The power of an echo chamber; makes extremism seem logical.

I think it's more than just an echo chamber, it's the community wanting drama more than it wants to help people.

GP probably meant he would've relied on chatgpt instead of the help of a kind user to get the same info, not that he would actually post it here.

Luxury brands do in fact intentionally destroy old stock to make sure their value doesn't drop due to excess supply. I suppose the next step is making everything extremely limited like hypercars?

However hypercars are not purposely limited. It takes an enormous amount of time and labor to build them unlike a handbag where the limit is artificial to sell more.

If you think Piero Ferrari isn't above playing the same games as Bernard Arnault, you're not paying attention.

> However hypercars are not purposely limited

Are you serious? Pricing theory includes both supply and demand, and limiting supply makes the remaining items more valuable by dint of rarity. Companies absolutely limit supply on items to maximize profits. How is this even a question?

Are they harder than ordinary cars?

Singer used to do this, they'd give favorable trade-in deals for old sewing machines so they could be destroyed and kept off the second hand market.

Relevant PhD comics: https://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1911

To play devil's advocate a bit, Ferrari won both championships in 2007 and the constructors in 2008, so it's hard to say they were robbed when they actually won. Massa though, is another story.

They made sure it wouldn’t happen again though

Video format if anyone prefers it: https://youtu.be/EFRUL7vKdU8

It's very likely the comment you replied to said it in a joking sense

It is extremely difficult to tell if the person is joking in a field full of people who think AI is some sort of magic.

While I agree with you, the registry is the windows way of hiding away config files. It's either the GUI, or it's the registry.

Linux alternatively uses config files directly meant to be altered by the end user. It's less user-friendly, but better than the registry.

The real crime is having a registry in the first place instead of a .config directory.

Kinda. I wish they had a standard format for the config file. Instead every file has its own special syntax, sigh

every program has its own unique style of settings; its a little bit of history repeating - see xkcd standards https://xkcd.com/927/

I mean, i'm aware, it still makes for a horrible experience

Yeah I actually miss the days of .ini files. They typically lived in the same directory as the program, so you didn't wind up with gigabytes of leftover tidbits from software you uninstalled or just ran once.

While this is true for simpler games, the author mentions the possibility where we aren't able to hit the target of 60 FPS or whatever, and we get physics spikes on slower computers.