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Ha, this is interesting. A graphics designer working at Microsoft took the liberty to use the Bill Gates mugshot photo .

20200926/https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/48565/was-bill-gates-mugshot-photo-used-in-2010-as-a-template-for-outlook-contacts

20200926/https://library.stanford.edu/areas/apple-computer-collections/access-apple-collections

Really, is there more information online surrounding the famous Bill Gates mugshot photo? It sure comes up a lot of times, but the mentions are always that the details aren’t clear around the cause of the arrest, other than it was for some minor traffic violation. Well, yeah, that’s it. But there are other traffic citations of Bill Gates where the details are more clear.

So, what it seems it could be is something like this. Well, Bill Gates was known to be very evasive in court… he doesn’t play well with authority so some would say. And from the later police report that is better understood, it wouldn’t be too far a stretch to say that Bill Gates may have lashed out too much at the previous police encounter, thus leading to his arrest.

Yeah, and apparently Bill Gates likes racing/speeding.

20200928/DuckDuckGo why is the bill gates mugshot photo so popular
20200928/https://corruptico.com/2017/08/31/bill-gates-arrested-cop-fired/
20200928/https://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/bill-gates-famous-mugshot-due-to-a-speed-ticket-in-a-porsche-ar25588.html
20200928/https://www.quora.com/What-did-Bill-Gates-do-to-go-to-jail?share=1

Very interesting news here about heightened COVID-19 spread in Orthodox Jewish communities in New York, mention of a serious lockdown in Israel, and… why are they so resistant to wearing masks? They want to cover the rest of their bodies with lots of clothes, hats included, is wearing a mask really that bad for their style?

20200926/https://twitter.com/SHL0MS/status/1309251446467067904
20200926/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/nyregion/coronavirus-orthodox-jewish-communities.html

Okay, sure, so this Liberty Packaging company, yeah they’re near to me and a local name and all that. But maybe I shouldn’t have that bias, maybe I should search the Internet and simply see who is the best when it comes to selling custom boxes. So I do… and fortunately it turns out that the best name is actually quite near to me to, right in Minnesota. Oh, wow. Custom Boxes Now is their name.

20200924/DuckDuckGo order custom corrugated cardboard boxes
20200924/https://customboxesnow.com/
20200924/https://customboxesnow.com/AboutUs.aspx
20200924/https://customboxesnow.com/Contact.aspx
20200924/https://customboxesnow.com/Box_Printing_101.aspx
20200924/https://customboxesnow.com/2_Color_Printed_Boxes.aspx

They have everything I need, it’s just not all available from their custom box builder on their website. Still, it’s a useful tool for getting a quote. And, they also allow you to order in quantity of one, and you can ship via FedEx. That’s all very great.

Bleach white box on outside, kraft brown on inside? Got it. Digital printing without offset plate preparation? Got it. Two-color printing? Got it. Laminated printing? Got it too.

I checked two other comapnies, Great Northern Corporation (GNC) and Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) but I’d reckon that Liberty Packaging and Custom Boxes Now are both better choices.

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First of all, during early discussion at the GoMN Meetup, someone presented a link to a COVID-19 chart website that they really liked, mainly because it shows the data adjusted for the population and you can overlay the data for multiple states together.

20200923/https://covid19chart.org/#/?select=FL%3BTX%3BGA%3BAZ%3BMN%3BWI%3BAR%3BND%3BOK&stat=totals&norm=pop&include=MN%3BWI%3BAR%3BND%3BSD%3BGA%3BFL%3BTX%3BNY%3BOK%3BAZ&start=2%2F29%2F20

Now, for the presentation name and title info, dependency injection as a means of software test. Make it real easy and elegant in Golang.

20200923/https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#dependency-injection

Fuse, dependency injection, Raj, link to his GitHub.

Okay, so maybe now after COVID-19 hit, my local library has better support for Ebooks. Well, let’s see. Yes, indeed they do have something very clear in the ways of support now. They use an app called OverDrive, that’s how they manage Ebook lending. The purpose, of course, is to adequately support DRM. Also, the Adobe standard format that offers the equivalent? Well, PDF files with DRM strings attached, those require Adobe’s new special reader, Adobe Digital Editions (ADE), and unfortunately, it does not work on Linux. Neither does the OverDrive dedicated app. But fortunately, you can read in-browser, but that means you can’t download for non-networked use.

NOTE: Digital archival collections are distinctively different than commercially published digital books.

20200922/DuckDuckGo hennepin county digital library
20200922/https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/custom/home
20200922/DuckDuckGo hennepin county librrary ebooks
20200922/https://hclib.overdrive.com/
20200922/DuckDuckGo hennepin county library overdrive
20200922/https://www.hclib.org/browse/online-resources/online-resources-container/online-resources-section/online-resources-o-r/overdrive-digital-library

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Wow, now this is interesting. Someone used GPT-3 to write a series of blog posts and passed them off as written by himself. It became wildly popular, gained followers, and most were not aware that it was fake.

20200921/https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-visitors
20200921/https://adolos.substack.com/p/feeling-unproductive-maybe-you-should
20200921/https://adolos.substack.com/p/what-i-would-do-with-gpt-3-if-i-had