Trump's statements have zero factual value

"People outside the business may not recognize what a step it is, culturally and professionally, for reporters and editors to act on the implications of this reality—the knowledge that what a president or his senior representatives say has exactly zero factual value. If you are trying to inform the public, you’re better off not reporting what this president says, contends, or does, unless there are external indications that it’s true." The Media Learned Nothing From 2016 - The Atlantic

Scanned Technical books

I have put up some PDFs of old books that are out of copyright at goldenbeetle mooo

• Understanding Digital Computers by Paul Siegel (1961)
• Analog Computer Techniques by Clarence L. Johnson (1956)
• Semiconductors by N. B. Hannay (1959)
• There's Adventure in electronics by Julian May (1957)
• Slide Rule Simplified by Charles O. Harris (1961)

bash: ./mono: No such file or directory

If you are ever trying to run a mono binary program (such as from GOG) on a 64-bit Ubuntu and get the error:
bash: ./mono: No such file or directory
the cause might be that you are missing the 32 bit libraries.

$ ls -l mono
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bill bill 3025284 May 22 13:58 mono
$ ./mono
bash: ./mono: No such file or directory
$ strace ./mono
execve("./mono", ["./mono"], 0x7ffefde5caa0 /* 21 vars */) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
fstat(2, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), ...}) = 0
write(2, "strace: exec: No such file or di"..., 40strace: exec: No such file or directory
) = 40
getpid() = 28163
exit_group(1) = ?
+++ exited with 1 +++

On Ubuntu 18 this was solved with (but I am guessing that libc6 was the only install required to at least get a better error message):
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libasound2:i386 libasound2-data:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386 libcaca0:i386 libjpeg-turbo8:i386 libtiff5:i386 libncurses5:i386 libsqlite3-0:i386 libsdl1.2debian:i386 libsdl-mixer1.2:i386 libsdl-image1.2:i386 libgdiplus:i386

Misc links on surviving staying at home

That uncomfortable coronavirus feeling: It could be grief:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/health/grief-loss-coronavirus-pandemic-wellness/index.html

The reason Zoom calls drain your energy:
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200421-why-zoom-video-chats-are-so-exhausting

How to Stay Calm During a Pandemic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2020/04/covid-19-staying-calm-during-a-pandemic/610627/

"Python 2.7.18 is the last Python 2.7
release and therefore the last Python 2 release. It's time for the CPython
community to say a fond but firm farewell to Python 2.

Download this unique, commemorative Python release on python.org."
https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2020/04/python-2718-last-release-of-python-2.html

COVID-19 Graphs

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-by-country.html

Where are the CDC teleconferences?

"Two weeks have now gone by since the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has held a press briefing to update the media and the public on the COVID-19 pandemic and the agency's response efforts." https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/were-in-a-public-health-crisis-wheres-the-cdc/