Computer devices. Installing Arch Linux and syncing most Important directories with Syncthing so you can work on every device and be sync around the world.
Fucking file formats in the scientific community. Way too many ways to do something in science and every place has their own way.
check out the linux community, whole chat about file formats rn
Can we agree on .hdf/.h5?
Didn’t have any knowledge about this but I will definitely note this for future projects!
Que speed, the one you’re in is always the slowest.
Wheel PCD and hub size.
If every car and (light) truck had a 5x114.3 bolt pattern and a 66mm hub size we could swap so many wheels around. It would be amazing.cries in Volvo 5x108 finding non-oem wheels is impossible
The law throughout all countries in the world
The yyyy-mm-dd format (ISO 8601) is the only one that is unambiguous, because no one so far in history has ever used the yyyy-dd-mm format (at least until some xkcd-reading jokester probably will start using it just out of spite). I use ISO 8601 everywhere. It has the additional benefit that filenames get sorted correctly in lexographical order.
As someone that works with huge amounts of data with dates in varied formats… PLEASE let this be standardised. :')
I was gonna reply the “S” in “ISO” stands for “standardization” but apparently ISO doesn’t stand for anything.
I was expecting a KFC situation, but no:
Because ‘International Organization for Standardization’ would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek word isos (ίσος, meaning “equal”). Whatever the country, whatever the language, the short form of our name is always ISO.
Many years ago, I came across a forum that formatted dates yyyy-dd-mm. That was such a traumatic memory that I still remember it.
Only way I’d do it is by pissing everyone off. DD/YYYY/MM
how about YYMDMDYY
YMDYYDMY
YMCA
IFTSAT
YTMND
Yeenage Tutant Minja Nurtles D
Let there be carnage: DD/YY/MMMM
ISO-8601 has the answer for computers, and maybe humans too. It’s the last way you mentioned for everyday use.
This is why I always use letters for the month when I can. There’s no confusing 3 Oct 2023.
March 8th, 2023?
Yes, very good, you used the letters just like they said.
I’ll cheat the question a bit.
I’d like all critics to have standards and to hew to them. I don’t mind if each critic operates by different standards, so long as all critics can articulate their standards and are consistent in their application.
Most movie critics, for example, are offering their reactions to movies. They may review a movie. But nearly all of them are utterly inconsistent (hypocritical?) in their work. They explain their bad review of a film because of X and then praise another film despite it being just as much X as the film they loathed. If they address this conflict at all, it is with a great deal of handwavium - “This film makes it work.”
If critics had standards, it would be possible to really compare the things they critique. Without those standards, each thing gets its own bespoke write up. Very entertaining, but useless when we want to know which is better or worse.
Electric car chargers.
This is the direction the industry is going to go. F#kn standardize it already, with a reasonable future-proofing schema that handles various voltages, and puts out what the car specifies.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/ZJOfyMCEzjQ?si=nEff3VlOaLXuUEPS
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Well damn, that was fast. I only asked for it like, an hour ago. Good job, world.
I thought so too!
Sometimes I think about standardized retail packaging. What if there was a set of boxes/containers, and they all stacked together nearly and transported nearly. Could save a lot of time and cost on shipping and shelving and potentially make automation easier
Well, it’s not cardboard, but I am absolutely fascinated by euroboxes.
A europallet is 1200x800mm.
Then there are euroboxes of 800x600mm, 600x400mm, 300x400mm etc.
They are stackable, reusable and recyclable and come in different types. Fully enclosed, with lid, with grid walls etc.
Machinists use them as toolboxes, bakers to transport bread and veggie vendors stack have their products on the market in euroboxes.
Interesting! Here’s a Wikipedia link for anyone wanting to know a little more
I don’t know about just one thing, but I’d love to see electric tools all use the same battery interface set of specs. It’s like the bad old days of cell phone chargers
Front panel connectors on motherboards.
Pants sizes. For women, drop the even/odd numbering for women and juniors and move to waist and inseam like men. For everyone, implement some sort of standard policy where the actual measured size can’t be more than an inch off the stated size (to account for variability in manufacturing and such).
standard policy where the actual measured size can’t be more than an inch off the stated size
Yes please, I’m so tired trying to guess if this 33 is a 34, 35, or 36.
Yes, great answer! Not just pants though, we need a standard size for all women’s clothing.
sometimes the clothes measurements are body measurements, and sometimes it’s the exact measurement of the cloth itself, and sometimes it’s the circumference of the relaxed waistband.
A set of standards of course!
Printer ink cartridges. Printer manufacturers are using a loss leader pricing scheme, and I don’t like it. Let them compete!
Switch to laser.
Or if B&W is fine, go for inkless
A lot of the printers these days uses ink tanks. But yeah. Use laser
Screws. There should only be one blade type maybe torx? Obviously different sizes but one style.
