No bank in Australia offers fixed rates for the lifetime of a mortgage.
The most I've found is 5 years, and those rates are closer to 5%.

Where are you borrowing from that has this magical rate and terms?

It's also US only (actually blocks you otherwise based on IP), which is refreshing! Even if I accidentally click a link it won't work.

Progressives don't have a problem with police union collective bargaining for salary/benefits/etc.

They have a problem with police cover-up culture and everything that goes along with it, of which many police unions actively perpetuate and support.

Gross generalisation, but:
An OSHA investigation is welcomed by trade unions.
An IA investigation is blocked as much as possible by police unions.

You could do 3 minutes of research as opposed to spouting off things.

This is an optimised API for readonly access to 4kb compressed files, usually textures. It does this by changing how it pipelines the reads and by using the GPU to decompress and load automatically into GPU memory without having to go through the CPU.

The base windows file apis do what they should do for the 95+% of normal use cases, including concurrent reads etc.

From https://github.com/microsoft/D...

"DirectStorage is a feature intended to allow games to make full use of high-speed storage (such as NVMe SSDs) that can can deliver multiple gigabytes a second of small (eg 64kb) data reads with minimal CPU overhead. Although it is possible to saturate a drive using traditional ReadFile-based IO the CPU overhead of increases non-linearly as the size of individual reads decreases. Additionally, most games choose to store their assets compressed on disk in order to reduce the install footprint, with these assets being decompressed on the fly as load time. The CPU overhead of this becomes increasingly expensive as bandwidth increases."

Why can't they?

They SHOULDN'T, but they obviously can since they hold the keys to the wallets. If they can reassign your crypto to someone else on your behalf when you "sell" it, they can reassign it to themselves.

- install ubuntu that's a 2 years old and isn't an LTS
- ***throttle your downloads for apt-get so that no one on your network would notice the data usage***
- - Windows defaults that to 2.6 Mbps so do that. Mbps, not MBps
- turn your machine on and use it for 2 hours
- turn it off

You're telling me that it would fully update and upgrade to the latest release?

Did you read the summary let alone the article?

No where does it discuss 8 hours of down time.

8 hours of ONLINE time in order to background download the patches without disrupting their net connection if you're not using a local SCCM patch server.
If your users only turn on their desktops for an hour or two a day (eg light admin usage) and then turn them off they might never get patched fully.

The same exact thing will happen with RHEL if you don't patch it for 1.5 years and then pull down patches in a throttled manner. It may take 8 hours to pull them down. If you're running a linux desktop for an hour or two a day and throttle your patch downloads it may never actually pull them all down as well.

Reading comprehension people.

"You can work to ensure that more devices across your organization meet the minimum Update Connectivity measurement by communicating with device owners, encouraging them to leave their devices plugged in and connected—instead of powering them off overnight—so that updates can download and install properly"

I don't think that's convoluted at all.

Given that sqlserver now supports ubuntu as a first class hosting platform, and new dotnet versions also have linux as a primary target, Oracle doesn't even sew up the linux market, especially when they want you to run their own distribution.

Also linux sqlserver supports docker, which makes integration testing and batch operations crazy easy even if you primarily live in a windows world.

They can all run at the rated speed.

Some can run faster than the speed on the box, and do so automagically when it can.

Exactly, wasn't this the whole green-threads vs native threads thing?

Having the "display stuff" computer crash is much different than having the computer that controls ABS/STC, fuel injection, etc crash.

So a carbureted car from the 70s? And most likely pre 1975?

I would guess that the EUA application is not something you can whip out in 10 minutes.

You have to realise you're in the 1% market.

Most people want headphone for music, calls (video or audio only) and watching stuff like netflix. That's all.

And for most people bluetooth works in cars with few issues, and no one wants to plug in unless it's for android auto/carplay

The entire point is that you CANNOT perceive it, so your brain translates it into a single smoother flowing image. Essentially if anything on any screen moves more than 1 pixel per refresh then a higher refresh rate will look smoother to your eye, even if (and actually because) you cannot see the individual frames.

This is obvious when scrolling through a document rapidly, or making a huge snap sweep left to right in a game. It may not help you be more accurate (agree that you're not seeing each individual frame), but it really does look smoother.

It's just like audio. You can perceive up to 20khz, so the lowest anything records is 44khz to avoid aliasing.

Hope that makes sense.