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  • I doubt it.
    Tripping over a cable is as likely to damage the socket as it is to rip the cable out of the plug.
    Any appliance that increases risk by being unplugged should probably not be using a consumer connection…

    I think the 3 pin layout caused a lot of headaches, and the integrated fuse required a user-servicable plug.
    So it would have to be a split-shell design of some type, where the appliance cable would have to be cable-gripped to the same part as the plug/socket pins.
    Thus, a bottom-entry (heh) cable grip and a removable back plate that can only be unscrewed when it’s unplugged.
    This was all in a time of bakelite. Plastic wasn’t flexible.

    But no, I think tripping over an early bakelite g-type (I think it’s officially a g-type) plug cable would likely shatter the plug and pull the pins out of the socket… If it didn’t also damage the socket.












  • Excel is often used by people that don’t know what a database is, and you end up with thousands of rows of denormalised data just waiting for typos or extra white spaces to fuck up the precarious stack of macros and formulae. Never mind the update/insert anomalies and data corruption waiting to strike.

    I have a passionate hate for Excel, but I understand that not everyone is willing to learn more robust data processing


  • Maybe Ukraine couldn’t retake the areas occupied by Russia, but they could deliver a Pyrrhic blow to Kremlin.

    They have delivered a pyrrhic victory.
    Russia thought they could take Kyiv (Ukraine?) on 3 days.
    The fact that Ukraine has resisted so hard, have redefined the modern battlefield, have conducted huge deep strikes…
    Ukraine is winning.

    The reason Ukraine may not be “winning” is because the Russian war machine is huge. Like really really big.
    The reason that Ukraine is “winning” is because the Russian war machine is outdated and corrupt.

    The western opinion of Russia has been devastated. Russia tested themselves, and failed.
    Russia is holding on by their nukes.