Also X often supported a different size viewport and desktop so the view would scroll.

I remember encountering that the first time I used Linux! Can’t recall personally finding a good use for it but…neat I guess?

+1 for hex, but that’s in a lab setting — climate controlled environment, generally not high torque, pretty benign conditions. But even that is fraught with metric-vs.-imperial mix ups.

Multiple desktops, 1999. What an amazing feature.

A quick web search suggests that macOS (then OS X) got this in 2007 (“Spaces”), and Windows not until 2015.

This alone makes this GUI more functional IMHO.

I rode in a 3 a while back, and to me it felt like a futuristic econobox.

So 84,000 for a glass assuming 100% of the fluid is benzene (unless I misunderstood your calculation). Benzene concentration is about 1% of gasoline, and a tanker is about 20,000L, or ~40,000x more than a cup. Cube root of 40,000 is about 34 (cube root for the surface to volume factor). 34*100 is 3400, which is about 25x off from the 84,000 reduction required to be “safe.” So it’s roughly 25x worse than the Oregon cutoff (but seemingly within EPA limits, which appears to be ~1000x less stringent [!!!]). Unless I made some errors or misunderstood.

In any event I’ll try to source my cooking oil from uncontaminated trucks!

(As an aside, thanks for taking my question seriously and putting thought into an answer, unlike some of the other more “colorful” responses!)

When I first heard Foghat’s “Slow Ride” I thought they were saying “Snow White / take it easy!” Which made a lot of sense to college me — this Snow White vixen is really getting down to business…

I dunno, seems reasonable to me in the same way that Spanish using “¿” at the beginning of a question makes sense.

That it’s inconsistent with other units is certainly annoying, but if anything I think it’s the more sensible way.

…scaling laws. They are best illustrated with different sized items. Like a thimble, a coffee cup, or an oil tanker, all representing volumes of different orders of magnitude.

A simple, “your scaling argument doesn’t really apply since the amount of residue left behind scales with the volume, not area” would have sufficed.

Gasoline is a pretty powerful solvent; would residue left behind that doesn’t come off from gasoline be liberated by cooking oil? It’s an honest question.

And I sure hope the regulatory agencies and shipping companies in my country do a better job than in China. This sort of thing is terrifying; I’m just curious as to an emotionless analysis of how bad this likely is. What concentration of benzene is acceptable? “None” would be best but we already breathe it. Would contaminated cooking oil likely be equivalent to…inhaling once at a gas station? A wet martini with diesel instead of vermouth?

No shit.

My question was an honest scaling law question. Of course this is bad. Which is what I said.

My question is how bad, which is a legitimate question, and is not in any way saying these are defensible actions. They are not.

If you fill a thimble with diesel, drain it, and then fill it with water, that’s gonna be super gross — the diesel will probably form a thin layer on the thimble which is then diluted with a thimble full of water. Super gross. But by the time you get to a fuel can, the thin layer of diesel on the can is now diluted by a can of water. Because surface area scale like length squared but volume like length cubed, this is a better situation (for a given amount of water). Now when this is scaled up further, the diesel gets increasingly diluted. This is the root of my question, it’s not saying that we should accept this or that it’s good, I’m just curious.

This is obviously not good, but I don’t have great intuition.

If I have a mug full of gasoline (or worse, diesel or something cruder), and reuse that for coffee, I can imagine that being bad. But a tanker truck is humongous, and the contamination would, I imagine (???), scale roughly like a surface area-to-volume kind of thing, meaning that contamination for a huge container should be substantially “better” than my coffee example. (Perhaps this scaling law is a bogus assumption though?)

Of course it is still bad, gross, and probably dangerous…

Not something I have experience with, but have you looked at city/government jobs? You won’t get rich, but afaik a lot of them have stability and pensions — work there long enough and retirement at a reasonable age may even be possible (assuming things don’t go to shit).

USPS comes to mind.

If it’s a case of needing ad-hoc WiFi from Windows, an Android phone tethered over USB will act as a WiFi adapter of sorts.

Having survived grad school and then some without a dishwasher, I will never look at loading/unloading the dishwasher as a chore; it is a privilege to do so (and is always followed by a heartfelt Thank You to that most selfless of appliances).

Maybe a dumb take, but I think milking customers for all they’re worth is much better option than what HP is seemingly doing — which is milking them for all they’re worth this quarter.

Like, there are companies with a cult like following (Valve comes to mind) and while they could probably increase profit for a quarter or two, they seem to be playing the long game fairly well. Which is ultimately better for everyone — they get more money over your lifetime, and you get a product that you’re happy with.

It’s also somewhat unique as a state (maybe?) in that it has a ton of corporate exports (namely, tech), as well as gigantic agricultural output. Illinois comes to mind as a similar situation. Contrast to Alaska (oil) or NY (NYC finance/corporate).

Easy if you have money. If a new phone is a financial stretch, then in the short term it can be cheaper to get a nice phone for “free” with carrier lock in (which of course means it wasn’t free at all). It probably ends up being more expensive in the long term, but your paycheck can cover it.

Wrong. I breathed in some helium once and it made my voice all high pitched which threatened my fragile masculinity. Very toxic.

(/s…)

Never worked much with cryogenics, but the one thing I learned was to never get in an elevator with (large quantities of) liquid nitrogen — if the elevator stops it can displace the oxygen and that’s…kinda bad.

I think the biggest sin that South Park and The Simpsons have made is the disaffected “both candidates suck equally” bit. Essentially advocating for voter apathy is appalling. Just look at the makeup of the US Supreme Court and say with a straight face that “Giant Douche” and “Turd Sandwich” was a reasonable take.

Yeah, but this is (according to OP) faster, which saves money. And, because it’s open, if there are features that could add serious value, they could be added in-house.

But yeah, perhaps a bit of a pyrrhic victory.