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Another interesting observation: in the same time frame, about a quarter of the papers in every issue are devoted to computer security, some of it on preventing insider attacks. My cynical take-away: "we will spy and record everything about you, but we do not actually know how to keep any of this data secure, and also we want to punish whistleblowers."

So ACM has made their journals public access during the pandemic. I have been spending time systematically looking through every issue of Computing Surveys (check it out, one of the best most useful ACM journals). Since 2016, about a third of every issue has been devoted to thinly disguised mass #surveillance techniques. Something is Very Fucked Up in computer science right now.

Protocols over web apps. The user interface is not the message.

Unit test dilemma time. One of my projects: "Did 666 checks. Pass: 666 (100%)" Do I stop adding tests? Drop a test for every test I add?

Coronavirus is the Eternal September of Hacker News

This #APL operator documentation from MicroAPL is really handy and concise: http://www.microapl.com/apl_help/ch_020_020.htm

Video of Donald Trump interrupting Deborah Birx during an April 3 White House press briefing to make a joke about having sex with models. Appalling beyond words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wqj2uHnQS4

Capitalist response to coronavirus: slash doctors' salaries: https://www.propublica.org/article/coronavirus-er-doctors-nurses-benefits

#LosAngeles #rentstrike If your landlord has served you a Notice to Pay Rent or Quit in violation of the mayor's orders, report your landlord to the city: https://hcidla.lacity.org/covid-19-eviction-moratorium

#LosAngeles #RentStrike DO NOT PAY RENT ON APRIL 1ST!!!

http://lamayor.org/sites/g/files/wph446/f/article/files/Mayor%20Garcetti%20Emergency%20Order%20-%20March%2015%202020.pdf

Eviction help resources:
Coalition for Economic Survival http://cesinaction.org/ (213) 252-4411
Eviction Defense Network https://edn.la/ info@edn.la
Los Angeles Tenants Union https://latenantsunion.org/ (213) 986-8266
Housing Rights Center http://www.hrc-la.org/ 800-477-5977
BASTA Inc. https://www.basta.org/ (213) 736-5050
Neighborhood Legal Services https://www.nlsla.org/ (800) 433-6251

Why do people think it is ok to use the phrase "deep dive" to refer to essays that are shallow introductions? #lies

Ripgrep tip: put --no-ignore or at least --no-ignore-vcs in your config. Spent a bunch of time debugging link error in an autoconf-ed project last night before realizing that generated header files were not showing up in searches because they were in .gitignore 🤦‍♂️