It's a hugely under innovative, insular and overpriced industry that has been begging for disruption for decades.
Now that there's critical mass in an aging population, companies like Apple that have the clout and cash to ignore the threats of patent infringement can finally apply some real technical innovation to the problem.
Phind was my go-to for getting more relevant and up-to-date information that could be found on the internet... but that stopped about 3+ months ago.
Many times the answers seemed to be getting more and more incomplete or incorrect as time went on (to a variety of questions over a period of months). Even worse it would say it couldn't find the answer, yet the answer was among the sites noted as reference!
I've ended up mostly resorting to Bing and gpt 4o. Frankly, I'm hesitant to waste time trying this new version.
Interesting look back at the beginning of automated credit card authorizations - back when paging through a weekly printed fraud list was the routine practice.
I'm a former/old-school professional programmer (now a retired CIO) and I still love automating my life with an assortment of tech (e.g. python, bash, c#, c++, jscript, etc). My knowledge of these tools isn't indepth... so being able to use AI to assist with generating the base code is a godsend.
My experience using chatgpt has been quite positive overall... sometimes it comes up with elegant solutions, sometimes its dog shit - but generally it's a useful starting point.
Most of them still have signs up that if you leave the towels in a particular place (like on the floor in the bathroom), they'll replace them.
Hell, a lot of hotels were doing that before the pandemic. I thought it was a really good thing. I certainly don't need my towels replaced every day; that's just pointless and wasteful.
Sorry I’m from the UK. Do you mean if you leave the sign for cleaning they don’t clean the room? Or if you leave no sign they don’t clean the room? Or they just never clean the room if you stay for more than one day?
Wait, then how do you dry yourself off the next day? Is washing towels really too much effort for them? Why would I accept worse service in a hotel than in my own home?!
Because it is bizarre. Most normal people hang their towel on a towel rack after using it, and it dries in time for the next time they take a shower.
Washing your towel after every use is incredibly wasteful, and unnecessary. If the towel is "dirty" after you've bathed and used it to dry yourself off, then you probably should do a better job cleaning yourself while bathing.
Only true if you’re washing solely your towel. If you wash your clothes regardless, you might as well throw in the towel too. Why’d I choose to use a used towel when it can be washed.
What I suspect is that people here have massive washer/dryer combos that slurp oodles of energy, and use them only infrequently?
We can only fit one day of the clothes for the entire family in a single wash, therefore washing happens every day.
That actually makes a lot of sense. Big family + small washer = daily washes. Sounds nice, actually.
But on the other hand: If you didn't have to wash everyone's towels every night, would you still have to do laundry daily?
Bigger washer/dryers are not necessarily more wasteful, for what it's worth... it really depends on their efficiency (both for water and dryer heat). Sometimes doing it in bulk all at once can save water/energy per item even if it uses more overall. And newer machines tend to be a lot more efficient than older ones, especially if they are load-sensing front-loaders. Anyway, that's not really the point.
It's just interesting that your laundry patterns are different than anyone I've ever known. Thanks for explaining, that's all :)
Since you wash your towels so excessively, I am going to assume you likely do the same with your clothes. If you cut down on the amount of stuff you "have to" put in your washer, you might be able to fit several days worth of clothes that actually need to be washed in the washer.
Sure, if you want to re-wear those sweat soaked shirts and pants you wore while it was 33 degrees celsius outside, be my guest. I’ll take clean ones.
Sure we could wash less if we really wanted to, but it just doesn’t signify. The washer uses like 40L of water over 30m of runtime and then it’s done. We hang the clothes (and towels) outside, and by evening everything is fresh.
The shower runs at about 10L a minute. I think you can see how the washing quickly becomes irrelevant, and the shower needs to be heated too, unlike the washer.
What do you mean? If you hang them on the towel rack, they dry (mostly) and can be reused. They do get gross after a while (a week or two) but not daily.
Do you really wash your towels after each use? Why? How?
A Roger's exec used to brag that they were able to release major changes faster than anyone because of their strategy which was "push it out... the customer's will find the remaining bugs". This was more than a decade ago, but it seems like it is still their culture.
Tip: use magnetic ports/cables on your USB devices. Moved to these after that happened to me years ago and love them - quick and easy to connect/disconnect, and less worry about tripping over the charge cord flinging the device across the room.
The only disadvantage is I haven't found any that support high amp/watt charging.
It's a hugely under innovative, insular and overpriced industry that has been begging for disruption for decades.
Now that there's critical mass in an aging population, companies like Apple that have the clout and cash to ignore the threats of patent infringement can finally apply some real technical innovation to the problem.