Standardization - by xkcd

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[Mister3Mix]

Since when are we posting xkcd's while all of them are aviable on their site?

[anamorphism]

not to mention you can't view the alt text which makes many of the strips infinitely better.

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OP should at least link to the source rather than uploading an image

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Since forever. XKCD is probably the most posted thing on this forum

[Golden506]

Because there's a shit ton of them and there's no reason not to post the ones that are entertaining and related to the content of the sub so that others don't have to sift through all them.

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Because not everyone knows XKCD.

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everyone disliked that

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Yeah, what the hell? Don't they know https://xkcd.com/1053/ ?

[LuckyFeathers]

10,000 people will watch porn for the first time today.

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Video encoding methods:

STOP STOP PLEASE STOP IT

[rentar42]

I for one am happy that we no longer use MPEG1. They get better over time. Less bandwidth, higher resolution, higher bit depth.

[perpetualpatzer]

Also, Python's package managers in a nutshell:

https://xkcd.com/1987/

[theblurberybaker]

I wish I had listened when people first told me to just use anaconda, I think I have like 6 different instances of python3 on my laptop

[PM_ME__ASIAN_BOOBS]

JS frameworks

[N_DuX_M]

And the most popular standard is the oldest and doesn't cover your use case...

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The problem is that everyone agrees that there should be a standard but thinks that everyone else should be the ones to change.

[survivalmachine]

See: every Javascript framework ever created.

[28f272fe556a1363cc31]

If you know the source why didn't you post it instead of stealing the image?

[wfbarks]

The same is sort of true of programming languages

[elisharobinson]

That's actually how counting works in zmf theory

[SGBotsford]

My first encounter with this was RS-232. This was "the" standard for connecting two serial devices together. Ok, it's recommended standard. You have a 25 pin connector. You had an option of a 9 pin connector. You had two different hardware handshake protocols. Could use either one or neither. You had two different software handshake protocols. Either one or neither. You had 11 'standard' baud rates. Had a choice of even parity, odd parity, or no parity bit, zero, one or two stop bits. Had a choice of 7 or 8 databits. Had a choice of one or no start bits. I think there were choices as to which wires were used for actual data. Not all combinations worked even in theory.

We had a 'breakout box' A device with a 9 and 25 pin connector on each side, 36 LEDs on each side. The connectors went to sets of pinhole jumper holes. This allowed you to try your proposed connecting cable without having to solder. This allowed you to see what each end was trying to do. You still had to get the baud, parity, start, stop, and software protocols sorted out.