Goonbaggins

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Eulogy for a Gambler(medium.com)
1 points by Goonbaggins 2y ago|0 comments
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by Goonbaggins 2y ago
Yep, I've worked in recycling for 6 years and am well aware that there's a lot of broken parts. My point was that if a PET bottle goes into a single stream system, the recycling industry is pretty good at capturing it, baling it,
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by Goonbaggins 2y ago
Based on the single stream comment, I'm going to assume you're describing an experience in North America, and your assumptions are pretty off base for PET bottles. Figure 1 in the linked paper gives the raw numbers for where PET b
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by Goonbaggins 2y ago
Grafana miiiight be what you're looking for if that type of data is something you already have stored elsewhere.
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by Goonbaggins 2y ago
Louisiana was pretty smothered by clouds during eclipse time yesterday which likely had an impact.
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by Goonbaggins 2y ago
I work on a similar type of application (AI connected to a robot arm that sorts recycling). This looks pretty efficient for a few reasons. - Consistent lighting is crucial for the most efficient AI. Full overhead enclosure makes this way ea
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by Goonbaggins 5y ago
Recycling facilities everywhere use tech like this (near infrared) at an industrial scale [0], and sorting robots that use AI is a rapidly growing industry [1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0OZ7Mlmkvk [1] https:&#x
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by Goonbaggins 7y ago
There's a few reasons I wouldn't feel comfortable calling anything made of recycled plastic food safe, but my biggest is from the huge variety of additives that go into products. These don't necessarily play nice with the rem
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by Goonbaggins 7y ago
That's a good question. Sadly there's definitely microplastics involved. Research into microplastic effects is still in very early stages. When you're creating any sort of dust (wood, metal, plastic, etch) particles around hu
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by Goonbaggins 7y ago
Sounds like you might be excited to check out the new academy we launched. There's a ton of new unlisted videos there too :) I'd take a look at the Spaces chapter. [0] Collection is fairly amorphous at the moment, but that means t
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by Goonbaggins 7y ago
I spent a solid chunk of the last year contributing to this project and would be happy to answer any questions. I commonly see Hacker News discussions on how plastic recycling is a waste of time/energy. The EPA's models feel other
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Recycling robots have spread across North America(resource-recycling.com)
1 points by Goonbaggins 7y ago|0 comments
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by Goonbaggins 12y ago
Interesting, AdBlockPlus in OSX Firefox was blocking them.
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by Goonbaggins 12y ago
The article references a tweet and then fails to quote it or even link to it. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/550297471289552898
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by Goonbaggins 12y ago
Looks great for a static screen. How does it handle scrolling?
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NPR's Planet Money Makes a T-shirt(apps.npr.org)
8 points by Goonbaggins 13y ago|2 comments
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Swype Cofounder launches new keyboard for tablets - Dryft(dryft.com)
7 points by Goonbaggins 13y ago|0 comments
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Swimming with Spacemen: training for spacewalks at NASA’s giant pool(arstechnica.com)
6 points by Goonbaggins 14y ago|0 comments
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by Goonbaggins 16y ago
While this is really neat, the 595s also feature some nicer padding on the headband. Probably not enough for the price difference, but I just wanted to note that the piece of foam is not the only difference between the two.
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Ocelot: The story of a torrent tracker
119 points by Goonbaggins 16y ago|7 comments
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by Goonbaggins 16y ago
From your description in another comment, it seems like you've used 'status feed' when the more appropriate term is 'news feed.' As far as I can tell you're not saying that the companies can post public statuses; you're saying they show up