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@silvermoon82 @nina_kali_nina Ok, but what's the time difference between the two celebrations in units of Small Boulders? @nina_kali_nina this reminds me of my electronics course in engineering school: "there are two standards for graphical representation of logic gates: the international one, used by France, and the american one, used by everyone else" @pulkomandy @nina_kali_nina both are defined in the same IEEE standards But I've never seen anyone use rectangular ones in France, except a teacher in uni to show it exists (same for resistor, bjt, mosfet ect) @pulkomandy @nina_kali_nina @nina_kali_nina Almost, but you also need to know that the U in USB stands for 'Universal'. Which is why there are eleventy-two different and non-interchangeable kinds. Problem: There are n competing standards. [later] Problem: There are n+1 competing standards. @nina_kali_nina for added fun and games, the standardization of the spelling "standardise" for "standardize" in British English is also not .. standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling @nina_kali_nina but also note "Oxford spelling is not necessarily followed by the staff of the University of Oxford. The university's style guide, last updated in 2016, recommended the use of -ise for internal use" >headdesk< The good thing about standards is that there are so many that each can have his or her own ;) This is the conundrum with trying to cut the number of rules and regulations, we have a tremendous bureaucracy over here in the Netherlands, Kafka would have been inspired. Did you know Kafka changed nationality without moving from Prague? Anyway to cut rules you need new ones to make that happen that's obvious. @nina_kali_nina |
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See also, World Standards Day.