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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bad Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Good Engineer: The glass is 66% full with a 25% safety margin.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This glass has a safety factor of 2

Re: good engineer: this is the thing that frustrates me amount marketing/labeling for travel mugs or cookware; the listed capacity is the absolute brim capacity not the practical capacity. Want to put 16 oz in a 16 oz mug you’re gonna have to sip 3 ounces out first in order to put the lid on. Want to serve 2 qt soup? Gotta use the 3 qt pot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes!! So unbelievably annoying. Okay. Thank you. The total volume of this cylinder is 473ml. What the fuck can I use this for?! What I want you to tell me: total volume and total practical volume. Dumb af

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Real engineer: it's full. Approximately 50% water, and the rest air.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"The glass was built to the wrong specifications"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Glass functioning as intended. Any deficiencies that arise are due to the failure of the customer to provide appropriate design parameters.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Backyard tinkerer and wannabe Engineer: I'll just use this glass jar I used to drain some gas as the thing to drink my water now ..... this is water right?

[–] phdepressed 6 points 1 week ago

Not if you need to stir it.

[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 1 week ago

Mechanic: The glass is not leaking. Returned to service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

a true engineer gets a mindworm and precisely calculates and trials the minimum size of glass needed to contain the liquid without spilling