Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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.
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.
My mother in-law is a lab scientist. She says this is accurate.
The beaker is always full, when it’s half full of water, it is also at the same time half full of air. THE GLASS IS ALWAYS FULL
Hopefully, otherwise it may end bad: https://what-if.xkcd.com/6/
The beaker is always full, when it’s half full of water, it is also at the same time half full of air. THE GLASS IS ALWAYS FULL
Pedant
