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I usually use jq to understand the structure of the file. `keys` will get you all the key names in an object; `with_entries(.value |= type)` will replace each element on an object with its type. You can quickly delve into a JSON and gain some understanding of it with jq.


With words that have meanings? To the layperson, "data center" and "supercomputers" translates to "tech stuff".

"AWS is a service by Amazon that runs software for you in computers connected to the internet" is still inaccurate, but has a meaning for the layperson other than "tech buzzwords with superlatives".


It's reasonable to expect the typical Atlantic reader to know what a supercomputer is and to ascertain what a data center is in this context. Painting with a broad brush that's what AWS is.


Eh, it's not that inaccurate. AWS is a bunch of data centers full of big computers that simulate a bunch of smaller computers.


Can you say that in a generally digestible way?


AWS is a computing service built on "datacenters" located all around the world, which are large warehouses packed tightly with racks of computers that are networked together and efficiently powered and cooled.

I'm missing a description of virtual machines / containers but that might be going into too much detail.


It definitely has to do with low salaries: by Spanish standards, I'd say that's a good job offer. Sure, the range advertised is too broad to be useful, but at least there is one; a good one, too, considering that most tech jobs here are on the 18-30k range.


This is about icon fonts and font rendering and has nothing to do with Unicode. Code points don't have colour; there's no colour requirements anywhere in the spec.

Your fonts don't have to support the entirety of Unicode. That's why we have font stacks and fallbacks.


U+1F499 BLUE HEART U+1F49A GREEN HEART U+1F49B YELLOW HEART U+1F49C PURPLE HEART U+1F53D DOWN-POINTING SMALL RED TRIANGLE U+1F536 LARGE ORANGE DIAMOND U+1F537 LARGE BLUE DIAMOND ...


That doesn't directly translate to a color requirement in the font, though.


Except skin colours which are now modifiers.


The crucial point is that XSS vulnerabilities are an application level issue. If you have an XSS vulnerability, your application is broken. Good development practices prevent XSS vulnerabilities.

Your application does not have a CSRF vulnerability; HTTP cookies have a CSRF vulnerability. Your application may depend on HTTP cookies, which exposes this vulnerability through your application. The so-called "CSRF protection" is a hack that patches a protocol vulnerability at the application level.


Working touch screens are useless without usable touch UIs.


The git support is a big deal. I loathe SourceTree and the like, but VSC is basically a better `git add -p` for me.


It's funny that the Git support of VSCode is better than that of Atom, since Atom is from GitHub, haha.


Well, for one, they make about 50% of full measures, give or take.


So, if they aren't willing to go through whatever random whiteboard bullshit you decide is due, then they can't join your company? Sounds like you're doing them a favor, not the other way around...


> It's like discussing guns with people who will never use them.

You mean that it also creates a toxic culture which disproportionally hurts poor people and minorities? Agreed!

> lotteries are great sources of revenue (better than state corporate income taxes? Holy cow!)

They're only so because the US has this inmensely powerful anti-tax culture and lobbies. Plus, lotteries take money from the poor, which means they're aggravating the very problems we use taxes to solve.

> they are low-health-risk (someone may need treatment for gambling addiction but it never hurts their lungs or livers)

Mental health issues are health issues. Gambling addiction is not a low health risk.

> Just don't come crying to me when the state comes for your income and property taxes to make up the difference...

They should! They should come for my income and for my property taxes, and even more so for the income and property taxes of those who are richer than me. Taking money from the poor to fund the services that poor people need is obviously counter-productive.


Face it: you or anyone else isn't gonna get poor people to stop playing the lottery any more than corporations are gonna stop getting cozy tax breaks, or getting people who make decent money to campaign for it to be taxed more.

So the question I ask is: what is an acceptable compromise? Without a lottery, how much tax revenue are you going to need to make up the difference? How high can taxes be raised before people and corporations decide to move to the next state over, or even leave the country?

Taxes, lotteries, vices, addictions, weapons, they'll always be a part of our society and we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking things we don't like can simply be deleted. So, where do you draw the lines, and where do you compromise?


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