[HN Gopher] I Made a Rubbish Clock
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I Made a Rubbish Clock
Author : jgrahamc
Score : 110 points
Date : 2024-09-28 07:36 UTC (15 hours ago)
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| benrutter wrote:
| This is cool
|
| Semi related- did I read this righr that Portugal has a bin
| collection every day bar Sunday? (that sounds like _a lot_! I 'm
| from the UK and where I live there's one a week)
| zzbn00 wrote:
| I think daily bin collection was normal in London until the mid
| 1990s or so. Also post was delivered twice a day and picked up
| from post boxes at least three times a day!
| fodmap wrote:
| There's also daily bin collection in Spain
| https://www.expatica.com/es/living/household/recycling-in-sp...
| extraduder_ire wrote:
| The last time I was there this surprised me, until I realized
| you really don't want your bins hanging out in that heat for
| more than a day. Sometimes it gets pretty bad even during the
| same day.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| The iberians probably have cheap enough labour that they
| needn't bother, but a high-capital low-labour sol'n is to
| store rubbish deep enough* that even summer daytime
| temperatures don't hit their surface peaks: eg
| https://www.molok.com/benefits-and-principles/
|
| * Fourier apparently worked this problem in relation to
| wine storage; see also https://topex.ucsd.edu/geodynamics/H
| W3_2010_presentations/C_...
| jgrahamc wrote:
| It depends where you live, but in general, yes, bin collection
| happens every night except Sunday night. Here's the information
| for Lisbon:
| https://informacoeseservicos.lisboa.pt/servicos/dias-do-lixo
| vasco wrote:
| It really heavily depends where you live, in my hometown for
| example it's every single day at most, but it can be less
| depending on their assessed need. In my childhood street it's
| every day. On the other hand you don't have a personal or
| building bin, you only have street bins that everyone takes
| their trash to. https://fagar.pt/residuos
| lol768 wrote:
| > where I live there's one a week
|
| You're lucky you have this! So many councils have moved to
| every-three-weeks for general refuse, now. Council tax hasn't
| gone down to compensate, mind you. Not even the recycling is
| weekly.
| the_mitsuhiko wrote:
| I'm not sure what the bin collection schedule in Vienna is but
| what's really nice here is that I just don't have to think
| about it. There is a garbage room in our building that the
| recycling agency has a key to and they get the bins themselves.
| I would guess they come twice a week to our building but the
| garbage truck is in the street probably every day. Big
| difference to my experience in London.
| stevekemp wrote:
| Similar here in Helsinki, there are a bunch of bins inside a
| communically accessible room - paper, glass, metal, mixed,
| plastic, and biological rubbish.
|
| There's some fancy schedule for when the various bins are
| emptied, but not something I think about. It seems to work
| out okay.
|
| Compared to Edinburgh where initially it was weekly, then
| fortnightly, and now collections occur every three weeks from
| what I remember. Recycling wasn't even an option unless you
| counted the bottle-banks at the local Tesco.
| amluto wrote:
| Taiwan does this, too.
|
| I think NYC should consider daily collection. They have a huge
| curbside trash problem, and I suspect that there is so much
| trash accumulation by the time the truck comes by that a lot of
| labor is used putting the bags in the truck. Collecting 7x as
| often seems like it would not require anywhere near 7x the cost
| or labor, and the city would be a lot more pleasant with more
| frequent collection.
| sampullman wrote:
| It depends where you are, in my city it's 5x/week, but twice
| per day. They don't pick up bins though, you have to go down
| and throw your bags into the truck.
| nvader wrote:
| I really enjoy seeing learning little maker projects like this on
| HN. The inside scoop on SVG path is a bonus, and it's going into
| my toolkit for a future day.
| petepete wrote:
| My bin schedule is slightly complicated by it cycling between
| different recycling bins every 3 weeks. I think I'd need a bigger
| clock.
|
| Currently I have 3 recurring events in my calendar that remind me
| the night before.
| MrJohz wrote:
| You could possibly fix this mechanically using three 7-day
| clocks (and wheels) and a mechanism that switches which one is
| being powered whenever a wheel reaches a certain point. But at
| that point I might be more tempted to reach for a
| microcontroller of some description!
