Keep in mind that this isn't really equivalent, cost-wise, to the crime of taking a car for a joyride -- airplane engines have rigorous maintenance schedules that require expensive overhauls, and aviation gasoline looks to be over double the price of "car" gasoline (and the MPG for that Cessna is probably half that of a decent car).

You vastly underestimate the number of people who should not pick this option but would (because doing otherwise would be admitting their incompetence / ignorance) -- thus handily continuing the problem.

Apple, policing use of an API on a privately-owned device for purposes of a consensual, non-violent activity that is only technically a crime in some legal jurisdictions? Sounds about right.

You sure about that? They were pitching cuts to air traffic control in the past:

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/national-fact-s...

They have not happened. There is actually a big push to modernize the air traffic control system

Yeah, this is 100% wish-cycling -- and honestly, the total amount of shavings you'd be throwing away after using this device heavily wouldn't even amount to a single small cardboard box.

I took out my comment calling it wish-cycling propaganda as a selling point, and decided to be less cynical. Anytime I see that kind of obvious play on the recycling heart string as a selling point just makes me throw up a little and roll my eyes all at the same time. The marketing department just goes overboard and nobody calls them on it

Recycle is more than just the municipal recycling stream, you can use that kind of shavings for some things. For example use glue to add fur to a cardboard creation.

That’s a good example of reuse, not recycling.

Recycling means making new cardboard or paper out of old material.

The common definition, “Reuse is the action or practice of using an item, whether for its original purpose or to fulfill a different function.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuse Reusing grocery bags as trash bags is the same item in a new context.

“Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling

Old tires to footwear is recycling even if you can see the old tread pattern you don’t have a tire at this point it’s a new item, or as I suggested cardboard crap waste to fir on a piece of artwork. The difference is you’re modifying the underlying item for use as part of something new.

It can feel like a grey area. Upcycled is often used when much of the original item remains, but shredded cardboard isn’t really cardboard as it lacks some of its fundamental properties arising from the 3D structure.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. That is an ordered list, you move to the next step only after you can done everything you can in the previous step.

If it is clean, can't you also compost it?

Or, you know, just bin the 1/2-ounce of shavings.

> and nobody calls them on it

This is so low on the long list of bad things in the world that it isn't worth the calories burned to type up a callout.

> I took out my comment calling it wish-cycling propaganda as a selling point, and decided to be less cynical.

Good call. I thought the comment as you wrote it was perfectly good & useful.

You've likely worn knit socks and T-shirts -- they're machine-knit. A lot of clothing is knit, not woven. Fabric does not have to use big and chunky threads to be knit; the loops can be quite a small gauge in size.

Ah - that makes sense.

I was thinking of hand-knit clothing, which (as you say) tends to be big enough and chunky enough that you can see the stitches.

TIL - thanks :)

You can take a magnifying glass to any old t-shirt you have around. Or these days, you can also just take a snapshot with your smartphone and zoom in.

Compare with what you see on jeans and dress shirts, polo shirts, dress pants, socks, etc. It's quite interesting.

First place I ever heard it was in the FPS game Homefront, where you're part of a "resistance movement fighting in the near-future against the military occupation of the Western United States by a reunified Korea".

This sort of thing has been known for a while -- it falls under the category of "mycorrhiza". Indeed, the Wikipedia entry on that refers to a whole article dedicated to orchids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchid_mycorrhiza

There was also the more relevant (defunct) Distributed Hardware Evolution Project from the University of Sussex, which was using genetic algorithms to evolve circuits: https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=Distributed_Hardwar...

If you increased the cost of the GPU by the upper end of your estimate ($200), that's a 10% increase of the new top end GPU (MSRP $2000 for a RTX 5090). That seems significant... until you realize that that 10% is what would prevent that $2000 GPU from turning into a ruined $0 brick when the connector inevitably melts. All of a sudden, that 10% increase seems like a bargain.