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Out of curiosity, what was your internal calculation for the amount of time to microwave the water vis-a-viz the volume of water and the relative power (efficiency) of the microwave?
Did you overshoot this time by a wide margin and therefore overheat? Or you really needed scolding hot water? Or was something "new" at this point (microwave, cup, amount of water, desired heat)?
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No solid experimental number for you, but it was something along these lines...
- Glass bowl; extremely plain (jibes with the scientists here)
- Volume if full: one pint
- Quantity in bowl: 11 or 12 ounces
- First heating: 6 minutes
- Ooops distracted time: 8 minutes
- Reheat setting: 5 minutes
- Explosion momment: 3 or 4 minutes
All times and quantities are complete and utter guesses with zero accuracy; fifty percent margin of error would not surprise me.
Oh, the initial 6 minute thing is what I normally use. It's a big microwave; a thousand watts or so, built in above the regular stove, so that number is probably correct.
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wow, so I usually make my coffee in 90 seconds, about 10 oz.
Not too hot.
2 minutes would be HOT.
3 minutes would be near boiling for sure, in a similar microwave.
I found this:
Time to bring to boil 3 cups of room temperature water in a microwave, by watts:
1000 watts: 5 min 57 sec
so, that is 3 cups, you had maybe 2 cups (2 minutes less time) Jives with my experience.
(back of the envelope, right).
So, you clearly boiled it the first time.
then it started out hot, and 8 minutes... you super boiled it.
Yep. You over boiled the water. Clearly.
During this time, you did not open the microwave and touch it to see if it was good enough?
(I would assume not).
You have the personality of a programmer (clearly distractable for many minutes, and a touch of OCD in giving the details!) LOL
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Just to clarify; yes, the water almost always boils in 6 minutes; I think it starts around 4 or 5.
An expert who was involved in the design of microwaves told me that the physical size of the device was the second most important factor in actual heating.
i.e., a lower powered device can produce superior heating if the internal volume is sufficiently small.
That's what the expert told me.
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User Friendly: Coffee[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 28-Mar-17 5:45am.
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My kinda coffee. Kinda looks like me, too. Scary.
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Since I've lost track of whose turn it should be, I'll turn it off, and back on again:
His stomach is churning - but he enjoys it! (9)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Masochist (anagram of his stomach, a masochist being one who enjoys pain in general and .NET in particular).
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Successful reboot: you are up tomorrow.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A Masochist also being somebody who keeps the CCC OTD going.
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IYYM "ovisophile".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A slightly different crossword thread: four clues with connected answers - who or what connects them? (6)
Green lady ... (5)
... leaves chaps in trouble (7)
Constant exercise channel ... (4)
... rating cruise right into Sultanate (6,3)
Slogans aren't solutions.
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That's the cryptic answer.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OK It's been a few hours. Got as far as "Olive spinach"...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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That's two correct - might be enough to get the link.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Ah, but if you change your name to McPlanetface by deed poll, they'll have no choice.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I would suggest something more modest, like Frank, Rodney or Alfonso.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Unless it's only half the size of Earth, in which case "Eric".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Unless it's only half the size of Earth You mean like Mars? A typical Italian. Pompous name, but would not knock his head if he ran underneath the kitchen table.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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All I have to do is to sit down in front of my telescope and wait for 10,000 to 20,000 years! Easy-peasy...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Planet O'Planeton is still valid, right?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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As Herschel tried to name Uranus "Georgium Sidus" after King George, perhaps an English discoverer should call it "Elizabethium Sidus".
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Makes you wonder which kind of humour Bode was having.
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