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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • If you compare what it used to take to ship a package and the kind of selection that a local store might have, it’s pretty great.

    Also, a lot of that is automated to take a bunch of the drudge work out. Twenty years back, I remember that a guy I worked with at a research lab was working on some of the in-production-back-then automated-sorting-and-aligning-of-boxes-on-conveyor-belt stuff, which was done in a pretty clever way, by just activating and deactivating rollers on a conveyor belt, no robotic hands or anything mechanically-fancy needed.

    googles

    Not the system in question, but an example of another:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqLYhhV7u7Y