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History of Upcycle: A Sustainable Evolution

"Upcycle" is a term that emerged from the sustainability movement, representing a creative and eco-friendly approach to waste management. The concept of upcycling gained traction in the late 20th century as environmental concerns grew, and the need for sustainable practices became evident. Unlike recycling, which involves breaking down materials to create new products, upcycling focuses on transforming waste materials into higher-value items without compromising their integrity.

/əp/

adj. 1. Working, in order. 
"The down escalator is up."

Oppose down.

2. bring up: vt. To create a working version and start it.
"They brought up a down system."

3. come up vi. To become ready for production use.

/ən-wīnd-prə-tekt/

[MIT: from the name of a LISP operator]

n. A task you must remember to perform before you leave a place or finish a project.
"I have an unwind-protect to call my advisor."

/ən-wīnd t͟hə stak/

vi. 1. [techspeak] During the execution of a procedural language, one is said to 'unwind the stack' from a called procedure up to a caller when one discards the stack frame and any number of frames above it, popping back up to the level of the given caller. In C this is done with 'longjmp'/'setjmp', in LISP with 'throw/catch'.

See also smash the stack.

/un-swi-zəl/

v. See swizzle.

/yü-nikz-i-zəm/

n. A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multi-tasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory UNIX systems.

/yü-nikz wē-nē/

[ITS]

n. 1. A derogatory play on UNIX wizard, common among hackers who use UNIX by necessity but would prefer alternatives. The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of UNIX arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many UNIX programs.

/yü-nikz kən-spir-ə-sē/

[ITS]

/yü-nikz brān da-mij/

n. Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-UNIX system so that it will interoperate with UNIX systems. The hack may qualify as 'UNIX brain damage' if the program conforms to published standards and the UNIX program in question does not. UNIX brain damage happens because it is much easier for other (minority) systems to change their ways to match non-conforming behavior than it is to change all the hundreds of thousands of UNIX systems out there.

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[In the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multics"]