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For me it is the MS intellimouse
Oh man that was a good one too.
They started making it again a few years back. Then discontinued... But you still might be able to find one :)
Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
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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.”
To be fair OP's website explains that most of the money isn't earned income. I'm happy for them though
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It’s not for my benefit, I just want to see Stanford grads get punished. I could get more punitive but I keep that for yelling at strangers in person.
Where did the Stanford thing come from? I went to the University of Minnesota.
Any chance you have a gopher server running there then?
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Might be able to use a flipper zero as the sensor, if the cats are chipped. Then you'll have data to catch any unusual usage, like a urinary blockage, before it becomes a serious problem! At that point you're a smart switch and Home Assistant script away from fan control.
Garply had a blockage once and he did a remarkably good job of communicating the problem to us directly!
As a fellow cat person, I feel pretty confident interpreting what’s being implied here. :-)
Beautiful home and contents, btw! It seems expensive but more than a few folks would have spent the same money on “nicer marble” or something.
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#205That 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 ab…
> I'd be really curious to know what the people who bought your house in Palo Alto did with the house
I don't really know. I never spoke with them directly (real estate agents like to avoid that...). I did leave the equipment, but the buyer was a family and my impression was that they weren't particularly interested in the LAN setup, so it's possible they ripped it all out.
I looked up the house on street view and they have a Tesla parked in the front yard (on dirt/grass) which strikes me as a hilarious combination of Bay Area and hillbilly. (There is a carport in the back of the house, I don't know why they aren't using it!)
Anyway, the computers were a bit outdated so I don't think it would have been useful to bring them with us.
> I would expect Austin to go more smoothly than Palo Alto but that would be interesting to know about too.
Loooooooool, no. Austin was actually much worse. It took six months! Though it was in the middle of the pandemic, maybe that was part of it.
But the plans as submitted for permitting didn't really show any of the LAN party stuff so there really wasn't anything unusual to react to.
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#206Amazing build, and even better, a set of long time friends. You and your wife are rich in all senses.
I was wondering what the maximum power draw you have seen. Do you monitor your energy usage during normal use and during a party with all machines buzzing.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
Garply had a blockage once and he did a remarkably good job of communicating the problem to us directly!
As a fellow cat person, I feel pretty confident interpreting what’s being implied here. :-) Beautiful home and contents, btw! It seems expensive but more than a few folks would have spent the same money on “nicer marble” or something.
Heh, I actively dislike "nice marble" or anything that just looks expensive without providing any functional benefit.
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Quake is still so much fun. Been playing for years with a group and it doesn't get old.
What changes after years of playing? I assume everyone has every inch of the maps memorized?
>What changes after years of playing?
New ways to exploit the physics to do things your opponents don't expect and can't easily reproduce. As the skill level of regular players increases, I always look for new ways to approach the maps.
Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
#209Amazing build, and even better, a set of long time friends. You and your wife are rich in all senses. I was wondering what the maximum power draw you have seen. Do you monitor your energy usage during normal use and during a party with all machines buzzing.
I haven't actually monitored power usage during parties. But I should do that at the next one... I have better equipment for than now that since we finished the solar install!
I suspect though that even when the game machines are running they probably don't draw all that much power compared to the HVAC. We seem to have ~10-12kW going to HVAC throughout the day... this feels broken to me (these are supposed to be high-efficiency heat pumps and such) but I haven't been able to figure out what's wrong yet.
Whereas if all the computers were drawing the theoretical maximum their PSUs support (750W each) that would be 15kW, but in practice I suspect they draw a small fraction of that most of the time, even when in-game.
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#210As the former proprietor of LanParty.com (which I mistakenly included in a sale to IGN) I must salute you. The absolute genius of the provided lan equipment and particularly the management thereof is an inspiration. I think the lack of any standing offerings of variations of Quake is a glaring mistake but easily rectified. :) It's really heartening to see lan gaming continued and offered in such a way that the amount…
I remember our biggest issue being IP addresses. We had no router, or expertise, so we were at the whims of automatic addresses (254.x... as far as I recall?). Good times.