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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

ok i work in a kind of tangential industry and can kind of answer this probably

in general the higher the voltage the smaller the current, which you're generally happy about because your 1) electrical losses and 2) cable/wire diameter are both proportional to current

the tradeoffs being 1) it gets harder and more important to isolate the circuit (e.g. your wire insulation that prevents the 12V bus from shorting out to the vehicle chassis now needs to be thicker) and 2) all the stuff people make for cars (i dunno, windshield wiper motors, radiator fans, whatever) is currently for 12V

in general this move probably makes sense, provided they're able to figure out their supply chains, and if tesla can position themselves as being like the first company to figure out a bunch of these 48V components at scale that's probably going to be really good for them. they did a kind of similar thing with the charging infrastructure if i understand currently, like now the tesla charging cable is the de facto north american standard

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (30 children)

"When you've got a product with a lot of new technology or any brand new vehicle program, especially one that is as different and advanced as the Cybertruck, you will have problems proportionate to how many new things you're trying to solve at scale," he added.

does it have new technology? i thought it was just like, shockingly ugly?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

sure, but i guess what i mean is like, that's why the meaning of the idiom is clear to me even having not tested or watched someone test what the actual effect of firing a gun into a barrel full of fish would be. if you were ever in a conversation, prior to watching that episode, wherein someone used the idiom to describe a task, and you were like "oh, you mean that'll be easy, because the shockwave from a gun shot would kill all of the fish in a barrel at the same time", before you watched the mythbusters episode, i guess you're a lot smarter than me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i always thought the point was that even if you miss, you've now shot a hole through the barrel and the water will drain out, killing the fish anyways

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

ok it is absolutely hilarious that the apology letter calls the game 'The Lord of Ring: Gollum'

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

how is this a guide?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

jordan peterson cooking up a whole new type of idiot. can't wait to see the first cohort of freethinkers launch a series of startups based on stuff like reselling the breadsticks from olive garden

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

article says he was fired in 2016 for being a member of a terrorist organization, but like, why wasn't that grounds to revoke his medical license?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's crazy that trump has basically trained us all to be able to understand him because he's basically incoherent. in speeches he alternates between pre-written sections that he is clearly struggling to read, and completely thoughtless ad-libs like "many people are saying this" which he will say about literally anything. and in more spontaneous formats he's just all over the fucking place, he just leaves a trail of sentence fragments behind him until he's decided he's talked for an appropriate amount of time. and his voice, i mean, he sounds like mark hamill's joker after dental anesthesia. they should play his speeches on speakers mounted to the underside of cargo ships to repel whales

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

antoine fuqua is kind of interesting because training day is so much better than all his other movies. i can't think of another director that has a single movie that's head and shoulders above the rest of their oeuvre. he's like the directorial version of the Super Mario 64 Speedrun Cosmic Ray

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just to clarify, the study provides numbers, it's just the article that does not

45% of participants were excluded for a score >= 6 on the DAST-10 drug abuse screening test, 13% were excluded for score >= 20 on the AUDIT alcohol use disorders identification test, and 26% were excluded for psychiatric symptoms according to the colorado symptom index

in total 229 of 732 participants passed all screening criteria (additional criteria: age 19 to 65, homeless for less than 2 years, canadian citizen or permanent dresident)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

found this page: https://worldcoingallery.com/countries/circ_sets/index.htm

I enjoyed Algeria, Ethiopia and Egypt

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