#Standardization

[netscapenavigator-official]

It’s actually still crazy to me that Tesla successfully managed to get J3400 & NACS to become the North American EV Charging standard by dangling access to the Supercharger Network over companies’ heads.

Like we HAD a universal, standardized plug that every automaker (except Tesla) was using. All cars were already being made with this plug, and all was great.

And then it wasn’t.

Because instead of Tesla (the one and ONLY company that didn’t use J1772 & CCS1) switching to the universal standard… literally every other automaker (and the countless EV models they produce) have decided to slowly, haphazardly, and somewhat prematurely, one-by-one switch their cars over to J3400 & NACS.

Now we’re in a messy situation where some cars have NACS, some don’t. Some are planned to have it, some have no word. Some automakers provide free adapters, some don’t. Oh… and there are like ZERO non-Tesla NACS stations compared to the number of CCS1 stations… so… not only are there growing pains out the gate… but they’re gonna stick around until the notoriously slow-to-upgrade charging networks of North America decide to start adding/replacing cables en masse.

And all this… when we could’ve just had Tesla switch to J1772 & CCS1. Only their four existing cars would’ve had to have come with it, and the charging network they have 100% control over could’ve switched just as fast.

One car brand.

Four models.

One charging network.

But no. We get the shit end of the stick because people won’t stop giving Elon Musk their money.

Tesla could’ve done it, too. They adopted CCS2 in Europe after the standard was mandated. But they refused to do so in the U.S. for money reasons. Now, we’re stuck with a cable, which has smaller DC pins, potentially meaning it’s inferior and less future proofed… yay…

[six-costume-refs]

Why do North American actors have to have the costume but not the same hairstyle?

Well, the same costume design can be fit to different actors’ bodies without any design change. Actors’ natural hair will always have a lot more variance. The same hairstyles can’t be altered to different hair as easily, the hair colors that are flattering or look natural on one person won’t look the same way on another, etc etc. It just introduces far more questions about what should/shouldn’t be standardized than costumes do. And actors have broad diversity in hair color/texture/type, which stands to be erased by standardizing hairstyles/wig design in a way that body diversity can’t be erased by costumes.

Differences in costumes are also going to be more noticeable than differences in wigs/hair design, on average. Think about Laura Dawn Pyatt vs Ellie Jane Grant’s Boleyn costume - that difference is noticeable even to someone who has only ever seen marketing for the show. Meanwhile on Broadway Hailee Kaleem Wright and Kristina Leopold have very different wig designs for Aragon, but that’s not going to be noticeable to the average audience member (+ each design feels natural and flattering on them)

Ultimately it just comes to the core intent of that costume rule: not wanting understudies to be treated as “lesser than” any of the principals. Historically, shows haven't always treated their understudies equally, sometimes giving them noticeably significantly lower quality costumes or not even giving them costumes of their own (instead having them share with principals or other understudies). The whole intent of that rule is to require that shows can’t take those shortcuts and instead treat their understudies fairly. In Six’s alt costume system, the alts do get very cool costumes so fair treatment isn’t really the concern, but it’s still a general rule that has to be fairly applied equally across all Broadway shows.

But ultimately that concept of fair treatment doesn’t really apply to wig design. Historically (and even now) many shows have standardized wigs, in style/color/texture. But most of the time that intent hasn’t been about fairness; it’s been about making the differences in appearance between principal and understudy as subtle as possible so that the audience won’t realize an understudy is performing. As Broadway is learning to embrace both their understudies + more diversity in race/ethnicity/appearance more broadly, there’s less focus on making understudies conform to a standardized look (and wigs as a big part of this). Hamilton is really a gold standard example of this: they’ve embraced giving all their principals and understudies wigs that generally match their natural color/texture and even some individualized styles and design. North American Six is also slowly learning to do this, with the newer Cleves and Parr looks and Leandra Ellis-Gaston’s Boleyn braids. Ultimately most of these shows are still following some general guidelines on shape/style for different roles, but ultimately there’s still focus being put on giving each actor a wig that’s individually suited to them even within those guidelines.

Note: all of this is AEA rules (US) and rule specifics only apply to certain tiers of productions.

