Care to explain your reasoning, then? Or did you just want to feel smug?

Edit: boy howdy, looks like you’re completely wrong anyway. While the breakers certainly don’t trip at their exact ratings (good thing I never said that they did) and do take time to trip for certain loads above their ratings, there is an absolute cutoff, somewhere between 2x and 20x their rating depending on the breaker type. So my number was a bit off, should have been 30-500A depending on the breaker type and rating, but it was a lot closer than “never ever at all.”

I was a little worried that that part would distract from the overall message, so I’m glad I ended up leaving it in and I appreciate you telling me that it helped.

Reducing suburbs could also help a lot. Use the vertical space!

Nope. Circuit breakers do not break on absolute current values.

Huh, TIL.

Ever. Period. At all.

That doesn’t seem to be supported by my research. Standard breakers are designed to trip based on a function of over-current and time, but that doesn’t preclude any breakers from using current alone.

Even a basic spec sheet will inform you as much…

It won’t. I checked. A more detailed spec sheet will, but not a basic one.

It’s why many euro firms make fun of American standards: They’re literally not expressive of reality.

They sure look like they are. The rating is the current that the breaker can sustain indefinitely at the reference temperature. And it sure looks like the EU rates them the same way.

Even GFCI’s can shock the fuck out of you in certain circumstances.

Of course they can. You aren’t a ground fault. A load of 100mA on a GFCI is perfectly normal, and the same load will kill a human very quickly.

It’s 100% current, but the current that matters is the current through you. The resistance between your hands is roughly 3 kΩ at low voltages and about 1 kΩ at 220V. You need about 5 mA DC or 1 mA AC to feel anything, which means you need about 15V DC if you’re the only resistance in the circuit.

The current at your outlet will be ~0.05A if the only path between hot and neutral is the transformer. If you add an alternate path, you allow for up to 25A or so before the breaker cuts the circuit. 25A would mean that the resistance between hot and neutral is about 8Ω. If you are the alternate path, there will be about 220V/1k=220mA going through you, which is about 8x the amount needed to cause you to go into cardiac arrest.

The only time that the current in the outlet while the transformer is connected would matter is if you were in series with the transformer. If you stuck a wire into each side of the outlet and connected one to one side of the transformer, then grabbed the other wire with one hand and the other side of the transformer with the other hand, you’d experience a shock of about 55 mA (0.05 A, like you calculated), which would still probably kill you.

The button cell doesn’t do anything because it’s 1.2V. That means its max current through your body is about 0.4 mA, or 0.0004A. It’s also DC, which means that it affects your body about 5x less than the AC in your wall outlet.

Chapter 41: how to open your IDE

The last one definitely is.

Sure, the Kentucky governor could replace him with a Democrat

No, he couldn’t. The KY legislature passed the “fuck Andy Beshear in particular” act in 2023, requiring the seat to remain vacant until a special election.

Historically, that tends to be the Achilles’ Heel of anarchist societies, from my layman’s understanding. They don’t tend to fall to peasant revolts, failing economies, population collapse, or insane leaders; once they get initial stability, things tend to run fairly smoothly until someone with more guns decides to stop them.

Or just… give them your number. If they’re interested, they’ll contact you. If they aren’t interested, they would have given you a fake number, made excuses, blocked you, etc. anyway.

Faking gravity is probably way harder on a terrestrial station, but amplifying the effects of existing gravity becomes an option. A 50kg person with 250kg of training weights would have about the same amount of force on their feet on the moon as they would without the weights on earth. Sure, momentum would act differently, but you could always tweak the amount. Probably easier than extra rocket launches, at least.

This is my new favorite pyramids conspiracy theory: aliens arrived just after the pyramids were built.

I’m not saying that that’s the only kind of SA, of course. It was just an easy shorthand for likely imminent SA (and ongoing sexual harassment, for that matter).

Huh, TIL that B-keyed slots can have any PCIe at all. I thought it meant SATA-only.

In other words, if it’s correctly labeled, it will work unless Dell actively prevented it from doing so, but that isn’t out of the question.

Likewise, I’d be scared of a shark that was right next to me, or a person chasing me with exposed genitalia, but a standing refrigerator or a person behaving normally is unlikely to suddenly fall or assault you. There’s still a chance, and you can and should still be aware of it and take appropriate precautions, but being on edge constantly is going to cause more issues that it solves.

The celibacy still has to exist. You could perhaps say that incels are aspiring sex criminals, but once you become a sex criminal, you’re no longer an incel.

He’s literally a rapist. He’s definitely not celibate.

Falling appliances kill about twice as many people per year as sharks, but if you’re more afraid of a refrigerator than of a shark, a lot of people will definitely call you dramatic. Proximity is a huge factor in the likelihood of any given occurrence.

It certainly raises your odds above 1/70k.