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sn0wf1re··on US annual inflation declines to 7.7% in October vs. 7.9% expected
The Canadian government provides a personal inflation calculator. You may see higher or lower personal inflation than CPI. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020cal...
sn0wf1re··on Silicon innovation and custom ASICs at Amazon [pdf]
It seems the hyperscalers are more in favour of shreding their hardware rather than putting it for sale on ebay. But I'm not sure if this holds true, I have seen old Google servers on /r/homelab.
sn0wf1re··on Nvidia’s hot adapter for the GeForce RTX 4090 with a built-in breaking point
If they were aware of the risks/problem then I do not think it is unfair punishment. We as a society need to have a stronger response to companies choosing profits over safety.
sn0wf1re··on California pledges to cut use of the Colorado river
> The best method is when the rich get water and the poor don't?

Give each citizen / resident a basic water allowance that they don't need to pay for (or do it by tax rebate) and charge high prices for usage above that. If rich people can afford to pay prices that would be comparable to desalinating water and trucking it to their house, let them have a lawn. This is how Carbon taxing in Canada works, everyone pays X% and it is offset for poorer people by giving them money several times per year (some provinces give an equal money to each person rather than based on income).

> When rain falls on my land, who do I pay, and how much? What about water from an aquifer?

Some places already don't let you keep rainwater without a licence and the government has the right to see how much and what you are doing with said water. Similarly for aquifers, put a meter on it, big fines if you get caught bypassing the meter.

> If I decide to dam all the water from leaving my land, is that okay?

Nope. Not only is this hoarding of resources you might not have legal right to possess (see above about rainwater), but depending on the size of your reservoir it can pose a safety risk to those downstream.

> Can Colorado decide to dam divert the entire Colorado River from reaching downstream?

There is the Colorado river treaty that legally prevents this. From a practical standpoint it ridiculous.

sn0wf1re··on Why we moved from AWS RDS to Postgres in Kubernetes
>> I bet you also hate on people making their own espresso instead of just going to starbucks

>This is just unnecessary.

I agree the ad hominem is not required, although the analogy is itself decent.

sn0wf1re··on AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
That would be confusing. The HTTP response code should not be conflated with the application's state.
sn0wf1re··on EVGA terminates Nvidia partnership [video]
Car dealerships don't do significant product modifications like GPU integrators. Unless you consider an undercoat or bedliner to be significant modifications.
sn0wf1re··on Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box
Simultaneously washing and drying clothes while cooking a turkey in the oven, brussel sprouts in the toaster-oven, boiling water for tea, distracting the children with a computer or tv, doing some welding in the garage, and powering a bunch of Christmas lights. --- This is something that actually happened one year. It is much easier to use a big wire and a big breaker/fuse to the house than to have the power go out.
sn0wf1re··on Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California and its social fabric
Parts of Nevada are below sea level so the total energy expenditure to move water should be "minimal". This would be after making aqueducts. My thinking is, if the Romans could move water over mountains without pipes, so too can the Americans.
sn0wf1re··on Moderna says Omicron-containing booster outperforms current vaccine
Sure, but why not "Omicron-aware" or something less alarmist?
sn0wf1re··on Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992)
This is false. Incredibly so in the western provinces.
sn0wf1re··on Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management
Personally I just use Keycloak as the backend(storing the user and group information). I provision it with terraform since I find it easier to use than the webUI.
sn0wf1re··on End the Streaming Struggle with Plex
There is a Jellyfin Client for Apple TV, SwiftFin[1]. Even though it is in beta it seems to work really well.

[1] https://github.com/jellyfin/swiftfin

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