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I don't know, how many? Notably, US electric sockets have been redesigned so that children can't stick paperclips into them anymore. They've been required sinc

I don't know, how many? Notably, US electric sockets have been redesigned so that children can't stick paperclips into them anymore. They've been required since 2008: https://www.esfi.org/what-is-a-tamper-resistant-receptacle/ https://www.esfi.org/what-is-a-tamper-resistant-receptacle/ But maybe they should've been left as-is so adolescents and adults wouldn't lick bare 220v wires.

ethbr0 4y ago
> I don't know, how many? More than 2,280 per year? At a cost of 12 child fatalities. [0] And I'm aware of expanding electrical code requirements, every time I have to deal with a tamper-resistant outlet or AFCI over-exuberance with an unhappy motor. Or spill-proof gas can nozzles. My point being -- there's a optimal balance between efficiency and safety, and it's not "zero accidents, ever." And you quip, but getting a 120v pop as a kid certainly made me respect thoroughness in ensuring circuits and components are depowered before work and being extremely careful working on live wires. Absent my "accident" I would not have had that caution, and the consequences working on subsequent higher-amp systems would have been more serious. [0] https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/Fire-causes-and-risks/Top-fire-causes/Electrical/Tamper-resistant-electrical-receptacles https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/Fire-causes-and-risks/...