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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Been thinking about this myself, and have been seriously considering making it.

    As for maximizing, you’re really just zooming into the canvas (though not a visual zoom, more of a “sizing zoom”). “Zoom” levels could be used for a lot more than maximizing: think StarCraft camera hotkeys.

    One of the major issues I haven’t been able to think through is how to get templates right. If I were to use this as a daily driver, I would want to be able to place down predefined layouts and actually start programs in them. E.g. one terminal running a text editor, and another running a shell below it. I haven’t figured out the UX to make that efficient.

    Maybe a project for this weekend.


  • If you throw gasoline out on to the pavement it will evaporate away. If you keep it in a gasoline can it will not. In a gasoline can the liquid and gas will reach equilibrium, though you’ll certainly have slightly less liquid than what you started with. If the can isn’t sealed then, yes, all the gasoline will eventually evaporate away - even at STP.

    And, again, this is all trivial to test at home by using some hand sanitizer. Another example is your skin does not remain wet with water forever, despite human skin temperature not being 100°C. It’s an everyday phenomena, I’m not sure what you’re trying to argue against here. It’s not my “line of thinking,” it’s objectively reality.

    As for your distillation problem, the issue isn’t that some alcohol remains in the water - it’s that some water evaporates alongside the alcohol during the distillation process at the boiling point of alcohol - due to, guess what, vapor pressure. That’s called an azeotrope - clicking through to that Wikipedia page might have helped.



  • it would not turn into a gas at normal conditions.

    It does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_pressure. In an airtight container you would have an equilibrium of alcohol vapor and liquid. In open-atmosphere, the atmosphere basically behaves like an infinitely large volume for the vapor - so the alcohol will completely vaporize (and cool the surface it is on in order to do so).

    It’s also trivial to demonstrate by pouring alcohol onto a surface, it disappears in seconds. Same with gasoline and numerous other liquids you’ve surely seen do this (another example is hand sanitizer, which is basically pure alcohol).

    Being diluted doesn’t really help with any of this though. Also alcohol is kept in bottles, which are usually airtight until they are first opened.