Yeah, people steal around here. It's the price I pay for easy access to the city. Honestly my clothes suck so no one will steal them, but I live with my family so I can't rely on that!:)
If I had to air dry everything, I too would economize on how much clothing I used.
Do you have any recommendations? When I poll my friends they have all had either service calls in the hundreds of dollars, funky odors, or the machines themselves were over $1000. Water savings is not a priority for me since I live in water-rich PA. I'm really satisfied with the performance of my old-style top-load, but then I'm not in the habit of putting my clothes in buckets of water to check performance!:)
With that said, I'm re-doing my upstairs laundry and so if I can use a stack-able front loader I can enlarge the adjacent bathroom or use the space for storage, so recommendations are welcome.
As an American with ample space, and even a disused clothesline, I can tell you it is trivial cost/convenience ratio. The dryer was cheap, and since my house has natural gas service, each load costs less than $0.20. In exchange, I don't have to go outside and I don't have to wait overnight for the clothes to dry. People won't steal stuff off of the line, and I don't have to plan laundry around the weather. For less than a quarter.
Even an electric dryer is going to use less than $0.75 per load - at 8.16 cents even less than that. It's nothing compared to the HVAC. When you buy an appliance in the US it has a big yellow sticker on it with the "estimated energy cost" on it. Washers and dryers have an almost laughably low number - like, less than $100 per year. Chances are you have an old desktop PC running somewhere that uses more power.
I was just in the UK and did not see a lot of laundry hanging outside, but I'll trust you because you live there. I did see some launderettes with clothes driers (had to use one), so someone in the UK values their dry clothing and time.
As for the cost, it is negligible. Under $0.20 per load of total energy (gas + electric). If I had an electric dryer it would probably be triple or quadruple that, so you might then have a point - though for me $0.75 is still a bargain not to hang up clothes to dry and when I was a bachelor I used the laundromat.
And 3 hours is just atrocious. I'd have to start laundry as soon as I got home from work and it would be dark by the time it was time to bring it out! There would be no way to do 2 loads. I can wash AND dry AND fold 2 loads in that time. I had the honor of using a UK washer/dryer unit recently and it took about 6 hours to sort-of wash and dry a load of clothes. It ran practically all night making a racket. I'm sure it was a shitty brand, but someone in the UK is actually buying this thing.
I'm not talking about grass stains and a little bit of dirt - I'm talking red clay mud from playing near the creek and whatnot. I don't know what brand you have, but if you are telling the truth I'd like to know the make and model as I need a new upstairs washer and would like to go stacked if I can find a front loader that doesn't suck. I presume you need to put it into some "extra water" mode or something? 45 minutes to rinse out mud in a front-loader sounds too good to be true.
They don't suck at all things. For some things, front loaders suck. As I said, try mud - the only thing that works is massive quantities of water, otherwise everything just turns orange. If you actually read the manuals for the front loader you can disable a lot of the water saving features and get a decent wash, but most people hit the "go" button. And it still takes twice as long or more. I understand that it's supposed to be "gentler" on clothes. While I don't understand this, I'll accept it as fact, but it doesn't matter since my kids clothes all are either outgrown or destroyed through play - not the wash. My clothes consist of jeans, t-shirts, and sweatshirts. My wife's business clothes and my button downs all go to the cleaners. So for me, the front loads suck. I get my wash done faster and cleaner without any weird programming tricks. There is no $250 circuit board to replace - just a simple $40 mechanical timer. There is no maintenance at all, no need for anti-fungal or anti-bacterial agents to reduce smells - no need to leave the door open. I can use any detergent that happens to be available and put as much or as little in as I like.
My only tradeoff is water usage, but I'm in the Philly area where water is cheap and plentiful.
It's getting harder and harder to find the real* top loaders. I had to pay a premium and modify the water level on mine. In my experience, the low-water front loading washers take too long and do not handle muddy kid soil loads very well. They also require more maintenance and less reliable and more complicated/expensive to repair.
