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by heelix 6y ago
I had one of the lovely T61s models that did 1600x1200. That machine had a long, long lifespan for a 3+g memory it could support. Miss the 4:3
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by heelix 6y ago
The 3840x2400 16:10 on the new XPS 17" is very nice. It was a substantial increase from the older 15" i9 mac I use for work. Well worth the extra $400 for it over the 1900x1200 version for me.
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by heelix 6y ago
Can confirm Home Depot/Husky did not have a happy ending on one screw. Which Harbor Freight set you pick up? (was getting ready to mix the epoxy for the one screw/bit)
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by heelix 6y ago
I just updated my personal laptop with the dell xps 17 largely because it has a glorious 16:10 screen. My only complaints with the machine is the tiny torx screws on back are very fragile - got an M.2 drive waiting to go in it so I can do
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by heelix 6y ago
Oil temp and vacuum for me. Only 1950's, so not quite WW2 vintage. :P
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by heelix 6y ago
I can't say I've ever seen a time card system that was not hot trash. The more full of enterprise they get, the worst they are.
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by heelix 6y ago
Ah... that answers my real question then. sTR4 will likely be a short lived series.
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by heelix 6y ago
The (bit of) article mentioned 2T, but the thing that was interesting was the 8 channel memory. My current TR4 boards are doing quad, so 2 banks of 4 slots. Sounds like a single set of 8... so wonder if this is a potential BIOS update on
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by heelix 6y ago
Learn a handful of knots. You don't need to know the entire boy scout manual, but solid understanding of 4-5 knots - be it a trucker's hitch (adjustable), improved clinch (fishing/permanent), half hitch, etc - will be the ri
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by heelix 6y ago
You are lucky. I end up doing 2-3 screens a week. Ask any of the typical questions were you to google for interviews for Java/Spring/etc.. you get the same canned answers. Push any practical bits, and there are a lot of people
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by heelix 6y ago
My brother-in-law does fire/crop dusting with a turbine helicopter. My mentality of what an airplane annual should look like is profoundly different then what he considers 'normal maintenance' on what he uses for work. Every
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by heelix 6y ago
I'm looking at what a workstation class machine likely should be, I guess. All things being equal, I'd love there to be no (realistic) upper limit on memory. ECC should have been supported by threadripper too, IMHO. I've o
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by heelix 6y ago
I tend to do much of the phone/person screening at our shop. I'm surprised how many folks try to bluff their way in. You ask a big-O on maps, lists, and the different implementations they will rattle off the (correct) stackoverf
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by heelix 6y ago
They threw a silly amount of RAM in it, so ended up using one of the AMD server CPUs/mainboards rather than a threadripper, since the threadripper could only leverage 256G of RAM. $1200 a stick... woof. I doubt the workload they put
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by heelix 6y ago
I've got a 17" in process -- looks like a 5 week delay for it. Picked up a M2 drive that I'll be adding to turn it into my Linux laptop. Pretty excited to have a good 16:10 screen on something this size, will all sorts of e
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by heelix 6y ago
It gets really easy to miss something like that. I've not missed the landing gear - but something goes a bit sideways and you are out of practice - things get skipped. I've, for example, left the carb heat on when I had to go aro
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by heelix 6y ago
Keep in mind, this is the only part of that elephant I've interacted with. The key things for us were it was transnational and had cross data center replication. You could update a node in data center a, and have it replicate down to
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by heelix 6y ago
Commercial internet does not cost a lot of money. I do a cable modem and while my speeds are a bit slower than the residential option (for the same money) I don't have bandwidth caps or 'talk to the hand' when an issue happe
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by heelix 6y ago
Aviation hardware is absurdly expensive. Not only do you get to pay an A&P to install it but the gadgets are silly expensive. Think we were quoted almost $1800 to add a USB charging port to a C180.
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by heelix 6y ago
The way a pilot's rating works is you get your private pilot license which is the same as a driver's license for most 'general aviation' planes. In those, you are required to demonstrate stall and engine out recovery as
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by heelix 6y ago
It takes less than 10 minutes to attach or detach the wings on my experimental. Many of them are designed to fit into a trailer and be 'assembled' at the airport, and then hauled back home after. There are three bolts holding on
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by heelix 6y ago
Dairy Queen does something similar. Our dog does the same thing with the pup cups of soft serve they hand out.
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by heelix 6y ago
Same. The stock fan on the 3900x was a bit noisy - spinning up and down all the time. Replaced it with a closed loop water cooler after a couple weeks.
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by heelix 6y ago
XP64, if you had hardware that had drivers, was amazing. Drop it into classic mode and you essentially had a workstation (Ala Windows) version of Server 2003.
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by heelix 6y ago
Not a huge change - a smile rather than a tut when I hear the distinctive sound. The BWCA is a protected area where they really try to keep the water clean. Folks have cabins near the area (heck, some day I'd like a cabin up there) a
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by heelix 6y ago
Same think was driving me nuts in the BWCA, camping in areas where there should not be any engines. Came back all salty that someone must have a gas powered well or something. Outfitter said I should find a recording of a horny grouse...
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by heelix 6y ago
https://goo.gl/maps/aF44Afshj81FLvLw6 If you look at the aerial view, you can spot the neighbors homes that did not make it and the edge of the city dike now in the back yard. Many houses flooded. Heartbreaking when
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by heelix 6y ago
The sacks were pretty easy to order. You would have a dump truck come out and leave a pile of sand on the driveway. From there, you basically shovel/fill sacks like mad and either place them on your wall or put them someplace heated.
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by heelix 6y ago
https://i.imgur.com/BlUJxIj.jpg Was my parent's home. We were south of Fargo, outside of the city dike. Fargo is very, very flat farmland. Our house was 40' above the river. The top of the city dike was around
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by heelix 6y ago
Even longer - I remember seeing one circle over the 2009 Fargo flood while we were sand bagging.

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