Board game box sizes
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Battery interfaces. We have a huge variety of batteries for a huge variety of devices. However, when you open the proprietary shell of these batteries what you often find inside is standardized 18650 cells. They have been playing us for absolute fools.
Packaging!!
Phone battery sizes. Also RIL interfaces (the "phone" chip with it's own OS).
Packaging. With everyone buying online the profusion of different types of packaging is wasteful. Packages are processed by machines and in many cases the packaging gets caught on things, gets stuck in conveyor belts or just slides right off. A huge number of items have to be manually processed because of the packaging. Standardised packaging would make automation much easier and lead to faster, cheaper processing. Unfortunately marketers want to use the super shiny slippery packaging with their brand all over it.
If your wine boxes are slippery they deserve to get dropped.
EV charging, a free (as in freedom) decentralised e2ee protocol for chat and calls, p2p mesh networks and (opensourced) SDI on consumer equipments.
We’re really all over with Spinosaurus.
Batteries. Phones, laptops, other random ecrap.
Europe:
Power plugs
Train gauge and electricity
Online payment without credit cards
World wide:
Driving on the right
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Feet, yards, inches should be replaced by the metric system.
There are 2 types of countries in this world: 1. Those that use the metric system and 2. Those that put a man on the moon ;)
Funny thing is, NASA uses metric.
Interesting flex. Apollo Guidance Computer was working with Metric SI units internally.
Calculations were carried out using the metric system, but display readouts were in units of feet, feet per second, and nautical miles – units that the Apollo astronauts were accustomed to.
Metric ftw!
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powertools' batteries.
Human rights
Education
Levels of medical care
Income / maximum wealth (wealth caps)
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I just want existing standards to be public and accessible, not locked behind ~~400~~ 600 € ISO. That defeats the whole point of standards.
Weights and measurements
I really want everyone to use the metric system. Imperial is just awful to use for most design and machine purposes.
Interesting, as somebody who on a somewhat regular basis runs a lathe and occasionally a Bridgeport at work I could not imagine using metric. Mostly because our old machines are all standard, but also because a thousandth of an inch (industry standard unit for measuring clearances) is .0254 mm so now clearances begin to involve more math. Call it lazy but I'm not converting everything on my machines lol. We build engines and some parts and everything we do has to be in SAE.
Every single one of my machines is set up to run metric so I don't have to constantly convert 64's and 8's and thou's fractional units between denominators, which is exactly why I'd rather type .0254mm than 1/1000. I absolutely cannot stand using different fractional denominators or that a foot is divided by 12, but everything else isn't. You've probably used it for years and are used to it, but approaching it with a rational mind seems like unnecessary work and risk of miscalculation.
Every number I use can easily be interchanged for another unit.
The QWERTY keyboard has entered the chat.
"We've always done it this way..."
Instant messengers.
Nuts, bolts, and screw heads.
I know we need various sizes for various tasks, but I shouldn't have to dig through 50 different screwdrivers or ratchet heads and still not have one that'll work.
I'll just be happy when we phase out imperial and other weird thread types. Metric standardisation is a godsend over what came before.
The heads are a lost cause. They serve too many different purposes, with differing, competing, requirements.
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Women's clothing sizes
It's creeping into men's sizes, too.
Depending on the maker, I'm a Large, Extra Large, 2XL, or sometimes 3XL.
And I can fit into some mediums.
And I can fit into some mediums.
I don't want to hear about your psychic sex life, bud
:-)
There was a post recently.
[paraphrase] Guys who make jokes about their big dicks are usually assholes, but guys who joke about how small they are are usually cool and fun.
Reply = I have a medium dick. It can contact the dead.
An open phone standard, and no, I do not mean the 'Open Handset Alliance' that doesn't even live up to its name, I mean like an ATX-equivalent standard for mobile devices.
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All online forms.
I fill out a lot of forms and it's ridiculous. Sometimes I'll be at the bottom of the page, and I'll get a message saying that I can't continue until I fill out a 'must answer' question. Sometimes the programmer was clever enough to make it so I'm directed to the question, but more often than not I have to scroll through the entire form to find where I made my mistake.
And, when I have gotten to the end, it would be nice if there was a chance to review everything.
I'm not even going to start with the forms that make you use the calendar tool that takes longer than just entering the date.
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