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by trollbridge 3y ago
There was a ThinkPad back in the 1990s which had a removable reflective panel on its LCD, and you could fold it down half-way so you could put it on top of an overhead projector. It was an interesting novelty and fun to use the "transp
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by trollbridge 3y ago
I’m a big fan of them too! That was the closest thing I found to my price point and interestingly was the same chipset (Intel i225 2.5Gb NICs).
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by trollbridge 3y ago
My device ended up with 6x1GbE, 4x2.5GbE, 2x10GbE. Since it’s a general purpose computer (some cheap Xeon plus 64GB RAM plus SSDs), it could perform other workloads too.
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by trollbridge 3y ago
Back in 2009, I ran a project to convert a bunch of paper forms into InfoPath for online forms. After a few months we gave up on InfoPath: - We still had to have paper forms for legally required forms in case someone didn’t have a computer,
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by trollbridge 3y ago
Ultimately, cars and pedestrians need to be kept apart. Cars belong on a mode like a controlled access highway. Pedestrians belong basically everywhere else.
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by trollbridge 3y ago
That’s an excellent set of points. For analogy, people used to smoke on their cars (another very addictive thing), but smoking was not nearly as distracting as smartphone use. Likewise, listening to the radio is habit forming (some people d
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by trollbridge 3y ago
I wanted a switch+router capable of 10 gigabit speeds and everything in the market was expensive. So I got a commodity PC ($400 Dell PowerEdge T30), put Linux on it, and then stuffed it with a 4 port 2.5GbE card (X8 slot, $150), a 2 port 10
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by trollbridge 3y ago
Do you have any free or discounted plans for nonprofits? Monday offers this and one of our nonprofit partners uses it.
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by trollbridge 5y ago
That’s exactly why images tend to be compressed in a YUV colour space instead of an RGB one.
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by trollbridge 5y ago
A lot of California has plenty of water - the northern half. The valley used to just flood periodically. It doesn’t anymore because the water is diverted to cities downstream and used for controlled irrigation upstream. Having Southern Cali
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by trollbridge 5y ago
That assumes there are no other benefits to California of growing alfalfa and hay. Many downstream industries depend on access to hay and growing it may be necessary for soil management.
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by trollbridge 5y ago
Having food is kind of important particularly for very large cities in the desert. You can’t grow food without water.
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by trollbridge 6y ago
I can’t think of any, but it would be trivial to do, just update bitplane 2. On some cards you need to update it during vsync.