Why the heck did nobody yet develop an alternative like we’ve seen with SimCity/City skylines?!

They would make so much money and fuck EA.

Money

Yep. That’s why I stopped distro hopping years ago.

Once set-up it just works™.

The “this would never happen to me” mindset really is cancer to logical thought and reasoning.

I somewhere read (maybe it was thinking fast and slow by Kahneman?) that even psychology students learning about certain behaviors would later anonymously claim they would never fall into these patterns. But plot twist: they are also only human, so of course they also could fall into these patterns.

Another example: People that think they would never fall for a scam. If it is the right scam they will fall even more easily for it than people that know that it could happen.

“Of course it can’t be a scam. Scams are obvious and only idiots fall for them.”

I needed to scroll way too much to see people mention marketing and advertising. It’s a huge deal.

The power of good advertising is not to be underestimated. There is a good statistically proven reason why so much money flows into it. And it’s not only traditional advertising but viral and “astroturfed” advertising.

That’s a strange hill to die on. I mean sure I will also never buy this game but with inflation it’s just a matter of time.

I would much rather have a higher initial cost with no macro transactions in game.

You only need to ask yourself why the PSU manufacturer would bother including the second connector on the same cable if it wasn’t ok to use it.

If you use a third party extension/splitter that would be another story but it doesn’t look that way in the diagram.

Only if you buy a shitty PSU. Quality ones have lots of protection circuits so worst case the PC would randomly shut down in high load situations.

Even then if the manufacturer put two connectors on the end of the cable they made sure to put large enough conductors to handle at least the max load of the connectors specifications. Again if it’s not a shitty no name brand. Probably with a good safety factor as well.

It’s not like 300-400W is that much energy in the grand scheme of things, so thicker wires wouldn’t even be expensive.

What I find really sad is how fast people call others transphobic. Numerous times I’ve even seen trans people being called transphobic.

Sometimes it’s also just people making honest mistakes and sometimes people double down on shitty positions if cornered by an insult like being called a transphob. Is that ok? No but it’s also human nature unfortunately.

But I get it there is a lot of hate especially in recent times where it is a constant topic in the US culture war. And it must be exhausting to see hate in so many places. A lot of actual transphobic people are akso not acting in good faith of course. This just makes me more sad :(

Don’t change that! I need that feature for my workflow

Depends on the author.

Yup it is contrary to normal economic principles, read up on luxury goods and in particular veblen goods and how price finding works there.

In the end humans are not at all times rational. There is no homo economicus. Economics is as much math as it is a social study.

Probably the ancient pong machine my grandfather had.

I can’t resist. I’ve been indoctrinated by my math classes: “A vector is an element of a vector field.”

A bunch of numbers is not immediately a vector. To be a vector you need the defining functions of a vector field also. Like addition and scalar multiplication.

And with crowd strike we have seen how reliable Antivirus is.

A few libraries come to mind immediately: fftw (I think the most widely used fft library) or GMP (I think the most used multi precision library).

Wheel

I mean if your goal is to normalize this then this is the way to go.

I instinctively ignore usernames for some reason. It took me way too long to understand your comment…

Yea spoilers are broken on lemmy. There is no real standard on how to interpret the markdown. That’s why there are multiple flavors of spoilers that each work on a different set of apps / endpoints.

Edit: For example on eternity there was no spoiler in your post