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.
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It looks like it is going to get solved with license plate readers, but toll road transponders. Make everything EZ Pass, that is what it was designed for.
Units of measurement. Imagine if there was one universal way of measuring something, be it temperatures, weights, pressure..
We're close on this one but there's a couple of holdouts.
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!
Ah but see, how are they gonna sell your data if that happens?
Won't somebody think of the corporations???
Police education requirements. In North America, there are like hundreds of different police forces with vastly different requirements. Some will hire highschool dropouts while others require a university education.
Oh they have standard training. That one guy who goes around training them all they will have the best sex of their life after they kill someone. See, nothing to worry about perfectly trained!
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jun/05/architect-of-controversial-killology-police-traini/
That man is very gross. It's even right there in the name.
False. Police agencies are the only institutions legally allowed to discriminate based on intelligence when it comes to hiring. Jordan v. City of New London set the precedent that its okay for police forces to refuse to hire a person because they are too smart. The reasoning in court was that those who are too intelligent face the risk of finding the work boring or becoming distracted by issues outside of the scope of their work. What that means from a practical standpoint is that they want dumb, obedient candidates for police positions rather than logical critical thinking individuals who might actually follow the law over orders from superiors. Its the same thing in the military too.
In the face of the facts, university education is probably more often a disqualification for actual law enforcement.
As I said, it varies depending on the police agency. The RNC in Newfoundland requires a university education. I noted in my comment that I was referring to all of North America
You think think its practical to have the same training for police in Mexico and Canada?
"Congratulations, you're everything we've come to expect from years of government training."
We should really standardise standards
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
before transitioning i literally never knew my pants size because it was different for every brand. now that i shop in the men’s section post transition, i can now buy pants without needing to worry if they’ll fit. it’s the same measurement every single time no matter what brand. men’s sizes for pants work like 30x35, with the first number being the waist and the second being the length. plus, pockets! we seriously need better women’s clothes.
I have definitely run into men’s sizes that are the same size, brand, and style but fit different. Sometimes the cuts are off. And different brands cut differently, so while there may be more consistency than women’s sizes it definitely has a lot of inconsistencies as well.
That’s my anecdotal experience though.
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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
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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.
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.
Button cells should be standardised to only two sizes.
They are a health hazard, a live cell can eat through the stomach of a toddler very easily.
The main reason this occurs is because people buy those multiple size packs because every device has a different size.
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Proportional wealth distribution.
Human rights
Education
Levels of medical care
Income / maximum wealth (wealth caps)
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Board game box sizes
Headlights that don't blind oncoming vehicles
The headlights themselves should be mounted at a standard height. Taller vehicle? Mount the lights lower on body.
No second headlights on trucks either
i'm not normally in support of taking control away from owners, but automating headlights seems like a big one. make radar and/or lidar, along with LED headlights, a requirement on new vehicles and have them automatically reduce brightness when a vehicle approaches. my old mazda would at least automatically turn the high beams off if a vehicle was a certain distance away from me.
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Everything that has not yet been standardized.
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