I can't find anything more than hearsay about this, but I've now encountered the idea several times that Tesla chose or developed an unusual alloy to mitigate oilcanning, a phenomenon where large, flat pieces of sheet metal tend to cup or bow.
For small, transactional dealings where the amount of work is easy to predict, there may just be a fixed fee for that.
For more open-ended work, it is often billed by the hour (time and expense). If the work is non-trivial, they may ask for a retainer, which is a down payment against future hourly work and expenses incurred by the firm.
Another common billing model, called contingency, is generally reserved for cases where the firm is optimistic they will be able to receive a significant monetary judgment or settlement, which they will take part of for their time and effort.
True. A better consideration is the Nissan Rogue at ~3500 lbs. That's a 1000 lb. difference, which is more. But the GP didn't bother to mention the road-wear differences between, for example, the Ford Edge and Ford Escape, which also have a 1000 lb. difference between them. So it sounds disingenuous to single out EVs here.
I don't think the typical Tesla Model Y buyer is likely cross-shopping against a Rogue.
Unless they're dead-set on an EV, they're much more likely cross-shopping the Model Y ($48K base MSRP) against a luxury ($57K base, $62K base, $67K base) SUV than an economy ($27K base MSRP) SUV. If they are dead-set on an EV, they might cross-shop against the Ariya ($43K base, but also 4323 lbs).
US voltage is 120 V (240 V phase to phase), not 110 V. And while 115 V is within service tolerances specified by ANSI C84.1 (114 V to 126 V), that's not the nominal value.
It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine. We've been standardized on 240/120 since 1967, and still many people insist on saying 110 and 220. It hasn't been 110V since well before 1967, either -- it was increasing over time before they locked it at 120.
Its been 120VAC in the vast majority of the US since quite some time like the 1940's - 1960's.'
A minority are still 115-120VAC but very few still at 110VAC or even 110VDC.
But 110V line voltage is still too common of a misconception still lingering overseas.
This can be seen in some power transformers which are built overseas with multiple primary windings intended for international use. Often these will step-up or step-down the incoming line voltage to the working level correctly using the 240V primary when 230-240V is actually powering the transformer through that winding. But when used in the USA with the 110V primary, the transformer powers the working circuit with almost 10 percent higher voltage than the engineers thought they were going to get.
Thanks, I'm in canada and I know we're 120, I was wondering if there was some reason the US was different and I'd just never heard about it. Iirc Japan, at least part of it, may actually be 110.
It's really annoying as Japan has lots of wonderful vintage secondhand synthesizers for sale, but being domestic market models they often have non-switching power supplies that require 100 V.
Speaking of Japan and frequency differences, one funny indirect consequence of the power differences is the video game Super Smash Bros Melee having separate NTSC and PAL versions, one at 60Hz and another at 50Hz, and consequently running at 60fps or 50fps (unless you override this at start). For good players, 50fps changed the game a lot, so they'd always use NTSC or override to 60. But PAL Melee also had other gameplay changes.
A lot of games on the Mega Drive / Genesis didn't properly adjust their speed for PAL/NTSC, for example Sonic 1. They'd just run slower/faster according to VDP clock.
All video games and consoles had separate NTSC and PAL versions until relatively recently. PAL, which is 50Hz was/is used in Europe most of the world except a handful of countries including USA and Japan.
Japan standardized on NTSC/60Hz well before the video game era, for both the 50Hz and 60Hz mains power regions. The frequency is decoupled from mains power frequency even though it was historically based on American 60Hz power.
This is partially done to compensate for terrible wiring. Lots of people are fond of using small wires and going long distances leading to a lot of voltage drop. They often send 125v or so from the transformer which is 123-124 at the panel, 120 v or so at the receptacle, and >100v after someone decides to run something on a few hundred feet of #18 extension cord.
It's about looking at supply vs demand. Electrical devices are often labeled by the minimum voltage they require to operate. 110 V is commonly used because the device can operate reliably on a 120 V distribution system.
Power supplies are rated for 100V because that's the voltage in Japan. Though the tolerance would probably be useful for running a really long US extension cord.
My old computer started burning in some internal cabling about 30 years ago. Turns out our power wasn't 230 V when the power company came and set up a machine to make a graph. Some times of the day it could be much lower and that made my ancient atari converted to a towerbox to burn the cable to the harddrive on booting.
Laptops and other electronics are often the same between North America and europe, just with a different plug, thus the wide tolerance. For anything with a motor or coil this probably won't work
I can't say I agree. The answer to debilitating addiction isn't to make someone feel even worse about it (to the extent they don't already feel terrible). It's to provide meaningful support to get out of addiction and back to the life the person wishes they could have. Shame is fatal to dignity and self-acceptance. It has no place in public health.
Of course it hasn't reduced addiction. The quote from TFA explains it best: "If you take away the criminal-justice system as a pathway that gets people into treatment, you need to think about what is going to replace it."
That doesn't mean that decriminalization is bad, it means you can't ignore public health. Seems uniquely American to assume that just leaving addicted people alone without appropriate healthcare options is going to reduce addiction.
It also depends heavily on how you define "need". Calculus changed the way I view many, many concepts and phenomena. I think we present things like calculus as dryly as possible, and only to those blessed few who we perceive as able to understand it, and in doing so, we deprive so many people of a useful new way of considering problems. Whether it ends up being critical to their chosen career seems like a really narrow and poor criterion.
> I think we present things like calculus as dryly as possible
A lot of this is because the hiring pipeline has dried up. I went to a top hs here in the Bay Area and had teachers who were very knowledgeable and invested in STEM education.
Because of extremely low salaries when factoring in CoL, a replacement pipeline hasn't formed. I had 4-5 of my classmates in HS end up majoring in STEM and minoring in Education at the big 3 UCs, but all of them decided to become Data Analysts or SWEs instead because they would be provided a living wage without having to go get a masters for an additional $30-40k and/or a formal teaching credential for an additonal $12-15k. They were looking at a $150k bill just to earn $70-80k starting AT BEST in Silicon Valley.
I have friends who are/were teachers. I can't imagine why anyone would subject themselves to that. Low pay, spoiled out of control children, their evn worse parents, active shooter drills/real active shooters, fucking TikTok.
I wouldn't do that job if it paid double what I make now.
I've seen antisocial behavior rise in both kids from well off backgrounds as well as from kids from less well off backgrounds. In both cases, the parents aren't an active participant in their kid's lives.
The kids (both rich and poor) with present parents always ended up well established and this was irrespective of race.
The only benefit that money had was it could open some doors if the kid f**ed up.
One of my acquaintance's HS going kid has an active drug problem and has ended up in in the drunk tank a couple times, but because my acquaintance is a white collar professional who can afford to live in a well off neighborhood, they can afford the legal fees. If this was some black kid in West Oakland or a Latino kid in East San Jose or a Vietnamese kid in Newark, they would have ended up in Jail/Juvie, lost critical learning time, and have no real options or safety net to fall on.
I know that older people complaining about younger people is literally ancient, but I can't help but feel that cell phones + social media is doing some real damage. It hurts adults, I can't imagine experiencing it with a developing mind.
It's a shame that part-of-speech analysis tools aren't more widely available or widely used. That could at least reduce the damage done on "flat" -> "apartment", even when only considering entire words.
Here's some anecdata that is probably the most coherent read I can find on the topic of Cybertruck oilcanning: http://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2023/08/dude-wheres-my-cybe...
Seems the alloy is probably less rust resistant than more common alloys, and also can't take a clearcoat without losing some valuable properties? More hearsay: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/197sivs/tesla_...