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Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by nivethan »

latentcall wrote: post #94

Younger me thinks this is really awesome. This was my DREAM during Halo 2 years. Kudos. The design, the hardware, the room itself. The house is beautiful. The pictures and write ups are fantastic. Feel free to ignore the next part of my comment: Current me with lived experiences and knowledge of the world thinks it’s a little disgusting. I don’t think it’s your fault, or you’re intending to do that. I don’t think YOU…

> I wouldn’t feel right with myself if I didn’t say something.

Many people live with not feeling right with themselves.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by TheAceOfHearts »

kentonv wrote: post #60
echoangle wrote: post #56

This is so cool. But the keyboard disturbed me, wouldn’t you at least want a mechanical keyboard? > Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired — The world's cheapest keyboard at $13 a pop. Works perfectly fine for all gaming needs. I can’t imagine playing stuff like overwatch on a membrane office keyboard for $13 when having spent more than 100k on the setup. Especially when cheap mechanical keyboards are not that much more expen…

Honestly I've never felt it made any difference to me when gaming. I would never code on such a keyboard but for the old WASD it seems fine. That said, guests are welcome to bring any peripherals they want. There's a USB hub at each station to plug stuff in.

I guess it depends on what sort of games you're playing, but isn't it possible for the lack of n-key rollover to be a problem? My understanding is that many of these keyboards fail to register inputs if too many keys are pressed at the same time.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by slumberlust »

r1ch wrote: post #102

How did you deal with the length of the USB and display cables? I thought after 5m or so things would start falling apart. Are there active extenders and can they can handle 240+ Hz?

Not OP, but he website addresses this: https://lanparty.house/#cable-latency

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by laidoffamazon »

tptacek wrote: post #105
laidoffamazon wrote: post #62

This is neat, but as a $NET shareholder and someone with another ~$1m in net worth that can't afford to buy a house for at least another 6 years this makes me think we should significantly increase taxation.

If you can't afford to buy a house, what you want is zoning reform, not increased taxation. (I want both, but I don't want more taxes to solve the housing problem, because they won't.)

I want both too, but neither is going to happen in the next 4-12 years so I can only fantasize about punitive measures

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by redman25 »

latentcall wrote: post #94

Younger me thinks this is really awesome. This was my DREAM during Halo 2 years. Kudos. The design, the hardware, the room itself. The house is beautiful. The pictures and write ups are fantastic. Feel free to ignore the next part of my comment: Current me with lived experiences and knowledge of the world thinks it’s a little disgusting. I don’t think it’s your fault, or you’re intending to do that. I don’t think YOU…

Normally, I’d be equally upset with excess but the fact that this is somewhat of a community building thing is actually refreshing to see from the wealthy (even if by community, it is just friends).

It’s mild in comparison to the ultra rich. Jeff bezos, Larry Ellison, and Elon musk have more wealth than half of America. That fact is what we should truly be upset about. In comparison this is a drop on the ocean.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by crooked-v »

cluckindan wrote: post #89
crooked-v wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Housing price issues in the US are fundamentally the result of every major city making it expensive or impossible to actually build enough housing. Changing taxes (in either direction) really wouldn't move the needle at all. What's needed are local zoning changes and significant revamps of permitting and approval processes to remove endless discretionary roadblocks from anyone who doesn't like medium density housing.

No. The global housing crisis is the result of international organised crime owning or operating most of the large construction conglomerates, using real estate as a fiat currency to wash the proceeds from all their illicit business, and (org crime infested) private equity companies cashing in on the former situation, pumping assets by buying up available real estate just to make it unavailable. CRIME is the real rea…

> using real estate as a fiat currency

Even if we take your premise as a given, the entire reason real estate is so valuable is that there isn't enough housing in the first place. Real estate is, by its nature, a bad investment; it's only the scarcity of it that makes the value continue to go up exponentially.

> buying up available real estate just to make it unavailable

There isn't actually any available housing in the first place, at the point of cities even approving projects, compared to the number of people who need housing. That's the problem. The most extreme example is San Francisco, where as of this July the entire city had approved only 16 housing units [1] out of an already comically poor goal of only about 10,000 housing units per year.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/san-francisco-only-agreed-build-16-...

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

laidoffamazon wrote: post #108
IAmGraydon wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have $1M of net worth that isn’t a house (and is therefore likely to be liquid) and you can’t afford to buy a house? Where and how much?

I spend about $3.2k a month for a studio apartment in an HCOL area. I don’t even own a car.

You need to move, yesterday. Yes, moving sucks. No, ideally you wouldn't have to. But at the end of the day you are just plain shooting yourself in the foot if you continue to live in a place that absurdly expensive.

Like dude, you could buy an awesome house in just about any other part of the country if you truly have $1m in liquid wealth. You have options to own a house, you just have to act on them.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by frakkingcylons »

srbloom wrote: post #20

This is super freaking cool. I'm curious how you feel about Austin vs Bay Area in terms of general quality of life, culture, things like that?

Related to culture, I moved to Austin in 2012 and that was the first time I saw a restaurant advertising that their water had no fluoride.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by ikrenji »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #112
kentonv wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly I've never felt it made any difference to me when gaming. I would never code on such a keyboard but for the old WASD it seems fine. That said, guests are welcome to bring any peripherals they want. There's a USB hub at each station to plug stuff in.

I guess it depends on what sort of games you're playing, but isn't it possible for the lack of n-key rollover to be a problem? My understanding is that many of these keyboards fail to register inputs if too many keys are pressed at the same time.

he said they don't play competitive games.
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