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Hello all, hopefully quick question regarding TFSA limits.

I only started contributing to a TFSA last year and I know I didn't hit my years limit, most of my savings contributions go towards my RRSPs.

My wife has never contributed to a TFSA.

How do I go about calculating how much we each can contribute at this point? I understand that I can still contribute the remainder of my last years limit, but how far back does that go?

Thanks!

I'm wondering if there is a built in way to set a variable, in a sort of override type setting. Similar to how you specify a default for a variable in a function definition, eg: def foo(myvar="blah"):

I basically want to set some config vars before triggering an external job and i have 3 levels of variable/overrides.

is there a built in way to do this:

foo = os.environ['foo'] or config['some']['path']['foo'] or config['default']['foo'] 

in essence: set foo to the environment variable 'foo' and if that isn't defined, try and set it to config['some']['path']['foo'] and if that isn't present, just use a default.

I can write a function to do this, but I just wanted to see if this

So there are some companies out there that are generally just terrible overall, and some that are big enough that they are hard to avoid and extra horrible(looking at you Nestle). But every once in a while a few smaller ones popup showing just how horrible they or their owners are.

Uline (https://twitter.com/mike2600/status/1001475430535360512?lang=en) have shown their owners to be terrible, hateful people.

Hobby Lobby, Chick-fil-A, also owned by some extreme right wing christians who push hateful policies.

I've known MyPillow has been pretty right-wing pro-Trump for a while, but this latest round of terrible from their

Through the console i can add a Topic based S3 bucket notification event, and it asks for a friendly name, the Event types, a prefix/suffix, and where to send the event. When i look at the notification config on the bucket via cli i see those same bits and the friendly name appears in an Id field.

I'm trying to add some additional events via cloudformation. I can add new event notifications, but for the life of me i can't figure out how to populate the friendly name, cloudformation is creating a guid for that. I'm just trying to understand if that is by design or if i'm just not seeing the right things in the docs?

Here's an example of how i'm defining one of these currently(without the fr

Hello All,

I've got a co-worker who returned to her home town for a funeral of a close family member and was exposed to someone with Covid-19. As such she and her family have been forced into quarantine in that remote region(far from her home).

My catholic family would be likely to say something along the lines of "I'm praying for you and your family" or such. Even though this co-worker is Hindu(i think, coworker is in India), the intent of that phrase would be understood as compassionate and caring.

I'm looking for suggestions for some good ways that I(as an athiest) can portray the same type of compassionate message, without bringing religion into the mix.

Thanks!

so with the fed cutting interest rate again, a lot of folks believe we are heading into a recession. What industries tend to do better in this kind of market?

trying to dynamically build a string to reference a key in a dictionary. As a simplified example i need to use the value in myvar to build a string that will reference the key in a dictionary. given the below data:

  vars:
    resources_facts:
      foo-test:
        name: "foo"
        moof: "moof"
      blah-test:
        name: "blah2"
        moof: "moof2"
    myvar: "blah"

I can do this in two steps, set a fact like this:

myvarname: "{{  myvar + '-test' }}"

and then use like this:

resourcename: : "{{ resources_facts[myvarname]['moof'] }}"

That works, but is there a way to do that in one step? Is there a way to do more complicated things i

As part of a past employers ESPP/Bonus stock program, I've got some shares of a US Stock in a brokerage account tied to that past employer. The stock does pay a regular quarterly dividend but I can't really do anything with it in that account. Because it's tied to the employer through a group plan it doesn't cost me anything to leave my shares there(just a standard transaction fee if i sell those shares), but i also can't setup a drip or buy any other shares with those dividends(in that account).

I've got my primary RRSP/TFSA's in Questrade and was considering just wire transferring the US cash from my dividends to one of my Questrade accounts as USD and then i could purchase some US based

I'm looking to build an outfeed/assembly table with a torsion box top.

Is the alignment style inside a torsion box going to make much difference to the overall strength and rigidity of the box?

Hey folks, looking for suggestions for managing access to windows instances in a non domain environment. Specifically around granting and maintaining rdp access other than username/password. is there any way more akin to ssh public key style auth options for rdp?

I need to stand up a number of isolated/disconnected windows 2016 based systems and need to grant access to 10-20 people. I'd really prefer not to have to manually manage passwords for these folks if possible. Are there certificate based options available?

I've got to scan a couple thousand machines. Every once in while i encounter one with a full disk or something else that causes it to report as unreachable. I'm collecting some data from each host and appending to a local file on the machine running the playbook. Is there a way to have a task in my playbook that only executes for hosts that were unreachable? I just want to be able to dump the inventory_hostname to a file so i can go back and remediate the failures later.

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Thanks!

I'm curious if anyone here has used or evaluated ElectricFlow for managing CI/CD releases? Or If anyone has recommendations for something similar? The one piece that appeals in my case is it seems to allow a higher level abstraction of the release process as a whole, rather than focusing solely on deploying code/artifacts.

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I have a need to add a few more switch ports and would like to take this as an opportunity to both replace a couple of small unmanaged switches with a more powerful/capable router + switch combo. I've got a 1Gb/100Mb internet connection coming in, and am looking at mainly a pair of options. At a high level i want to basically keep my existing single subnet "home" network as is, but add an internally routed "server" network and a non-routed "dmz" style network to expose a couple vms externally. These new networks will become the bones of my homelab i want to start building, just for playing and learning.

The two main options i've been mulling over are thus:

1. Mikrotik Hex + CSS326-24G-2S+R