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This just in: Elon Musk being investigated for fixing the price of eggs.

https://www.realcanadiansuperstore.ca/en/grade-a-extra-large-eggs/p/20812726001_EA?source=nspt

$4.63 CAD ($3.20 USD) for a dozen extra large eggs currently.

“shutupshutupshutupeggpricesshutupshutupshutUP!”

Canada needs to keep adding such surcharges until Trump apologizes for threatening to make Canada the 51st state and US congress enshrines into law that tariffs cannot be used as an economic weapon against Canada without 60%+ approval of congress. The penalty for the POTUS doing this to be immediate loss of position, pending trial.

I use a 100% cotton bath mat. About twice the thickness of a towel with a non-slip bottom. Gets hung to dry between showers. You can pick them up at Ikea for cheap.

The government IS the test run.

If you had the only Snowflake server, you’d have a point; the difference is that with Snowflake, a user can connect to a random consumer IP instead of a more limited set of bridge IPs that all look like bridge IPs when scanned.

Your Snowflake server won’t look like anyone else’s snowflake server.

After 8 months of filling out job applications and going to first, second and third interviews (even ones where they flew me in), only to be told I was one of two finalists for the position or that the position had been cancelled, I cold pitched myself via LinkedIn to the people in the department of a company I wanted to work in. THEN I filled out a job application. Did this at three separate places and they all had offers for me within a week of each other, and I took the one I liked the best.

Sounds like a new target for timing attacks?

Proportional representation?

The main point is that with a regular backup regime, it doesn’t matter if SSD will lose your data if unpowered for a long time… because a) they won’t be unpowered for a long time (there’s rotation happening here, not archival), and b) you’ll have already hopefully moved off any specific piece of media before MTBF, and if you haven’t, hopefully all your devices don’t fail at exactly the same time.

So yeah: SSD isn’t for archival purposes. But archival isn’t really what we’re after here, as backup of ALL data is a possibility. It’s not like we have a monk or vellum shortage to worry about.

This is one beer a day from Moosehead. If all the other breweries release a similar crate, you’ll be able to float along merrily until Jan 2029.