Not gonna lie, this is really dope! Can I be your friend and drive from Houston for a LAN Party?
He answers this in the FAQ. You’ve got to get into his friend group or get hired by Cloudflare. Not sure which is more challenging!
Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
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#192This 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.
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.
> fundamentally the result of every major city making it expensive or impossible to actually build enough housing
ZIRP certainly had something to do with this too! Don’t overlook ridiculous fiscal and monetary policy.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm, that sounds like a lot more maintenance work to me. The way I have it set up, I am essentially maintaining only one PC, in a totally normal way. I update Windows by pulling up Windows Update in the control panel, etc. Since I only have to do it for one machine this is fine -- orchestrating updating 20 machines sounds like a pain. Yeah I know there are enterprise tools for this but why bother? Once I've updated t…
I meant your thing works great so good for you ! But to me it sounds harder to maintain than just wake on lan + pxe to reimage the machines before every lan party. I think it's specifically the fact that they access their disk remotely live that's bothering me. Why not just image it to the ssd and call it a day ?
Why not do it live? It works!
Well, OK, admittedly in the latest build, I have some stability issues right after boot. But in the worst case the machine reboots once or twice, and then it works. If it doesn't BSOD in the first five minutes then it's good, and everything works every bit as well as if the storage were local.
Whereas reimaging all the machines would actually take more time than waiting for this stability issue to work itself out. And would also require that I install storage in all the machines big enough to hold the main image (currently, they don't have this).
Overall I find it more convenient this way.
Note that the stability issue is specific to my hardware/drivers -- I didn't have any such problem in the Palo Alto house.
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#195Looking at this I was making noises like Homer Simpson looking at donuts.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn’t. They’re just expressing their jealousy in a thinly veiled and highly embarrassing way.
It truly is embarrassing. Imagine seeing something and thinking, "how can I get the government to forcefully take some of that for my benefit?"
Absolutely embarrassing and a real life demonstration of a famous quote:
“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”
Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
#197That is an awesome house and a great story. I'd be really curious to know what the people who bought your house in Palo Alto did with the house (and did you leave the gear with it? It looks like you bought all new computers for the new place so ...)
I'm curious too how the planning folks reacted when you got the permits. I would expect Austin to go more smoothly than Palo Alto but that would be interesting to know about too.
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#198This 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.
I suspect it will be interesting when people all realize too much fluoride is very bad and isn’t actually disinformation. It’s obviously not an intentional conspiracy to make people dumb but it happens to be outdated science to fluoridate city water at levels we do in the US.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What’s this fixation on house ownership? It doesn’t make sense rationally. Stock markets always perform better, easily beating ownership and the hassle and associated risks of managing property.
Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
#200This 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.
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.
Yep. The fact that in most places in the US it's illegal to build apartments above shops is insane. That's the norm in the UK.