Nah it would have cost the city the same regardless, you're just talking about how much the civils business pays its workers.
Most likely this would have been part of a larger project of installing cycle lanes in various places. But it still would have been expensive, civil contractors are notorious.
Yes, these days you might have like 20 devices plugged in, but they're all DC and most only draw about 10W each. Also, they're not all drawing power at the same time.
Back in the day your monitor(s) would have been drawing a lot more power (I'm talking way back with CRT monitors). Also, your PC doesn't draw 750 watts all the time if at all - 750W is the max rating for the power supply. Even if you did have a very power hungry system (read: GPU) it would only draw that while running full whack, most of the time the PC will idle at lower clock speeds and lower power.
Your soldering irons are probably only 25W, certainly less than 100W (unless you're showing off). The big things are generally anything involving heating, but many of the things at your desk probably don't use that much. After heating it's motors. And, again, these things are generally not all on at the same time.
Suffice it to say, there isn't really any higher risk to the volume and type of load we have today than back when electricity was first installed in houses. It certainly should be said that the installations are much safer now than they used to be, where even a faulty install like this shouldn't lead to a fire - if your cable is installed in ducting or kopex then even if a faulty termination heats the cable up there won't be anything in contact with it to start a fire.
But you should still get check these things checked out. The layers of redundancy by design are great, but you don't want holes in the Swiss cheese to line up - that's when bad things happen.
Yeah, that was my impression also. Couple that with the travesty that was 13th Gen overheating and their refusal to even acknowledge it for so long, and I would say AMD are the wiser investment.
Ultimately there isn't that much difference in them for most applications, though. Bigger gains can be had with GPU, SSD and even just moar RAM.
Yeah, assuming a half hour unpaid lunch that's 10 9 hour days, meaning their salary is for a 50 45 hour week. On top of that, the US courts have ruled that unpaid overtime is entirely valid for salaried workers.
Elf girl is bottom left, the artist begins with M. Their comics are really popular on r/comics.
Edit: The artist is called Merrivius https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/elf-comic/list?title_no=983708