Charlie StrossOct 4, 2024

SCREAM!

(Context for Americans: until relatively recently mains appliances in the UK came without a plug—you had to fit your own. Also they're fused and have to carry 230vac, so getting it wrong is a BAD idea. And this is Very Not Right Indeed.)
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Attached: 1 image I asked ChatGPT how to wire a standard UK plug using the new canvas feature...

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Show threadNeil Madden

@cstross lol, by “relatively recently” you mean 30 years ago right? 😂

I remember as a primary school age kid helping my Dad wire sockets onto things at the secondary school he worked at.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1768/made

The Plugs and Sockets etc. (Safety) Regulations 1994

These Regulations re–enact with modifications the provisions of the Plugs and Sockets etc. (Safety) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/603) and make provision for the first time for certain requirements to be satisfied in relation to appliances.

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Show threadColin WatsonOct 4, 2024
@neilmadden @cstross Yeah, I was going to say, this is the sort of "relatively recently" that means not in my adult lifetime. And I'm old enough for my knees to hurt for no good reason.