I'm an electrician.

@krijnsoeteman we are just that safe here. There's about 15 safety features designed into our plugs. It's just a shame they're worse than Lego when it comes to standing on one in the night.

@kuulman it's because the screws are brass. Being a fairly soft metal it doesn't take a countersink very well and cams out easily damaging the screw.

@nomenloony
Shocking! ;-/
Perplexity, which is the only AI I use, got it correct and provided references (as it usually does).
I wouldn't use an AI for anything without references, and then checking those myself.

@tim I've had interchanged neutral/earth before. It works perfectly well until you throw an RCD into the argument.

@nomenloony Skynet will never use nukes. The EMP has forced it into this type of trickery instead.

@nomenloony *ouch!*

@petealexharris @raineer @drahardja @skyfire747 @nomenloony @blogdiva Don't you do that anyway when you add comments to your code?

@technicaladept @raineer @drahardja @skyfire747 @nomenloony @blogdiva

No, a duplicate explanation of what the code is doing is not what comments are for.

Comments are more for "why" one method or choice than another, sometimes "why not", than "what".

Except doc comments, which are closer to spec i.e. "what". The code itself is "how", and it doesn't necessarily come via a verbal description in natural language.

@nomenloony It actually gives some pretty funny results...

@nomenloony ...and it even becomes more funky with further tries. Impressive.

@nomenloony Social darwinism.

@skyfire747 @nomenloony The problem is you can only ask it questions if you know the answer. No matter how far from being right it is, it will always provide you the answer with extreme confidence.

@nomenloony Americans are so jealous of our vastly superior plugs that they've inadvertently taught their predictive text generators to be the same way. GPT wants to electrocute us all to take us out the equation, like a low budget Skynet.

@nomenloony I am confident that the small merchant who sells you stuff on Ali Express knows. ️

@nomenloony

This is truly shocking

@nomenloony "I have got a brown and a blue cable and an LED. How do I connect that LED in three steps so it glows? Explain in simple word (for a layperson)"

The given tutorial results in this:

@nomenloony that’s bad!
Hopefully though the RCD in the board will kick in and stop that, although I imagine the chat bots next advice is “tape it on”…

@skyfire747 @nomenloony until the next one is trained on the slop generated by others

@nomenloony Oh my.......

@nomenloony which reminds me that for the practical element of our Physics exam at school, we had to complete just three basic tasks to get the top grade, one of which was wiring a plug - they might as well have given us the grades just for turning up tbh. And then I see this... ‍️