* They still sell top-loaders, but they are really just front loaders turned 90 degrees. They still use a tiny bit of water and take ages to run a cycle. Even my old-fashioned top loader (Speed Queen) came from the factory with a laughably low water fill to meet EPA regulations. Fortunately this is fixed with a simple adjustment.
Washing machines that run shorter cycles and don't spin as fast and driers that run a gas heater don't use very much electricity - probably less electricity than European models. My top loader uses a lot more water, though.
What does use a lot of electricity is air conditioning. My house has two central air units, and while we don't use it much in favor of ceiling fans, we are not typical and the US has more severe weather than most of western Europe.
First problem: 3 hours??? Just for the wash? My "Speed Queen" old-fashioned top-load washes the clothes in around 30-40 minutes if I put it on the longest cycle. If you live somewhere that water needs to be conserved, then I guess I can understand... but holy crap that is a long time.
Second problem: hanging laundry. It takes a lot of space and you need a relatively low-humidity place to do the drying where people aren't going to steal your stuff. In fair weather, outside is an option if you don't live in an apartment. In crummy weather, you need space indoors. The basement is out because it is too humid and your clothes will smell like basement, so you need to hang your clothes all over the living space. Great.
Alternative: I can buy a small gas appliance that drys the clothes in under an hour. It costs less than a crappy smart phone. I'm so weird for buying this!
It's worse than that - I'm an NPR nerd and listened to an interview with the author. I think the interview doubled my potato knowledge and I had to google the chemical names.
It didn't ruin the film for me, nor did I stress over it. Suspension of belief is not a problem for me - I can watch movies about superheros, for God's sake. I only mentioned it because the whole potato thing was a band-aid, and that was a major plot point along with the windstorm.
The only reason we have the government-construction called "the corporation" is to benefit society. There is no guarantee to a job, true. But one big reason people tolerate the government handing out corporate charters is because they have been a job engine. If the jobs go away, the populace may not be so supportive of a system that simply results in raw capital accumulation.
Yeah, the Matrix made no sense at all, but it really broke new cinematographic ground. It also did a really good job melding the sci-fi and good ol' kung-fu genres.
Agreed that the potato thing is not a huge hole, but in an interview with the writer he was aware of the band-aid and couldn't think of a way to resolve it so he just ignored it. I was a little surprised, since the main character is a botanist and all he had to do was throw in a line about wanting to have potatoes that he could grow as an experiment or something. Maybe it would prematurely reveal the plot twist or something writer-y that I don't understand:)
The other band-aid is that the potatoes which would have been on the ship would have been treated with a chemical (chlorpropham or maleic hydrazide) to prevent them from budding.
In addition to being around longer, we only discuss the good ones. Here we are discussing five standout movies over nearly 50 years rather than the thousands of terrible movies released over the same period. Yeah, most movies today suck. The same was true in 1980, but we don't waste our time re-watching "Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land".
Well, it's a relief to me. I've been in the closet ever since that "Gaydar" app detected me. Now that it turns out that these apps don't really work, I can stop hiding.
In a marketing-driven organization, the software group does not necessarily have this power. If marketing agrees to accept the risks, you sometimes have no choice.
For my brother's birthday, I just put one of these into a tabletop arcade cabinet that I bought as a kit. It came out absolutely fantastic, and it emulates everything up to about the Playstation 1 (PSX) very well. Of course, since I picked an 8-way joystick and 6 buttons, not every game is a great experience. But Retropie is really a great piece of software. For entertainment center duty, there are lots of cases for the Pi (or you could just tuck it behind the TV) - and it has bluetooth so you don't really need the ports. If you want corded controllers, you could mount a usb hub somewhere convenient and inconspicuous.
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Yeah, people steal around here. It's the price I pay for easy access to the city. Honestly my clothes suck so no one will steal them, but I live with my family so I can't rely on that! :)
If I had to air dry everything, I too would economize on how much clothing I used.
