I haven't watched through this one yet, but I found the first book in the light novel series relatively self-contained, and I didn't really feel like the later books added much to the series. Assuming it made it through that first book, it might be worthwhile sitting exactly where it is.
The most important risk you face is if somehow mains voltage ends up contacting somewhere you get electrocuted and die.
There are 2 purposes of an earth ground: First it can be used as a reference for certain signals, such as microphones. Second, it can be used to protect against turning yourself into a sparker.
There is a clear separation between mains voltage and system voltages so it's typically not going to be a problem, but if a little wire ends up contacting the power supply case it can become energized and things start to get really bad.
Most of the electrical code where I live focuses on grounding as "Bonding", which is purely safety related for giving dangerous voltages a safe place to go.
Short side hamper handle from the top:
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Long side hamper handle from the bottom:
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I always enjoy prints that just become part of our lives (and especially ones that let us keep using something that's going to the landfill otherwise)
The hamper has handles that break. For most people I think that'd be time to replace it. I didn't want to do that, so I designed a new handle based on the handle on the short end. This ended up being a mistake later, I'll explain then.
I printed 2 handles (the connection between the two is just to make the printing work better since it can print the two pieces as one piece, then I just snap the two apart and clean up the spot they were connected)
I used my rotary tool to remove the remnants of the original handles. I should have used the cutting tool but I had the diamond grinder so I used that. It worked fine, I was able to fully remove the old material. A quick test fit confirmed that the handle design was pretty good (I just used a tape measure for the measurements so this was a real potential problem)
I went to the long side, but realized that the design of the hamper was different lengthwise than widthwise. I removed a couple tabs that were going to block the new handle, and instead of putting it in as designed, I just put it sideways, which fit.
I put the two in and added gorilla glue. Gorilla glue requires water to foam up, so I wet all the parts. Now everything is fitted, the glue is in, and it's just drying now. I'd consider this repair a success, and I expect the strong PLA part to give the whole hamper a lot more stiffness at those parts, and there's significantly more material in these spots that break. If the other two handles break, I'll just print two more, and at that point I can't help but think that the hamper will be bulletproof.
Originally copyright was like 15 years and if the thing was really good for you then you could Apply for a second 15 year term.
30 years is a long time to get a monopoly over something. As a human being, 30 years is a significant part of your entire lifetime. From birth to 30 years you have your entire childhood, many people go to and finish college, get married, have kids, achieve a degree of professional success. Another 30 years from that moment, many people are at the end of their lives. They're retiring, some who smoked or did other things are dying of old people diseases.
I believe strongly enough that 15 years is a reasonable copyright term that my book, the graysonian ethic, which I published in 2021, has a note on the legal page releasing it to the public domain 15 years from the first date of publishing, and in jurisdictions where you can't do that, it's licensed under the creative Commons zero license
If I want to own the rights to another book, I can write another book. If I can't make back the money that I spent writing and publishing it in 15 years, then that's a me problem, not a society problem the police can help enforce.
The famous song Happy Birthday left copyright only a couple years ago, and not because it timed out. The song which was written in the era of my great grandparents only lost protection from the largest state in history because after a hundred years no one could keep track of who owned it anymore.
I found one study that found that 100% of people who breathe oxygen die, but I found another study that found that 100% of people who don't breathe oxygen die!
Always has been.
It's one of the reasons why lemmy never really took off until the great reddit migration despite having a decent software product.
Plugs can be more secure, but they also can't.
You don't want plugs to be too secure because they're supposed to be temporary. Plug in fast, unplug fast.
There's a benefit to plugs that come off easily: That's the weakest point. If you kick a cord, the cord doesn't snap, it just comes unplugged. If you make your plug stronger, maybe instead the cable breaks and now you've got lethal voltage swinging around, or you have arcing inside a connector or inside a cable that starts a fire.
There are electrical connections that are more secure used in industry or other places. For example DIN plugs or Brad Harrison connectors.
We're not allowed to have nice things.
It's a normal situation when you have big migrations like the reddit migration. Same thing happened on mastodon with the various twitter migrations.
A lot of people migrate thinking they're reaching the promised land, realize they aren't getting what the want from the new platform and go back. It's the nature of bandwagon jumping.
It's just fine. The process of growth is dynamic, and the people who remain are the ones who like the platform.
Honestly, I've been considering minetest the real successor to minecraft. It's just really decent, and it doesn't have all the risks of minecraft being controlled by someone else including opening the game being gatekept by their centralized servers.
The worst is when the problem is something that will only manifest at scale, so your bosses are going "You should have tested it before putting it in production!" And I'm like "DO YOU THINK I DIDN'T TEST IT BEFORE PUTTING IT IN BLOODY PRODUCTION!?"
It's the internet. Eventually if you're popular enough, some jerk off will say something dumb.
It's cheap and easy to do it! Watch: I'll kill you!
The internet is not your friend.
The increasingly atomized world will not be able to continue for much longer. I fear for what will come next.