Going to also echo the comment that this isn't an RTS
Yep. RTS is a context where the principles are more true.
In real life you aren’t in a 1-1 matchup with competitive success criteria.
OK, hear me out over here:
We are not in an RTS.
Edit: in real-world settings lacking redundancy tends to make systems incredibly fragile, in a way that just rarely matters in an RTS. Which we are _not in_.
And as for the money analogy, what's the idea there, that memory grows interest? Or that it's better to put your money in the bank and leave it there, as opposed to buy assets or stocks, and of course, pay for food, rent, and stuff you enjoy?
1. Store your money in a 0% interest account—leave RAM totally unused—or put it in an account that actually generates some interest—fill the RAM with something, anything that might be useful.
2. Store your money buried in your backyard or put it in a bank account? If you want to actually use your money, it's already loaded into the bank.
Imperfect analogies because money is fungible. In either case though, money getting spent day-to-day (e.g. the memory being used by running programs) is separate.
Because wanting to utilize something as much as you can to get your money's worth, and wanting to fully exhaust it as a resource are two different things.
Why do you even need RAM when you could run everything from your HDD with much cheaper cost/MB.
(Weird side question: are you by any chance the Jason Farnon who wrote IBFT?)
Yes, generally. That's the entire idea behind the stock market.
For slightly different reasons. My game drive is using about 900 GB out of 953 GB usable space - because while I have a fast connection, it's nicer to just have stuff available.
Same for some projects where we need to interface with cloud APIs to fetch data - even though the services are available and we could pull some of the data on demand, sometimes it's nicer to just have a 10 TB drive and to pull larger datasets (like satellite imagery) locally, just so that if you need to do something with it in a few weeks, you won't have to wait for an hour.
