chaosCruiser

The liquid retention system would fail catastrophically if you added a hole.

Your unit ships with a single multipurpose I/O aperture, integrated during manufacture as part of the standard liquid retention subsystem. This is the industry-default configuration: no user-installable ports are required, and no drivers are needed. The liquid interface is natively supported out of the box. There’s also limited support for high-density gases, such as O₂ or H₂S. If you’re planning to store liquids in the unit, please verify the that the material is compatible with the liquid in question. Usually, cups are made of glass, but plastic variants exist as well. In case of glass, you can safely store most liquids in it, but a HF solution will damage the container. Also, high temperature liquids, such as Fe will cause severe thermal damage.

Dual-aperture variants do exist under the technical designation “pipe”, but implementing such a layout violates the single-opening constraint of the current “cup” specification. A pipe is therefore non-compliant and cannot be certified as a cup. Your unit, as shown, is fully spec-compliant.

Note on accessing the internal storage volume: ingress is performed by routing liquid through the top aperture under gravity-based transport. Keep total payload below rated capacity (see manufacturer provided specifications) or you will trigger an uncontrolled spillage event, which is not covered by the warranty.

The unit must maintain a stable upright orientation (aperture normal ≥ 90° relative to the horizontal plane) during normal operation. Any deviation beyond the rated tilt threshold will initiate an unattended liquid release event via the I/O aperture. Such events are classified as user-initiated bulk egress and fall outside the scope of the retention warranty. Recovery from an egress event requires a manual refill cycle; the system does not support automatic re-ingestion of released payloads.

Why should I buy a fire extinguisher? My house isn’t on fire, so what am I going to do with that investment? In the meanwhile, I can use that money on something that will bring about an immediate benefit, such as a mini fridge for my 7up cans or a deep fryer for chicken wings.

Sounds stupid, I know. That’s exactly how companies work. That old code written in the 1980s still works, so why bother rewriting it. This old server still runs and we’re not even maxing out its capacity, so we’re definitely not upgrading it. Instead we will keep on pouring millions on patching the old code even though there are only a handful of people who know that language. Meanwhile, we will also complain about electricity prices, even though newer servers would cut electricity expenses to a fraction. Companies are totally allergic to capex, but somehow they can always handle absurdly high opex.

Who knows really. Take it literally, and they probably care quite a bit. If not, the amount of caring is exactly zero.

Thanks!

Likewise, “all but impossible” sounds like the probability is anywhere above zero (0, 1]. Counterintuitively, what it really means is that it is actually very close to zero. So maybe something like [0, 0.1]. Should zero be included in this interval?

That is actually pretty metal. No wonder why it’s a Swedish thing.

I tried it once. Turns out, a very thin layer is all you need.

Very interesting. I’m beginning to see why so many people are recommending systemd instead of cron.