See, if everything was j hook, blades wouldn't have their own array of adapters, some of which get stuck even on j hooks.

If you have trouble, just break the plastic off. You're replacing it anyway.

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)

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!

Yeah, so use your left hand to steer and right hand for everything else.

Yes. Everything Robertson.

Metric ftw!

Or the crappy BMW design.

Weights and measurements

https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night

Batteries. Phones, laptops, other random ecrap.

Prioritise everything else over where the car goes? Madness.

Weaves wildly onto the pavement full of school kids but accurately adjusted the aircon

We’re really all over with Spinosaurus.

EV charging, a free (as in freedom) decentralised e2ee protocol for chat and calls, p2p mesh networks and (opensourced) SDI on consumer equipments.

And I can fit into some mediums.

I don't want to hear about your psychic sex life, bud

:-)

Hard to explain how they work

Not well at all when it comes to avoid blinding bicyclists, that's for sure.
Just another tech developed by the car industry pretending there are only cars in the road.

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

RIP, class 😎

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.

That effect is vastly overblown and doesn't really matter.

Sure, if we only started driving today, we should pick the best side from all perspectives, but changing that now will just be extremely expensive for a very limited gain.

The same goes for switching any island nation from left to right.

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.

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 ;)

Work in a machine shop for a week and get back to us

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.

Phone battery sizes. Also RIL interfaces (the "phone" chip with it's own OS).

Btw, is there no torrent for should-be-free standards?

No; personally i find those annoying as hell when a car with those is behind me. Having partial high beams on either side from behind, that also come on and of with oncoming traffic, is really distracting. Never mind the "less good" implementations, that blind you through your side mirrors.

Funny thing is, NASA uses metric.

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.

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.

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.

Apollo Guidance Computer | Wikipedia

The QWERTY keyboard has entered the chat.

"We've always done it this way..."

Board game box sizes

Packaging!!

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.

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.

Proportional wealth distribution.

It's crazy how much it evolved in just a hundred years. Even crazier that it's still evolving at all after being extinct for 100 million years.

Car infotainment

Social security numbers > more secure identification

Doctors offices

• weight measurements in baking recipes (instead of or in addition to volumetric measurements)

• 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.

Screw heads

Good news on the EV charging part, at least in North America. Most (if not all) manufacturers have agreed to switch to NACS, and most have adapters to work with either connector. There will be a long tail as the old connectors fade away, but the future is looking standardized.

and how did that Mars landing go?

But their independent contractors use imperial and convert back and forth. This is how the Mars Climate Orbitor was botched.

50cm

33.3 cm

25cm

16.7cm

The entire planet's machine shops do fine.

1x1x1 metre cube holds 1000L of water, and weighs 1000kg.

Just don't make headlights stupid bright.

They won't do shit unless the US does it first. Government loves to consult and ignore.