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Connectors come loose, which makes them dangerous.

They are uninsulated points that allow water and material ingress, and can partially or fully pull apart, causing arching. Which can cause combustion.

This is the main reason these are dangerous, which the majority of this entire thread misses. The added length or connector resistance is somewhat negligible here unless you're daisy chaining long conductors, which often isn't the case for in-home extensions.

Distance by itself would be no different than a single cord of the same length.

However, connection points are areas of localized resistance where connectors meet. This can introduce dangerous areas.

That said, those aren't really the problem here:

The practical, human, problem here is important. Connectors come loose, which makes them dangerous. The majority of this thread is treating this question like a paper test problem, when in reality there are other factors that outweigh the "under ideal circumstances" problem.

Is it just me or is anyone else perturbed that the cable sizes in this infographic are all the same gauge?

If you're not willing to engage in good faith, intelligent, discussion, please consider leaving the platform and making it a better place for the rest of us.

"I couldn't be assed to read the article nor understand the problem, but I will assert my God given right to an ignorant opinion on it regardless"

Isn't what this platform needs.

Yes, but accepting the pardon is an admission of guilt, which may have other consequences.

Unfortunately it won't, assuming Lemmy grows.

Lemmy doesn't get targeted by bots because it's obscure, you don't reach much of an audience and you don't change many opinions.

It has, conservatively, ~0.005% (Yes, 0.005%, not a typo) of the monthly active users.

To put that into perspective, theoretically, $1 spent on a Reddit has 2,000,000x more return on investment than on Lemmy.

All that needs to happen is that number to become more favorable.

Heuristics, data analysis, signal processing, ML models...etc

It's about identifying artificial behavior not identifying artificial text, we can't really identify artificial text, but behavioral patterns are a higher bar for botters to get over.

The community isn't in a position to do anything about it the platform itself is the only one in a position to gather the necessary data to even start targeting the problem.

I can't target the problem without first collecting the data and aggregating it. And Lemmy doesn't do much to enable that currently.

You don't analyze the text necessary, you analyze the heuristics, behavioral patterns, sentiment....etc It's data analysis and signal processing.

You, as a user, probably can't. Because you lack information that the platform itself is in a position to gather and aggregate that data.

There's a science to it, and it's not perfect. Some companies keep their solutions guarded because of the time and money required to mature their systems & ML models to identify artificial behavior.

But it requires mature tooling at the very least, and Lemmy has essentially none of that.

Well, yes, but let's not be intentionally obtuse eh?

"Harm" in this case refers to the seasoning (polymer layer), which takes time and effort to repair if it's significantly damaged.

In the same way that scratching a wood floor is harming it (you can just resurface it), or denting your drywall is harm (you can just repair it).

Two things can be true you know.

That's... Largely a financials problem.

Steam: $8-10 billion/y

GOG: $80-120 million/y

Steam can throw 10 GOGs worth of resources at a problem and barely break a sweat. Yeah, of course they are making huge strides, that's how consolidation of wealth works when that wealth is actually reinvested.