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Nina Kalinina

That's all you need to know about "standardization" IRL

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Nina Kalinina

@silvermoon82 local standards are important and valid!

Jeff

@silvermoon82 @nina_kali_nina Ok, but what's the time difference between the two celebrations in units of Small Boulders?

PulkoMandy

@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"

Successive Approximation Register

@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)

2xfo

@pulkomandy @nina_kali_nina
The one i learned was "the best thing about standards is they are all different"

Isocat

@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.

Nina Kalinina

@Isocat it's as much universal as common knowledge is common, that's all

__Miguel_

@nina_kali_nina
The "New Orthographic Agreement", which should theoretically standardisze the way the several Portuguese languages are written (and spoken to a lesser degree), is drunk giggling at the corner.

The thing has SO many exceptions that it might as well not exist in the first place.

And after decades of it being signed there's exactly ONE country that adopted it, Portugal, with debatable actual effective implementation outside (and even inside, honestly) the Government sector even after at least a decade of being legally mandatory to use it for Government-related things (including schools)...
@luna

@nina_kali_nina
The "New Orthographic Agreement", which should theoretically standardisze the way the several Portuguese languages are written (and spoken to a lesser degree), is drunk giggling at the corner.

The thing has SO many exceptions that it might as well not exist in the first place.

And after decades of it being signed there's exactly ONE country that adopted it, Portugal, with debatable actual effective implementation outside (and even inside, honestly) the Government sector even after...

Simon Zerafa :donor: :verified:

@nina_kali_nina

Ironic. Even it's spelling isn't standardi{s|z}ed 😸🤷‍♂️

Patrick Johanneson 🚀

@nina_kali_nina

Problem: There are n competing standards.
Genius: Let's consolidate these standards into one overarching standard.

[later]

Problem: There are n+1 competing standards.

Steven Reed

@nina_kali_nina for added fun and games, the standardization of the spelling "standardise" for "standardize" in British English is also not .. standard: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_s

Steven Reed

@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<

xs4me2

@nina_kali_nina

The good thing about standards is that there are so many that each can have his or her own ;)

hnapel

@EnaWasHere @nina_kali_nina

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.

Jan Niklas Fingerle

@nina_kali_nina
You won't believe it, but in German and French it's another two totally different words.

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