. The DevOps team has much more visibility into the usage, performance, and cost of apps than many developers. Talk to your breathen wisely.
Just yesterday someone asked if there was a way to verify if the email from a purchase was leading to the correct domain to log in to. They wanted to make sure they weren’t being phished. How I wished there was a simple button they could have clicked in their browser that would have shown a window with the company details for the website certificate.

Everybody rails on how useless EVs are, yet it seems like no browsers have spent any time over the past years even trying to improve the UX related to certs. I mean, sure they’ve changed the color and removed the ambiguous company name and country. Which makes you ask why did they ever display country in situations where that isn’t the jurisdiction that issues business licenses, such as in the US?

I mean, click on the lock and through N buttons, then expand various sections and read through dotted identifiers that only ASN.1 experts recognize (seriously, who though it would be a good idea to use OIDs for known fields in the UI?), and then maybe you’ll understand who the certificate is issued to.

At least in the US, when obtaining and EV cert you need the jurisdiction (state), business registration number, they call the business phone number. They basically do some research - usually you need a DUNs number, publicly listed phone number, etc. Wouldn’t it make sense to have a button that when you click it you see a user-friendly window showing the information about the company for OV/EV? I mean, sure, you can register Stripe in a different state - how about providing some statistics like what year the company was formed (usually only file with business registration), a link to the company registration details on the jurisdiction website, the top level domain Whois info, etc? If you wanted to get fancy you could provide a link to the user’s search engine with the company name as the search terms.

Instead it seems like we have a bunch of cryptographers (or maybe just infosec people) obsessed about 1. The money companies are charging for EV certs 2. that it is possible for mistakes to happen. This instead of improving how we present information about a company.

So since there isn’t a perfect, foolproof identity verification system for companies online, now every user online needs to do their own reconnaissance to make sure this is really the website they should be at.
He also played organ in cathedral. That was his day job.
> There really is no reason to use chroot(2)

You mentioned intiramfs yourself, but there are other uses of chroot where security doesn't play a role. Deterministic build environments are an example.
The line between "playing with ideas" and "working on ideas" is blurred for those who find those ideas fascinating (who, I believe, are heavily overrepresented among top scientists). If you define "work" to mean "making yourself do something you don't intrinsically enjoy", then, yeah, many of them probably didn't work hard. But if you count the hours they spent thinking about their scientific or mathematical ideas, then I think you'll find that's often a very high number among the greats like Newton.
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I was left to wonder if chroot along with a well-crafted SELinux policy might get one closer to security nirvana.
Out of interest, what were you doing before and why did you switch?
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Obviously it depends on the app. Most apps I use do it intelligently. Maybe I am avoiding the dumb ones?

I suspect your developer friend is more like the typical developer. In that they never thought about that.

I cannot tell you how many apps / web sites I have used where it is obvious that no one ever took a critical look at the user interaction. They have the pretty picture but not the functional interaction. My biggest bitch is the things that ask you to create, yet another password. Then they do not tell you what BS rules they have until you violate them. In the back of my mind I hear jerk laughing "oh no thats just not right, what wrong with you, you need Upper Lower number symbol, at least 3 of each, not repeating not adjacent on keyboard or ordinarily a note from your mother etc etc...." WTF why can they not list the rules up front. <thank you I feel better now getting that off my chest :)>
My background is more like yours. For me it’s likely a difference in size and type of companies worked for.

> I was hoping that the article would explain what devops really means today and how I can jump on the devops wagon to hopefully make my job of doing all of the above easier.

1. Use AWS Fargate for all of your backend services. Keep the architecture simple enough that complicated service discovery issues etc don’t come up. If you need coordination between services, do it through Redis or similar.

2. Use RDS unless you really need to save money or use unavailable extensions.

3. Use terraform for initially provisioning the above

4. Set up CI/CD such that merges to master automatically update your services. (I like CircleCI’s aws-ecr and aws-ecs orbs for this.)

Pretty simple recipe, but it means no setting up servers, no hardening servers, no installing or optimizing software (other than by adding it to the Dockerfile), no installing or optimizing the database.

This recommendation reflects what modern devops means to me; opinions differ. To me it means:

- Infrastructure as code (terraform rather than clicking buttons in the AWS console then later forgetting which buttons you clicked)

- Immutable infrastructure (aka cattle not pets). Never SSHing into a server again.