[sandimexicola]

Standardized education

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[whats-in-a-sentence]

"Standardizing the mind is as futile as standardizing electricity," Judge Goff declared, warning that the "votaries of science or pseudo-science" could too easily make prejudiced testimony of the tests.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[adafruit]

Yes! Stemma QT boards work with the Arduino UNO R4! 🎉🔌🛠️📡💡🌐

we just got our UNO R4 WiFi, featuring the Renesas RA4M1 series of chips https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/05/25/eye-on-npi-renesas-ra4m1-microcontroller-series-eyeonnpi-digikey-renesasglobal-digikey-adafruit/ an ESP32 wifi co-processor, an adorable LED grid, and a JST SH 4-pin connector…a.k.a a Qwiic port! Yay it is so great to see this connector becoming standardized on so many platforms. It means that all of our STEMMA QT devices https://www.adafruit.com/category/1018 will work plug-and-play. Here we're testing it with an OLED https://www.adafruit.com/product/938 and SHT41 breakout https://www.adafruit.com/search?q=sht4 we only had to update our demo to use Wire1 instead of Wire, since the secondary I2C bus is used for this connector. No soldering required!

[slacktivist]

Cut your divisions. Slice your faculties. Now bleed out.

[darlingofdots]

"gay or european" also goes for middle-aged women btw. that lady with short hair no makeup and sneakers isn't a lesbian she's just german

[copepods]

leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

[shamebats]

OP's pronouns are she/they.

[singinginthecar]

south africa was banned in the olympics in 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 & 1992. a total of 8 times. for 28 years they didn't set foot in the olympics. you know why? apartheid. apparently the olympics disagreed with the apartheid regime in south africa. russia & belarus aren't allowed to take part in the olympics this year. you know why? because of their involvement in the war in ukraine. several countries throughout history haven't been allowed to participate in the olympics because of various reason from their involvement in war to human rights abuses. now if the olympics aren't blind to all that... why in the world are they blind to what israel has been doing to gaza for the past 10 months? why is a genocidal apartheid nation allowed to participate in the olympics when any other country in its place would've been banned?

[six-costume-refs]

if the pandemic never happened, when do you think the broadway costumes and set would've been fully implemented as the standard/in the UK?

Honestly? No idea. At the time Gabriella Slade had said that the changes would be specific to Broadway and not become standardized across casts, but I don't think anyone believed that would be the case forever. Some of the casts had already partially changed over to Broadway, even at the time: many of the Bliss 2.0 costumes were relatively in line with Broadway changes, and some of the UK costumes had been changed over as well. So while the plan at the time may not have been to fully standardize, most details would have eventually come in line. However, to standardize like they have now required a lot of behind-the-scenes coordination. Right up until the Mar 2020 closures Six was going full speed at the wall, with a ton of cast changes and additional new productions planned. The pandemic gave the entire production team a second (or rather, nearly a year and a half's worth of seconds!) to slow down, and the space to work on some of those administrative and coordination details, as well as budgeting and marketing strategies to give themselves the funds to implement the standardization.

So...realistically, I think some costume changes may have been made by the originally-planned fall 2020 cast changes for WE + UKT. I'd expect we would have seen the Broadway Aragon and Howard designs (already in use in some UK and NCL productions by then, and Howard was also in use in Australia); the then-current UK Cleves (non-reveal with an open jacket, versions of which were in use in some of the UK/NCL/Aus productions); and for Boleyn/Seymour, I honestly have no idea what they may have decided on. For full standardization, Cleves reveal and all, I expect it probably would have been another few years - I think a fall 2021 cast change is probably the first time we would have seen that, which is exactly when it wound up being anyway.

It's also worth noting that Six was planning to move theaters, likely at the time of that 2020 cast change. By default they already needed a new, larger set to fit the new stage. Some or all of the set updates likely would have happened then. And the budget increase incurred from moving to a theater with a larger capacity would have influenced eventual costume updates, too.

[majestq]

[mywordstovictor]

It’s fun to laugh at Americans for using the imperial system but when it comes down to it if you try to tell me about the weather using Fahrenheit that means essentially nothing to me until I convert to Celsius. And yet I have never once encountered an oven set to the metric system and I have no sweet clue what a reasonable preheat setting would be in °C. Standardization is for government documents, not my kitchen.

[findyiot]

Standardization: Battery power is a force multiplier

Rise of Battery Swapping Stations:: Standardization will make it viable to establish urban swapping networks, similar to what Gogoro did with scooters. Service Standardization: Maintenance centers will carry standard diagnostic and servicing tools, reducing downtime and repair costs. Third-party servicing companies will thrive as they no longer need to stock dozens of unique parts.

Municipalities will be more willing to invest, knowing that infrastructure won’t become obsolete with every new model. Economies of scale will reduce battery costs, making replacements more affordable. Charging and swapping networks will expand as local authorities gain confidence in the longevity of the infrastructure.

[jorgenguldmann]

Five Product Classification Standards

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