Re: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?

On 5/22/2025 5:41 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 22 May 2025 12:39:00 -0500, BGB wrote:
 

But, yeah, this was apparently something that my mom grabbed from a
dumpster sometime around 20-25 years ago, and its fate was that parents
later returned it to a dumpster.

 Don’t you have regulations, or at least discouragements, against e-waste
going to landfill?

This is 'Murica, pretty much everything goes in the trash here...
   Old computers, old electronics, batteries, ...
   Paper, plastic, used motor oil, ...
It all goes in the trash...
There is a bin for recyclables.
   Ideally, paper and plastic products can go in there.
At one point, the city took them away (so any recycling items would also just go in the normal trash), but I think something federal happened here, and the city needed to give people back their recycle cans. I think the garbage people still just empty both into the same garbage trucks though, so it is almost sorta moot...
Or, you can burn it, just locally you are required to have a burn-barrel or similar. Elsewhere, practice was just to make a big trash pile in ones' yard and then set it on fire, but around here, the fire department takes a negative view of this (and may come and get on ones' case for not having the fire contained in something like a 55 gallon drum or similar).
But, nearby, another relative has a closed in backyard, so can get away with just burning trash in an open bonfire. The neighbors across the fence also do similar, though the smoke isn't great sometimes as they burn a lot of plastic stuff as well (burning plastic and tires and similar makes some nasty smoke; as does burning used motor oil, etc; basically, bad smell and a whole lot of dark black smoke).
...
Or, at least, I am not sure how it is in other places.
Granted, might be better if more stuff got recycled or similar, but alas...