- Automated testing and deployment cleanly integrated with existing dev workflow

Obviously there’s a scale at which you have to do something more complex, but I’d say that’s the scale at which you previously would have had an operations team.

Getting rid of the “writing server side code” and “writing front end code” parts is beyond the scope of devops, but you can skip a lot of the “writing server side code” part by using PostgREST. In exchange you may have to write an even-more-untold number of SQL queries, depending on your current practices.

Edit: Someone helpfully pointed out that I forgot to mention anything about logging or monitoring, which is a pretty glaring omission. On that front I strongly recommend Honeycomb. To set it up with Fargate you may need to run it in a sidecar container, but it’s fairly straightforward.
You don't even need that. The BIOS can just install vulnerable SMM handlers and then you're screwed.

I don't get why you say it doesn't affect you - bloated and crappy firmware affects everyone, regardless of OS.
Would it be wise for most people to take a daily multivitamin or supplement? I believe we only need trace amounts of these vitamins and minerals, so even with a 90% decline in mineral levels, it sounds like most people are still getting plenty of minerals.

> 60% of adults do not achieve the average dietary intake (ADI) and 45% of Americans are magnesium deficient.

I'm always a bit skeptical of claims like this, and those percentages are huge. I'm wondering why I've never heard about it before (although I'm very ignorant about a lot of things.) Are there any government efforts to make magnesium supplements widely available, or some other way to solve this problem?
Commoditized cloud is basically paying a company to run your ops for you.

Let's not forget that you'd also have to pay at least 3 (8 hours per shift, not accounting for weekends) people to ensure 24/7 service availability through those 15 Hetzner nodes.

AWS/GCP/Azure et al make it so you generally don't need to worry about the infrastructure part of the problem. Everything else still applies though.
chroot() started out as just a chdir() operating on root directory instead of current directory.

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ChrootHistory
I love the idea of an open source (or just freely available) observatory that lists drone strikes and centralizes this info!
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Well, it is an issue if you can use it to break out of containers that use --no-pivot-root (you can). fd-related escapes are possible for pivot_root(2) but are usually not as trivial as the one for chroot(2).

Also there are other attacks against chroot(2) which don't make use of fd-related escapes (nd->root protections in pathname lookup are very minimal and there are lots of ways to trick them).
I think you missed my point which is that riding without a helmet is not dangerous. Americans think it's dangerous because of the way the culture treats everyone as if they are children who need a nanny because they don't know any better. If indeed it was true that "There's nothing bizarre about seeing someone who abuses their safety net as selfish or irresponsible," then why don't people in Amsterdam and Europe in general have this reaction? They actually have a safety net unlike America.
Imagine this program was running within a chroot(2) that it didn't set up. You can nest a chroot(2) and break out -- that was the point I was making.
Love that explanation! Part of why Facebook grow so big is, that it was basically never down!
>Clinical assessment for FTT is recommended for babies who lose more than 10% of their birth weight or do not return to their birth weight after three weeks.

I am not sure if the comparison is relevant here, the numbers are not large but they are significant, something is wrong and it needs investigation. You losing 5% weight may be nothing but if you in the same time have constant pain because of damage do your digestive track is not pleasant at all.

I am wondering if similar tests was done on rats?. -- I google it and it causes cancer
> For all the faults of patents (and there are many), one of the great benefits is that when you patent something, you must publish it for all to see.

Do people tend to learn things from patent filings, or from other sources?

I've looked at a few patents, and they don't read like anything that tries to educate the reader.
Presumably they would be donating to an elite college in the hope of improving the child’s chance of admission.
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They are Billions is a very well made game! I like it. And it's actually a refreshingly colorful game.

The tower defense element (thousands of zombies spawning and storming your settlement) makes it a pretty punishing game: you try to frantically build out your settlement while protecting it from early waves for about two hours before the inevitable overwhelming final wave comes. You don't know until the very end whether you are doing OK or not.
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September 13, 2019

President Trump said Thursday energy-efficient lightbulbs are the reason his skin may appear orange and is one of the reasons his administration rolled back Bush-era regulations to move away from traditional incandescent lightbulbs.

Mr. Trump told a room full of Republicans, at the same time as the third Democratic presidential debate, that the new lightbulbs are the reason his skin may appear orange-colored, a common insult lobbed at him by his critics.

