How inauthentic. If you don't remember someone's name, just say so. Ask them again and try harder next time. If I see you with glasses on, and your eyeballs looking above my head I'm going to walk away from you.

That works the first 10 times or so I meet someone, but it starts getting awkward after that. (Wish I was exaggerating)

Practical advice from a non-social person that forgets names - make notes, even 15 seconds after you meet the person if possible. The name, along with a quick note about where you met them, a feature that stuck out about them, a conversation you had with them, etc. Another thing that helps if you are not great at socializing on the fly (like me), is having pre-planned conversation pieces for people you might meet at a venue, or on the elevator at work. This will help add to the notes. Dittys sometimes work - like if the person's name is Brian and they have long hair - "Long haired Brian". Sounds goofy, but it really does work. Then every time you see that person, you call them by their name to help make it stick.

And if all fails, a "What up DUDE!" always works well too.

Now if you have a brain issue or something, I understand. But as a normal, healthy person, if we aren't making even the smallest effort to remember names, even the non-important ones, then we are more than likely the problem hah!

This is a problem you have to solve yourself, without relying on making facial scanning and profiling tech widespread.

The simple solution is that you live with the small amount of awkwardness this generates.

Front loaders also get moldy and stink because they have to be sealed up so tightly. If you're not there to immediately pull out the clothes after the cycle, you're screwed. And in a small laundry room there isn't always room to let the door stay open to dry out the inside.

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.

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.

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.

Its just an excuse people use to keep using thier beloved shiny brand.

We did it before. Thanks to Firefox we broke the IE6 monopoly even on Windows.

How did that happen, anyway? Tabs? What's the next killer feature after tabs? Maybe sync?

Haven't all the major browsers had sync for ages? I've been using Firefox's built-in sync for so long I don't even remember what it was like without it.

Adblock, I would have thought. And Google can't compete in this space, by their very nature.

This is the message that Firefox needs to push: Hate ads? Use Firefox.

Considering that Firefox by itself doesn't block anything without extensions, that seemingly less than 10% of users use extensions and that tgere5are already quite a few snappier browsers that block ads by default...

Ooh, I think you're right. Even better if it can bypass more annoyances, cookie popups, captchas and (if legal) paywalls. Maybe it should have Libredirect built in. It could be a user agent, instead of a site owner agent.

The footprint is a cost problem once. They don't need power, computers, or technicians to come out and maintain the equipment constantly.

>The footprint is a cost problem once.

Land can approximately be converted to a recurring cost via rents.

The advantages aren't "theoretical." It's 100% proven that they're safer, cheaper over the long term, and flow more traffic than a red light.

Then you don't need to automate it, and you can just manually solve the captcha and log in.

Excuse me? Why does Tesla need to be involved at all? Take the title to the DMV and transfer it.

Yeah I don't feel bad for Microsoft, but I don't feel bad for people who keep paying them for it either. This has been going on forever now. Nothing will happen until people start leaving. I don't honestly understand why so much shit is on GitHub when there are so many alternatives, anyways. It's fucking git! Can't people do or try anything different, ever?

People are on GitHub because it's the cool thing to do, and there is no concept of anything else that could matter.