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Everything that has not yet been standardized.
Job ads.
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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
all clothing sizes. 34 means 34 inches, but it’s 30-32 inches in asia.
size 12 shoes are different between US, EU and UK. Why the fuck.
Screw heads
Some amount of screw head variance is “I want to make it harder for users to open my product so they are less likely to break it” (e.g., Nintendo GameCube controller used tri-wing screws)
Also the very existence of “security” styles is presumably to keep laypeople out of high security areas.
But I agree there is some change that could be made. Philips in particular leaves a lot to be desired; it’s so easy for them to strip.
philips in particular leaves a lot to be desired; it’s so easy for them to strip.
Which is why Canada uses Robertson in construction, which allows a screw to be driven pointing up.
Phillips heads are designed to cam out to prevent over-tightening. Many who strip Phillips screws are actually using Phillips drivers on JIS (Japanese Industry Standard) heads. They look similar.
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weight measurements in baking recipes (instead of or in addition to volumetric measurements)
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password requirements. Not using the same password for different sites, just using a formula, but it’s hard when some sites require the use of characters that others forbid, or some sites cap password length at a character limit lower than other sites require as minimum.
Yep! Or at least put the fucking formula by the login to prompt which one you used when you registered
Make it automatically readable for password managers
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Equality
Equity
Proportional wealth distribution.
Car infotainment
Social security numbers > more secure identification
Doctors offices
Car infotainment
Before it was called infotainment, it was standardized. Your vehicle had either a DIN or double-DIN sized deck and replacing it meant getting a new deck in the right size and the wiring harness for your vehicle.
Now, every vehicle uses their own specific sized HMI, the computer(s) driving that is buried somewhere else in the vehicle, and it’s so tightly coupled to the car’s specific CAN/ethernet interfaces using signalling that’s only somewhat standard across manufacturers so even integrating a third-party head unit into all of that would likely mean losing a whole bunch of features.
Most people just use Android Auto/Carplay now anyways
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.
That’s true, but it’s also a bit more complicated - you can’t just jam a handful of 18650 cells together and have it work. They need to be matched with cells having similar capacity and internal resistance and depending on the operating characteristics the tolerance can be quite low.
So it is possible to make your own packs or repair ones, but you have to test each cell in the existing pack, as well as test each cell your want to replace in and make sure that they’re all in tolerance to each other.
We, as consumers, really do need to step up our battery knowledge. I would say, general electronics should be a mandatory requirement. Heck it should be a major part of the curriculum.
Board game box sizes
Phone battery sizes. Also RIL interfaces (the “phone” chip with it’s own OS).
Packaging!!
