In my experience with front-loaders, all of these are non-problems.

But my understanding is that top-loaders are always inefficient: they have to use a lot more water, because the clothes have to be submerged, and thus they also have to use a lot more energy to heat it.

Mold problems are more or less likely depending on where you live. Less likely in Arizona. More likely in Florida.

If you wash with cold cycle, efficiency is just a matter of water volume…and most detergents work well in cold water.

They use more water because they do a much better job at cleaning than side-loaders, especially the new "high efficiency" ones that seem to barely work. Just look at all the complaints online.

and thus they also have to use a lot more energy to heat it.

Most if not all top-loaders don't heat the water.

>> and thus they also have to use a lot more energy to heat it.

> Most if not all top-loaders don't heat the water.

That's a bit pedantic, since on warm and hot cycles the water-heater will use energy to heat the water.

Typo: prescribed burns.

One of the most ridiculous pairs of approximate homophones in the English language.

Proscribed = forbidden. Prescribed = recommended/required.

Whoops, thanks.

Watch this happening! https://bytebybyte.dev/

I skipped macOS 26 (except on my work laptop, where it’s crap), but I don’t think iOS 26 is significantly worse overall than iOS 18.

Same here. And I was seriously impressed with how much noise cancelling the v4 can do. I will be seriously impressed again if the v5 is as much better as they claim.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_bEtjWYWhYxSo0o_...

The price is so reasonable, I think the risk is that you’re paying mainly with your data?

Perhaps not if the one framework we ended up with was a good one …

I mean, there's certainly silly money involved, but there's surely no credible doubt that AI is already really good at many valuable tasks.

So if there's a crash, doesn't that just leave us with a bunch of useful AI hardware whose costs have been written off? I wouldn't have thought that much changes what social impacts AI is going to have.

https://printervention.app (also co-written by Claude) may be useful in similar cases.