| the_mitsuhiko wrote:
| You can also just attach a 3:1 gear.
| Freak_NL wrote:
| I live right at a street corner, so even if I were to forget
| that tomorrow is bin-day, I can hear neighbours rolling theirs
| out in any case, and the lid colour tells me which bin it is. I
| rarely forget though; I just put up the paper year calendar for
| bin days we get end of December near the door.
| moepstar wrote:
| Interesting - I'd have thought that most of the world
| would've moved to digital by now.
|
| Here in Germany, you can get the whole year as .ics to import
| into your calendar, works for most cities... usually, there
| are different schedules per street/neighborhood, so that's
| really convenient!
| borski wrote:
| That's true for a lot of cities. I have this in Cupertino,
| and used to have it in Mountain View.
|
| Most people just don't seem to check their website.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| A debugger I used to use had a `phase of the moon` command,
| presumably so you could track if your difficult-to-repro bug had
| any correlation.
|
| Should I ever be tempted to make an analogue equivalent, it was
| worth learning that
| https://www.youngtownco.com/en/product-655753/Moon-Phase-Clo...
| is a thing.
| Luc wrote:
| > A debugger I used to use had a `phase of the moon` command
|
| Which debugger would that be, or am I not getting the joke?
| cbarrick wrote:
| `Phase of the moon` has an entry in the Jargon File, meaning
| "reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has
| been able to determine."
|
| It is a reference to a real bug from long ago.
|
| I would not be surprised if this was included as an Easter
| egg in a debugger, as a reference to this legend.
|
| http://catb.org/jargon/html/P/phase-of-the-moon.html
| gavinsyancey wrote:
| The MULTI debugger includes an optional phase-of-the-moon
| display, in the dead space in the lower right between the
| horizontal and vertical scrollbars in windows that have both
| :)
| nlawalker wrote:
| Related:
|
| "The code worked differently when the moon was full"
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39452193
|
| "You are lucky, full moon tonight"
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40472226
| dezgeg wrote:
| I found this part funny:
|
| > Also, I really didn't want yet another thing with [...] code to
| debug (there comes a time in every programmer's life when they
| can't face debugging yet another thing that should be simple and
| just work)
|
| ... when two paragraphs later comes the code to generate a SVG :)
| jgrahamc wrote:
| Yes! I am a programmer, of course, but my graphic design skills
| are non-existent so my only choice was to write some code. But,
| thank goodness, that code only has to run once and doesn't have
| to interact with WiFi, an API, or anything else!
| the_mitsuhiko wrote:
| As I'm getting older (and have seen more of my "smart"
| solutions turn into terrible maintenance nightmares) I'm now
| fully on board with that general idea. The simple things just
| keep working and it's great.
| stavros wrote:
| I'm with you, the less complexity the better. I hate having
| to maintain ten thousand things around the house.
| rammer wrote:
| Why?
|
| Doesn't your council give a fridge magnet which has the dates in
| the calendar printed clearly?
|
| Why overcomplicate?
| ramon156 wrote:
| Because it's fun (:
| ryukoposting wrote:
| Huh, I wish American municipalities did this. Maybe some of
| them do, but certainly nowhere I've ever lived.
| Zircom wrote:
| Most American towns have one pickup day for both recycling
| and trash, and only one type of recycling anyways. Kind of
| unnecessary to print hundreds of thousands just to mark
| Tuesday or Friday every week on them.
| andai wrote:
| I had a neighbor with Alzheimers who was often confused about
| whether it was morning or evening (she only had analog, 12-hour
| clocks). She seemed to have two days per day, and I'd often hear
| her 6am alarm go off at 6pm.
|
| I made a simple web app for her that showed the time along with
| the bold text MORNING, AFTERNOON, EVENING etc. I set this up on
| her tablet by the wall, but every time I visited it had been
| switched off (all the way), and she had no memory of it being set
| up. (Presumably her bedtime routine involved "turning off the
| computer"...)
|
| So I just bought her an analog Alzheimer's clock (a 24 hour clock
| with some colors and pictures to indicate the time of day --
| quite similar to OP's design actually). She took readily to that
| one.
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