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Re:Houston is experiencing its third ‘500-year’ flood in 3 y... by dTal on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @08:20PM (#15128738)
Sounds like an effective, cheap solution would be water butts on every gutter.
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Re:Houston is experiencing its third ‘500-year’ flood in 3 y... by Piskvorrr on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:31AM (#15139800)
Up to a point. To continue the bandwidth analogy, having a buffer is cheap - unless the input link fills it faster than the output link can handle, for a prolonged period. The buffer gives you some extra time for processing, but when it fills, you are back to step 1.
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