Human rights
Education
Levels of medical care
Income / maximum wealth (wealth caps)
Headlights that don’t blind oncoming vehicles
If you’re in Canada, they’re developing standards and they’re asking for feedback. There’s a survey to fill out on the Transport Canada site.
OMG, light pollution in general has become my current “white whale,” and the gods awful headlights on these ridiculous cars makes the most of it!
We should be able to see the stars at night, I don’t think we have to sacrifice a dark night for the sake of “safety,” maybe use a different color of street lamps, or get the lights on the walkway with just enough to find your way around
Please, I don’t want to lose the Night!
Seriously… I hate my own damn headlights! People flash their high beams at me as if I have mine on, but they’re just the stock headlights… I’ve been seriously considering going to a mechanic to have dimmer lights installed lol
Your headlight level adjuster might be stuck or broken. Have your mechanic check that it works.
A lot of vehicles have a beam dip adjuster in the cab. Mine pops out when I press the center of the light control selector.
Officially, they are to correct for a heavy load in the back. Unofficially, if you tweak them, you can flip between longer range, and polite as required.
If you watch your lights, there should be a fairly sharp cut-off at the top of their coverage. If that line ever hits a window or mirror, it will look like you are flashing them. If it’s too high, either fix it yourself (generally quite easy) or get it fixed.
If people regularly flash their lights at you over it, you probably should.
Aim them yourself. You’ll spent more time finding a good spot to aim them then actually doing it.
If they’re LEDs or HIDs they’re probably just a screw you turn to aim them. If they dont then it’s basically the same thing, but in a less convenient spot. Look up the proper aiming procedure for your car, or just wing it by finding a car in a parking lot.
Feet, yards, inches should be replaced by the metric system.
When you can divide a meter evenly by 2, 3, 4, 6 we will talk. Until then take your crappy base 10 measurements and stefu!
It can be done just like for feet and inches, look:
- a half meter: ½m
- a third of a meter: ⅓m
- a fourth of a meter: ¼m
- a sixth of a meter: ⅙m
Yet I only need an integer when using the imperial system, and I don’t have to repeat 3 into infinity.
⅓m is 1.093504 feet or 13.12205 inch. I don’t see how it’s more convenient.
Work in a machine shop for a week and get back to us
The entire planet’s machine shops do fine.
1x1x1 metre cube holds 1000L of water, and weighs 1000kg.
Uh? Done. What happens now?
What machines do u run in what country?
But then you’ve got a space that’s 5’ 7 3/8" and you need a clearance of 7/32" on each end, so your piece should be…uh… 5’ 6 15/16" long. So much easier than metric, right?
In metric it would be 1711mm (or 1.711m) and you’d need to take 5.5mm off each end, so it’s 1700mm. (For the record, I picked random numbers in imperial and only did the metric conversion afterwards, I just lucked into the nice round number here.)
I dunno. You need how many sig figs you need in whichever system, but switching between a factor of 12 for the feet, base 10 for the inches, and the equivalent of binary decimals for the partial inches sure does take getting used to. I’ve finally gotten used to it enough that I can do it in my head, but I prefer to work on metric for most things.
I acknowledge that machinists just use thousandths of an inch, which does greatly improve working with that system, but it also introduces a third kind of measurement that can’t easily be interconverted with the other two. I dunno. It just feels like we’re doing way too much work propping up this archaic system when literally everyone else in the world is using something simpler and we could just be on the same 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 ;)
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.
Funny thing is, NASA uses metric.
Cannot stand Duo and Microsoft Authenticator. Proprietary MFA clients should be ridiculed.
Hyperbolic and lacking nuance? Yes. But I came here to shout into the clouds, not to be fair.
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 replace crappy ones when I remove them.
I’ll tolerate Phillips, but slotted gets replaced with torx. Phillips get replaced if they get damaged.
Torx are pretty great
Everything should be torx
There are reasons why you can’t have Torx in some situations. For example, sanitary machine designs. Preference is a flanged hex head. If flush mount is required, then slotted is best (even though they do suck for every other reason)
Best of luck with that mate. Do you know how many different cross-shaped drives there are already?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives
And if you really want to get upset about confused standards you should read the section of the Talk page about why JIS B 1012 was removed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_screw_drives
They ARE distinct from standard Phillips, and posidrive. If one tries to use Phillips on them you’ll likely strip the head.
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As discussed, the previous paragraph was wrong and (as of now) uncited, so it was removed. No information is better than wrong information.
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.
Those are already standardized though…
There are 14 competing standards. We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.
Congratulations now we have 15 standards.
I think that was the joke yes
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.
Job ads.
To hell with all the bullshitting.Title. Basic duties. Salary. Upload resume.
Women’s clothing sizes. My size varies wildly depending on the store and every woman I know says the same thing. It can be really upsetting and at best it’s a massive PITA
The “reject all cookies” button
I just want existing standards to be public and accessible, not locked behind
400600 € ISO. That defeats the whole point of standards.Btw, is there no torrent for should-be-free standards?
Sure, you can search for alternative sources, hope that the PDF is not just image-scans but indexed and searchable text, and that it has a jump-able table of contents, and that it has not been altered and is up to date. Or you can go through public implementations and try to replicate, infer, and follow implementations or third-party descriptions of the standard. But all of that is error-prone and time and effort investment.
It shouldn’t be like that. A standard should be public so that anyone can implement it, from either side. So anyone can verify and compare against the reference, and call out implementation misalignments.
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.
Account metadata. I should be able to keep my contact info, personal data, friend list(s), notification settings, etc. on a server (personal or trusted) and use that account on different websites. There’s no reason for these sites to all keep a separate incompatible record of these things!
Weights and measurements
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.
An open-source ISA already exists in RISC-V, maybe that hypothetical ATX-for-mobile-devices standard could standardize around that for starters, as for an OS, it could standardize around non-Android Linux and maybe even some BSD mobile OSes instead of Google pulling some MS-in-the-'90s crap for Android like they’re doing right now.
Women having class.
Standardize not holding women to ambiguous and hazy hierarchical standards like “class” 🙄
Standardize letting women just be people and minding your damn business. Like wtf is this answer?
I was expecting like the metric system, or the number of continents but no… I’m going to go outside and rip ass so hard today, just for you buddy. 👍
RIP, class 😎
