Notes for Americans:
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RE: https://nomenloony.com/@nomenloony/116019280517956996
Notes for Americans:
1. Until 1992 you had to wire your own plugs onto new electrical appliances in the UK (they were sold without pre-molded plugs).
2. Mains voltage is 230VAC, not 110VAC. It'll kill ya.
3. If you follow ChatGPT's advice *YOU WILL DIE*.
oh yeah, well 60hz works better for clocks.. And our Sonic ran faster than your Sonc... So!.
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross M.C. Escher would have been proud.
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@cstross only missing the enormous rat-penis
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross
Looks plausible to me
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@cstross Blive implies the existence of a Bdead
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@cstross that one is such obvious garbage that even if someone tried to follow it they'd fail.
The danger is with plausible but wrong. OTOH the one showing phase and neural linked is going to go bang quickly, where swapping phase and earth is a known killer. Maybe that's why the LLM wanted a fused earth?
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross yeah right….
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross MY EYES
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross I just asked Gemini to create one for us in Australia. Might try it later… just not sure…
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross Elon Musk's Grok has its own quirks:
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross Ok I think I know who did the wiring in my house now. They literally painted the end of the wire when they used the wrong one.
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@darckcrystale @auxonic @cstross
Oh, you'll fly all right, but the landing's gonna hurt.
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@cstross Escher's Suicide Plug
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
How the Holy Hell did they generate that? I mean, the UK has had more than enough competing designs over the years (some more dangerous than others), but that one's a physical impossibility.
I've used most of those, over the years, plus the bizarre one with standard earth pin, one round pin and one rectangular (rotated 45 degrees) with fuses for both small pins (Bi-phase 240V centre-tapped to Earth!) That one was at Dunlop, and now gone. (Thank the Gods.)
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross I figure at the rate of the Accelerando, we are no more than weeks away from "agentic AI" demanding access to people's financial accounts. Hopefully some of those people will be billionaires drinking their own Kool-Aid.
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