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

On 5/23/2025 9:21 AM, John Levine wrote:

According to Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net>:

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

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Yes, in the last two decades.   A quarter century ago, not so much.

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This is 'Murica, pretty much everything goes in the trash here...

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Nonsense.

 It's sort of true. In my town they pick up paper and containers and yard waste
at the curb but I have to take electronics down to the recycling dump. Most
people don't bother.
 

Theoretically, they pick up recycling (paper and plastic), but whether or not they bother is another matter. Usually the garbage trucks come by and empty both bins, so it might not make much difference.
Though, looking, it might depend on state as well.
Say, for example, if rules in Oklahoma might be different, say, from those in Texas. Or, maybe Arkansas might be different still, possibly even more different. Who knows...
There are likely more local variations as well, say:
Where I am living here, city people get on your case if you leave cars parked on the lawn in one's yard.
Where a relative lives (slightly further out), they seemingly don't care if cars are parked on the lawn.
But, at the same time, it is also a place where the neighbors across the fence (the same ones that sometimes burn a bunch of plastic and similar) also have a part of the yard full of chickens.
Across another fence, there is a much bigger yard where often there are horses roaming around. Occasionally, one may also see people riding horses and similar as well (sometimes along the side of the road and similar).
But, say, where I am living, no one has or rides horses.
There are some people living in Kansas (sorta extended family, but not direct relatives in my case) where their yard is basically an open trash dump. But, at the same time, they also had pigs and goats, albeit in separate areas (IOW, not in the parts of the yard that were basically a trash dump).
Though, at the time of the old weird PC, was living in Nevada, and (at least, ~ 25 ish years ago), old PC's/etc went into general purpose dumpsters.
This place was different, basically desert, except that there were basically dirt roads and mobile homes. It was a bit of a walk to reach a paved road. IIRC, garbage cans (and trash pickup) weren't really a thing there.
When I was living in Arizona, it was similar, except that it rained more so dirt roads didn't hold up nearly as well. It also rained enough that cactus and sparse grass would grow; unlike the part of Nevada, a short distance outside of Reno, where it was dry enough that the dirt was relatively plant free, except in places where one actively watered it.
Though, for contrast, in this part of OK, it is different in that it is mostly wood-frame houses, and the roads are paved.
There are other differences as well, say:
   Where I am at now, there is city water and sewer...
   Where relatives are at, they have city water, but use a septic tank.
   Where I was in Arizona, it was well water and a septic tank (1).
1: Though, initially (before a well pump was set up), it was a 1000 gallon water tank, and water needed to be brought in to refill it.
Though, at the place in Nevada, it was city water.
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