“People said what is with the lightbulb? Here is a story. I looked at it. The bulb we are being forced to use, number one, to me, most importantly, the light’s no good. I always look orange, and so do you. The light is the worst,” the president said.

“Frankly, the light is not as good. We are going to sell that, but we are going to sell incandescent bulbs, and people are happy, it has been amazing,” he continued.

The regulations, which were set to go into effect in January 2020, were formulated during the Bush administration and implemented under the Obama administration to gradually remove more energy-inefficient halogen and incandescent bulbs from the market and replace them with LED versions.

Mr. Trump said the incandescent bulbs “worked very well” and that the new bulbs were “more expensive” to make and could be dangerous.

“Number two, it is many times more expensive than that old incandescent bulb,” he said. “I don’t know if you know this, they have warnings. If it breaks, it is considered a hazardous waste — waste site. It has gases inside. Read what they say. If it breaks, bring it to your local whatever, have it wrapped — what are we doing?”

Mr. Trump is likely referring to fluorescent CFL lights, which contain mercury but have been steadily replaced with the more efficient and safer LED versions.
Yep, and we’ve been doing it for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otium
I would agree that Classic is a decent experience compared to modern MMOs, even if it's not the style of MMO I prefer.

That said, I kinda understand how Blizzard got to where it is with modern WoW. Blizzard has always been known for taking existing ideas and streamlining them and polishing them as much as possible. That, and not gameplay innovation, has always been their forte. In a way they're analogous to Apple, they take ideas that have been tried by others and combine them into a single polished experience.

Since polishing and streamlining is what they know best, and since it has always brought them success (even the original WoW was very polished and streamlined, or if put less charitably, dumbed down, when compared to other MMOs of the time), it's understandable that when faced with a declining player base they'd continue doing what they know best. Big corporations like that don't really have a good mechanism for changing course and trying something else, so they keep doubling down on their old ways and hoping it keeps working until a breaking point is reached, and then they do stuff like re-release their old games hoping to cash in on the nostalgia.
That is only true if Starcraft style RTS games.
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I’m not sufficiently familiar with the geography of SF or LA – how does the door-to-door time and cost compare when you account for the fact that most trips don’t actually start and end at an airport? I’d much rather catch a sleeper bus/train in the city centre in the evening, sleep for 7–8 hours (something I’d be doing anyway) and wake up in another city centre the next morning with a full day ahead of me than deal with the hassle of travelling to an airport, going through security, killing time at the gate, and travelling back to the city centre at my destination.
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I love how pointless some of their Apple-style Marketing blurb is.

“1.6x smoother than a Maglev train”
(which I highly doubt because they don’t have connection to the ground and ‘fly’ above the guard rail but whatever)

How many Californians have ever been on a Maglev (such as the Shanghai Transrapid). How does anyone know what 1.6x smoother means compared to something uncomparable
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You can indeed do what you describe. It is a sometime useful tactic in e.g. quest battles where you can kill a target then withdraw. An uncommon thing to do but generally possible.

But what you seem to describe are tactical operations, so they are happening on a tactical map. Sneaking up a group of units with stalk/forward deployment behind enemy lines then hitting the backline with it in an opportune moment when the main lines are engaging is a staple in a tactical engagement. As are the flanking maneuvers. You might not be hitting the workers or the production buildings but taking out an artillery piece is just as important and satisfying. Cavalry play has alot of the 'dodge the intercepting force' moments, etc.

The high-end TW multiplayer play is not the same and it might not be as difficult as high-end Starcraft play but I have never found the apm requirements and the need to control both macro and micro at the same time an appealing challenge. And the single player campaign is just straight up better because of a sheer variety of what you are doing.
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That's called the multiple comparaison problem in statistics and it is both well kown and compensated for in most studies (the hard part being not to have too mauch false negatives in an effort to keep the quantity of false positives constant) :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
Once a certain skill is fully internalized, using it may require no attention at all.

It's similar to growing a coprocessor designed to do this task, load on CPU is reduced and you may also get a small cache to buffer it for a while without losing context even if interrupted.

It has limitations, too complex tasks are hard for brain to make automatically facile.
The thing is, it doesn't get better when you log in. I deleted my account shortly after creating it, because medium kept nagging me about stuff.