Do you have any recommendations? When I poll my friends they have all had either service calls in the hundreds of dollars, funky odors, or the machines themselves were over $1000. Water savings is not a priority for me since I live in water-rich PA. I'm really satisfied with the performance of my old-style top-load, but then I'm not in the habit of putting my clothes in buckets of water to check performance! :)
With that said, I'm re-doing my upstairs laundry and so if I can use a stack-able front loader I can enlarge the adjacent bathroom or use the space for storage, so recommendations are welcome.
As an American with ample space, and even a disused clothesline, I can tell you it is trivial cost/convenience ratio. The dryer was cheap, and since my house has natural gas service, each load costs less than $0.20. In exchange, I don't have to go outside and I don't have to wait overnight for the clothes to dry. People won't steal stuff off of the line, and I don't have to plan laundry around the weather. For less than a quarter.
Even an electric dryer is going to use less than $0.75 per load - at 8.16 cents even less than that. It's nothing compared to the HVAC. When you buy an appliance in the US it has a big yellow sticker on it with the "estimated energy cost" on it. Washers and dryers have an almost laughably low number - like, less than $100 per year. Chances are you have an old desktop PC running somewhere that uses more power.
I was just in the UK and did not see a lot of laundry hanging outside, but I'll trust you because you live there. I did see some launderettes with clothes driers (had to use one), so someone in the UK values their dry clothing and time.
As for the cost, it is negligible. Under $0.20 per load of total energy (gas + electric). If I had an electric dryer it would probably be triple or quadruple that, so you might then have a point - though for me $0.75 is still a bargain not to hang up clothes to dry and when I was a bachelor I used the laundromat.
And 3 hours is just atrocious. I'd have to start laundry as soon as I got home from work and it would be dark by the time it was time to bring it out! There would be no way to do 2 loads. I can wash AND dry AND fold 2 loads in that time. I had the honor of using a UK washer/dryer unit recently and it took about 6 hours to sort-of wash and dry a load of clothes. It ran practically all night making a racket. I'm sure it was a shitty brand, but someone in the UK is actually buying this thing.
I'm not talking about grass stains and a little bit of dirt - I'm talking red clay mud from playing near the creek and whatnot. I don't know what brand you have, but if you are telling the truth I'd like to know the make and model as I need a new upstairs washer and would like to go stacked if I can find a front loader that doesn't suck. I presume you need to put it into some "extra water" mode or something? 45 minutes to rinse out mud in a front-loader sounds too good to be true.
They don't suck at all things. For some things, front loaders suck. As I said, try mud - the only thing that works is massive quantities of water, otherwise everything just turns orange. If you actually read the manuals for the front loader you can disable a lot of the water saving features and get a decent wash, but most people hit the "go" button. And it still takes twice as long or more. I understand that it's supposed to be "gentler" on clothes. While I don't understand this, I'll accept it as fact, but it doesn't matter since my kids clothes all are either outgrown or destroyed through play - not the wash. My clothes consist of jeans, t-shirts, and sweatshirts. My wife's business clothes and my button downs all go to the cleaners. So for me, the front loads suck. I get my wash done faster and cleaner without any weird programming tricks. There is no $250 circuit board to replace - just a simple $40 mechanical timer. There is no maintenance at all, no need for anti-fungal or anti-bacterial agents to reduce smells - no need to leave the door open. I can use any detergent that happens to be available and put as much or as little in as I like.
My only tradeoff is water usage, but I'm in the Philly area where water is cheap and plentiful.
It's getting harder and harder to find the real* top loaders. I had to pay a premium and modify the water level on mine. In my experience, the low-water front loading washers take too long and do not handle muddy kid soil loads very well. They also require more maintenance and less reliable and more complicated/expensive to repair.
* They still sell top-loaders, but they are really just front loaders turned 90 degrees. They still use a tiny bit of water and take ages to run a cycle. Even my old-fashioned top loader (Speed Queen) came from the factory with a laughably low water fill to meet EPA regulations. Fortunately this is fixed with a simple adjustment.
