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Hi all - I have an office workstation with a Dell U2723QE as my primary screen. I currently keep my 14" M3 MBP sitting to the side on a stand as an auxiliary monitor, but I'd like to replace that with a second, vertical monitor. I'd like to daisy-chain the second monitor to my Dell, and then move my MBP out of the picture entirely (will probably keep it closed in a vertical stand, and connected via USB-C to the Dell for charging).

Any recommendations? I guess I have to stick with Dell if I want to daisy-chain via MST, but what works best for a vertical monitor? Should I target a 24" vs a 27"? I need something north of 1080p, but is 4k overkill? Budget isn't a constraint. Primary use case wi

A bit of a Hail Mary here for the community - my wife has a nice violin originally purchased from Moennig and Son in Philadelphia. Our instrument insurer is unhappy that the original appraisal on the instrument is over 20 years old now; we have the original appraisal and provenance note from the shop, but folks in the community probably recall that they've been closed for over a decade now, and we don't live in the area anymore even if they could offer a new one.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a luthier or shop in the Denver area (or anyone within a half-day's drive) that would be able to offer an updated appraisal? I've been turned away by a surprising number of local shops.

Hi all, this is a re-post from here since I didn't get any response.

What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

On the gaming side, I mostly play AAA FPS and 4X games. I also hope to use it for some productivity work - mostly AI model training. I mostly work with PINNs, deep CNNs and FNOs... for any serious model training I can grab resources on LambdaLabs or GCP, but it's super helpful to have a local dev machine for training an epoch or two to make sure things are working as expected! My models are

I've been messing around with the idea of replacing my ~10-year old gaming desktop which is gathering dust in my office, and after seeing my GCP bill the past few months for how much I spend on medium-sized accelerators, I can definitely justify investing a bit of money here.

On the gaming side, I mostly play AAA FPS and 4X games (would love to play Starfield but my aging 4th-gen i5 + 4060 build can't really cut it) and on the AI/DL side I mostly work with PINNs, deep CNNs and FNOs... for any serious model training I can grab resources on LambdaLabs or GCP, but it's super helpful to have a local dev machine for training an epoch or two to make sure things are working as expected! Main reas

Is anyone familiar with a digital archive that collects edited parts? For example - most folks are probably familiar with the International Music Score Library Project, which hosts digital copies of non-copyright scores, orchestral parts, and recordings, but it's a crap-shoot whether or not a given part has useful edits or annotations (usually you'd try to find the highest quality vanilla copy available). However, you may not be aware that the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives includes digital copies of fingered/edited parts by musicians from the ensemble - an absolute treasure trove of info for when you're studying scores or wor

Hi all,

Some of you may have noticed that this forum is getting a very large volume of posts about degree and career options for aspiring meteorologists. (sometimes two or three times per day). There is a strong roster of informed individuals and professionals who offer great insight and coaching to these inquiries, but the content is very repetitive.

With the mods' blessing, would anyone here be willing to help crank out a simple FAQ post that could be pinned to the forum until college decisions season is over? My thought is that we would cover the main topics:

1. What is a meteorology degree and how is it different than environmental sciences, geography, physics, or math?
2. What is req

I was lucky enough to snag a C40 from a local dealer's allocation in early April, with expected delivery in early June. Unfortunately I just heard from the dealer that this original vehicle (which we were expecting to be delivered to the dealer as early as this coming week) was cancelled.

The dealer presumably found an alternate, identical vehicle in port, but it's not obvious when delivery will happen - certainly won't be for at least another month.

Has anyone received a vehicle after a cancellation? I've got a Polestar 2 on standby that's ready to drive away but I do not want to sit on that reservation and deny someone else the car if there's any hope of seeing my C40. But at the same ti

Thanks to a new job title/promotion, I'm upgrading my work setup from my old 2010 MacBook Pro + Apple LED Cinema Display (the mini-Displayport one - no Thunderbolt!) to center around a 2016 MacBook Pro, and I'm in the market for a new monitor. I love my old Cinema Display - it's 27" of beauty, and it makes my daily coding/research tasks so much easier given its huge amount of real estate.

But unfortunately, it seems utterly incompatible with the new MacBook Pro (2016). It doesn't have Thunderbolt, so Apple's adapter is out of the question. Several docks seem to exist that extend mini-DP, but they seem to get very mixed reviews. So, given my budget, I'd rather just buy a monitor.

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