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by jkestner 3y ago
Some are here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7b4nq/fired-comedian-ordere...
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A good point. Where’s the cost-benefit to use _more_ plastic to create more durable products, even at the cost of recyclability? Right now I’m making a product that should last 10 years outdoors. I wanted to pick PET or HDPE for their high
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APR Design Guide for Plastics Recyclability(plasticsrecycling.org)
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It’s hard to know what is practically recyclable even ignoring the variation in municipalities. A good resource for product makers from the actual recyclers that’s a little more direct: https://plasticsrecycling.org/apr-desi
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If you're middle-aged, you might get a chance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_Orbiter_and_Probe It's the highest priority probe, but wouldn't get there until the 2050s. To borrow a thought from idl
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This line gets repeated a lot. Sometimes people need both A and B, but they have to choose A xor B. There's so little competition in this space that voting with your wallet barely moves the needle. Giving a company public feedback does
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That doesn't jibe with reality. Tech companies are making record profits at the same time they're laying off workers by the thousands. Companies have been using "macroeconomic" conditions as an excuse for increased price
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https://www.eonline.com/news/1071481/remember-when-apple-for...
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And here I thought I could stop buying supplies for our teachers when my kids go to college.
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The tip is not for any particular effort. It's just an inefficient way to pay the bartender a living wage. The employer should do it, but while I vote for higher minimum wages, lower cost of living, and back the Alamo Drafthouse unioni
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This is probably why Alamo Drafthouse (that theater) now just automatically adds an 18% service fee. The point of the article is to engender empathy for the worker's situation, not necessarily to diagnose or solve the problem. But you
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Thanks, brain fart. They're all pretty unimaginative.
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> insane home automation tech prices And yet some comments are complaining that it’s more expensive than a Tuya-based solution or whatever. I think this is at the heart of the problem: people want the longevity and cost of a dumb-home pr
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IKEA support for Matter smart homes still delayed(theverge.com)
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Current governor seems to like throwing money at tech just to show how tech-savvy he is (coincidentally, it’s all for the PD). Keeping the libraries open on the weekend would’ve cost a lot less!
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Apple has in fact already solved these problems satisfactorily, on a platform called macOS. That’s what a smart company does when it knows it can’t put the third-party apps back in the box, and still feels motivated to uphold its reputation
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Let Amazon sell you a garagecam that they can feed into their driver surveillance system.
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For Amazon, yeah. USPS is still like that (well, I haven't asked for gardening help).
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The stability is nice, agreed, but it's inevitable that monopoly/monopsony gets abused. Samsung/Hynix were part of a price fixing cabal, Qualcomm's IP has been a boot on the neck of innovation, Western Digital has suffer
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by jkestner 3y ago
Sure - link in profile. If you can't tell, I'm trying to figure it out as I go.
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Lockitron! I remember chatting with your engineer about the WiFi radio we used in Twine. Good insight. Ah, chokepoint capitalism. The problem with every company becoming a tech company is that they all expect unsustainable tech company grow
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Oh, I realized I answered how we set it up, but maybe not what we do. It's just during regular library time, a parent volunteer presents/reviews a concept (the teachers tell us what they've been working on) and has an activit
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Helped my kid’s teacher win some Teacher of the Year award where a company gives away grants for PR, and as punishment, she charged me with using the money she won to set up a makerspace in the library. Funny thing is when I went to see wha
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by jkestner 3y ago
Citizen science! It's great when people realize they can answer their own questions with observation and data, and for activism because data is a powerful story. One friend of mine started https://publiclab.org to feed this
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Love it. I'm making a modular sensor "power tool" and (among other citizen scientist/journalist things) want to make it easy to log home air quality (long battery life, magnetic mount, API) to experiment with strategies.
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Yeah, Doctorow's discussion of that is what got me thinking about the snow job of ecosystems, and specifically how Apple scared/seduced many industries into this: https://blog.supermechanical.com/2023/10/
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Wonder what we've missed since we lost computers that turned on immediately to a prompt that you could code in, and the perceived system was "small", no piles of files that you weren't supposed to touch. It didn't f
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That's a Zoo, Not an Ecosystem(blog.supermechanical.com)
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More like A Bug's Life.
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> the current mode of "anything goes, you can be whatever you feel like and there's no judgement of any of your actions." That doesn't match reality. Do you have kids in public school? Of course they judge actions—esp

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