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The Box
- gumby 12y agoOne of the cool things about the container is it isn't actually a physical box, but an API: a set of eight twist lock knuckles at the vertices of a 3D rectangle. There are slight dimensional variations, but the standard 40-footer makes up the vast bulk, and there is some level of interoperability between the other sizes. Since that's all there is there are all sorts of other objects that are designed to fit in this envelope; tanks and even pressure vessels are reasonably common, but other strange machinery is framed to fit this infrastructure.
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