> It means you are always facing a fair challenge.
You'd think that, but no.
From my experience in overwatch, the system tends to favor win and loss streaks instead.
You'll get 4-5 wins in a row, where the enemy team had no chance. Then 4-5 losses where your team was hopelessly outclassed.
Maybe you'll get a couple of games that are close and feel fair. But not many.
Outlook is very slow for me, but I only use it on my work laptop.
Thunderbird is almost as slow, and that's on my own desktop.
Even something simple like mousing over emails in the list is slow - there is a noticable delay between the mouse reaching each email, and the grey highlight.
* blocking other programs using desktop integration for file dialogs: latency of several minutes, sometimes dialogs never appear.
That's a Chrome/Chromium thing. Often, if I try to open the Nvidia control panel, it will not appear until I close Chrome.
I've had something similar happen with rpcs3 (a ps3 emulator) - only with that, it wouldn't start compiling shaders until Chrome was closed. They continued just fine after reopening it.
That is showing the raw numbers - they aren't adjusted for vaccinated/unvaccinated population sizes. ~53 million people have had at least one shot, and there are around 6 million children under 10 (so not counted in the figures you linked). With a population of about 68 million total, the unvaccinated all causes figures should be about 16% of the ever vaccinated.
The ratio should skew further in older age ranges, as a higher proportion of those were vaccinated.
> That is a silly situation I agree. But it's a situation that perpetuates in part because too many contractors tolerate it.
A sizeable proportion of contractors I used to work with simply removed themselves from the market when the changes were introduced.
Many of them retired early, and one retrained as a plasterer.
I only tolerate it because I have a mortgage to pay. I'm not willing to take a 50% pay cut to go perm, or a ~20% pay cut for the few contracts outside IR35 that I'm offered. The rates on those used to be significantly higher than before the changes.
Speaking to a lot of recruiters over the last few years, we have noticed wage compression in the market. The bottom end has been brought up quite substantially, the top end has dropped.
Being inside IR35 I now take home less pay, have less flexibility, and I pay less tax (because rates have gone down across the board without the upward pressure that existed in the old system). Who wins? Only my employer.
Electricity demands can't be met without gas power plants. As there is sufficient demand (able to absorb the price at the moment, however high it may be), electricity prices converge on gas prices + generation costs (and some profits, probably).
The only way to unpeg it from the price of gas (without changing the market itself) would be for demand of electricity to drop below levels that necessitate gas power plants, or for supply of gas to increase to surplus levels.
> run into a bug in a provider that really ruins your day
Most of these problems I encounter aren't even down to hashi themselves. The GCP provider consumes from google's magic modules repo, which is often out of sync with the GCP API. Or in plenty of cases, it is in sync, but the API does not expose features in the same way as the console.