Washing machines that run shorter cycles and don't spin as fast and driers that run a gas heater don't use very much electricity - probably less electricity than European models. My top loader uses a lot more water, though.
What does use a lot of electricity is air conditioning. My house has two central air units, and while we don't use it much in favor of ceiling fans, we are not typical and the US has more severe weather than most of western Europe.
First problem: 3 hours??? Just for the wash? My "Speed Queen" old-fashioned top-load washes the clothes in around 30-40 minutes if I put it on the longest cycle. If you live somewhere that water needs to be conserved, then I guess I can understand... but holy crap that is a long time.
Second problem: hanging laundry. It takes a lot of space and you need a relatively low-humidity place to do the drying where people aren't going to steal your stuff. In fair weather, outside is an option if you don't live in an apartment. In crummy weather, you need space indoors. The basement is out because it is too humid and your clothes will smell like basement, so you need to hang your clothes all over the living space. Great.
Alternative: I can buy a small gas appliance that drys the clothes in under an hour. It costs less than a crappy smart phone. I'm so weird for buying this!
It's worse than that - I'm an NPR nerd and listened to an interview with the author. I think the interview doubled my potato knowledge and I had to google the chemical names.
It didn't ruin the film for me, nor did I stress over it. Suspension of belief is not a problem for me - I can watch movies about superheros, for God's sake. I only mentioned it because the whole potato thing was a band-aid, and that was a major plot point along with the windstorm.
I thought they were for the Thanksgiving dinner? I might be confusing the book with the movie.
The only reason we have the government-construction called "the corporation" is to benefit society. There is no guarantee to a job, true. But one big reason people tolerate the government handing out corporate charters is because they have been a job engine. If the jobs go away, the populace may not be so supportive of a system that simply results in raw capital accumulation.
Yeah, the Matrix made no sense at all, but it really broke new cinematographic ground. It also did a really good job melding the sci-fi and good ol' kung-fu genres.
Agreed that the potato thing is not a huge hole, but in an interview with the writer he was aware of the band-aid and couldn't think of a way to resolve it so he just ignored it. I was a little surprised, since the main character is a botanist and all he had to do was throw in a line about wanting to have potatoes that he could grow as an experiment or something. Maybe it would prematurely reveal the plot twist or something writer-y that I don't understand :)
Maybe I'm narrow minded. Maybe I'm shallow. Maybe I'm too judgy. But I just could not get past the fact that he wanted to have sex with a blue monkey.
Visually, the movie was very impressive. The bestiality, not so much.
The other band-aid is that the potatoes which would have been on the ship would have been treated with a chemical (chlorpropham or maleic hydrazide) to prevent them from budding.
In addition to being around longer, we only discuss the good ones. Here we are discussing five standout movies over nearly 50 years rather than the thousands of terrible movies released over the same period. Yeah, most movies today suck. The same was true in 1980, but we don't waste our time re-watching "Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land".
Well, it's a relief to me. I've been in the closet ever since that "Gaydar" app detected me. Now that it turns out that these apps don't really work, I can stop hiding.
You would probably appreciate "Avenue Q".
In a marketing-driven organization, the software group does not necessarily have this power. If marketing agrees to accept the risks, you sometimes have no choice.
For my brother's birthday, I just put one of these into a tabletop arcade cabinet that I bought as a kit. It came out absolutely fantastic, and it emulates everything up to about the Playstation 1 (PSX) very well. Of course, since I picked an 8-way joystick and 6 buttons, not every game is a great experience. But Retropie is really a great piece of software. For entertainment center duty, there are lots of cases for the Pi (or you could just tuck it behind the TV) - and it has bluetooth so you don't really need the ports. If you want corded controllers, you could mount a usb hub somewhere convenient and inconspicuous.
Not sure where I said otherwise.
Agreed that a GPU is an ASIC. I don't think they are "typical" in a few senses, but mainly the crowd around here go crazy over them.
By your broad definition, a GPU is also a "typical ASIC".