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The piezo beeper is between a positive rail and ground. Normally the positive rail leading to it is switched off, so no current flows through the beeper. When it’s supposed to beep, somewhere on the circuit a relay or transistor (or a pin on a microcontroller, but that just means a transistor inside the microcontroller) provides current to the rail, which takes the path of least resistance through the beeper into ground, which causes it to beep. The current then flows to ground where it effectively dissipates.

When the beeper is removed, all that happens when it’s supposed to beep is that the rail is switched on, but since there’s no path to ground through it, (practically) no electrons flow into it. While it is theoretically possible to design a circuit that would blow up when this happens, in practice it won’t ever be the case for low voltage electronics like this.

A helpful analogy is to think of electricity as water flowing through pipes, the piezo puzzer as a little water wheel, and the buzzer toggle switch as a valve. If you open the valve, water flows through the pipe and spins the water wheel. Remove the water wheel and plug the pipe next to it, and when the valve is opened all that happens is that the pipe fills with water up to the plug and then stops flowing.

It’s mad scientist Hououin Kyouma.

For a lot of series I feel exactly the opposite. You spend 5 minutes reading a chapter and then weeks or months waiting for the next one. The moment-to-moment pacing is often much better in anime adaptations.

The bigger problem is that a lot of manga/novel series run on forever so the anime adaptation has no chance of ever finishing the story. This doesn’t really have anything to do with the medium and is more about the way this stuff tends to get serialized in Japan incentivizing authors to never wrap their stories up.

Why?

Look at the amount of 0 to 10 star github repos that are open source and had no commits since ever.

Plenty, possibly most, of those do exactly what they were built to do and nothing more or less. I have a couple of dozen such repos myself.

I expect this gap will be filled by cheaper models like GLM as they catch up to frontier models in their capabilities.

Most hand-coded projects are “abandoned” within months of release, but this often happens because the project is done, not because the project outgrew the capabilities of the LLM and the vibecoder is too incompetent to fix the accrued technical debt themselves.