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

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.

That's what sealed-beam headlights used to be before composite housings which are proprietary to a given vehicle were legalized.

In fact, sealed-beams are still widely used in commercial vehicles because of their standardization to a point where they can be picked up anywhere and they're just gonna work.

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!

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.

The headlights themselves should be mounted at a standard height. Taller vehicle? Mount the lights lower on body.

Metric ftw!

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 ;)

You need an equivalent of ACPI in the x86 space to catch on in ARM/RISC-V if you want a general purpose OS to be viable on phones

There's sort-of kind-of SystemReady in ARM but it's a far cry from the standardization of ACPI on x86 desktops

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.

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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Those are already standardized though…

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.

Or the crappy BMW design.

Yes. Everything Robertson.

Forms itself should be a thing of the past. They mimic paper based patterns which makes no sense for lost use cases in 2026.

What we need is standardized APIs through which you can share specific personal info if you wish to do so. E.g. SOLID implements this.

If additional info is needed a basic conversation with an agent could take the place of a form in due time (for those who wish to use this).

The cookies being rejected should've been the standard. Instead they gave us shitty popups that didn't solve anything.

Title. Basic duties. Salary. Upload resume.

The j-hook is fine. What is NOT fine is how difficult it can be to remove the damn wiper blades after they've been outside for awhile and things get dried up. There's got to be a better way

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.

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.

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.

Men's clothes sizes are just as likely to be ill-fitted, it's just that men aren't held to the same standard of fashion. A lot of men don't mind wearing something a size too big or cinching their pants up with a belt. Nobody bats an eye.

https://youtu.be/RxMR1TMec04

Oh man, I use a shopping list app, which lets you sort the products into aisles, so that you can just walk through the store and complete the checklist top-to-bottom as you visit each aisle.

This would be excellent for that.