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

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Post by Aeolun »

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.

Edit: I was wrong.

> I recall reading something like 13 keys, and wondering what kind of lunatic tries to press 13 buttons at the same time.

My recollection was wrong though, and most keyboards support at least two keys held down at the same time (plus shift/alt/ctrl).

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Post by somishere »

renewiltord wrote: post #52
somishere wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

to see that upside on a home requires you 1. sell and 2. buy somewhere cheaper (or not buy at all) ... Otherwise it's a zero sum game. Home for a home.

Indeed that’s what OP did. Bought in the Bay low, then sold high and moved to Austin, where presumably the increase in value is again sufficiently high because Austin prices skyrocketed in the last 5 years.

Yes! My point is simply that, unlike an investment property, it's often hard to "see" the upside on a home sale. OP appears to have reinvested significantly in the epic new land + gaff, and also makes the point that prices have since been declining in Austin. The fact it's a home means that all this is a bit of an aside to the real transaction.

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Post by blackqueeriroh »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #198
frakkingcylons wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 It’s obviously not an intentional conspiracy to make people dumb but it happens to be outdated science to fluoridate city water at levels we do in the US.

This is factually incorrect. In fact recent studies show that up to 25% of cavities are still prevented by fluoridating water. On top of that, multiple Canadian cities are adding fluoride back in their water after 10 years of having it removed because of excellent evidence that the lack of fluoridation in the water is what led to the increase in cavities in those cities, since they had neighboring cities who kept fluoride in the water during the same period

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Post by manbash »

kentonv wrote: post #24
jgeralnik wrote: post #18

What DDR pads are those? Are they custom made?

They are L-TEK Ex Pro X. Shipped all the way from Poland! They seem to work pretty well. Have been using them frequently for more than a year with no issues yet.

Is Stepmania still the go-to DDR clone? This is very nostalgic. :)

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Post by hunter2_ »

zamalek wrote: post #210
Multiplayer wrote: post #49

As 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.

Windows will self-assign from 169.254/16 in the absence of a DHCP server.

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Post by defrost »

blackqueeriroh wrote: post #224
alchemist1e9 wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is factually incorrect. In fact recent studies show that up to 25% of cavities are still prevented by fluoridating water. On top of that, multiple Canadian cities are adding fluoride back in their water after 10 years of having it removed because of excellent evidence that the lack of fluoridation in the water is what led to the increase in cavities in those cities, since they had neighboring cities who kept flu…

It's factually correct that too much fluoride is correlated with decreased average IQ.

By "too much" a factor of > 10x western safe levels is meant and by "correlated with" is meant a slew of other heavy metals are generally present.

This comes from studies that look at places in China, in Africa, and elsewhere that have unusally high levels of fluoride and other elements naturally occurring in water or as a by product of other industrial processing going on.

Where the problem lies is in the "fill in the missing line" extrapolations that the anti-fluoride folk do to "conclude" that if really high levels of stuff in water makes you stupid and affects your health then it surely must follow that small amounts make you a bit stupid and a bit unhealthy.

This is despite no such evidence existing even given large western populations with meticulously kept water quality and health records in the UK, Canada, Australia, US, etc.

The G20 recommended fluoride levels are safe by all the evidence to date and work to decrease cavity rates.

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Post by justmarc »

kentonv wrote: post #58
RulerOf wrote: post #44

> I've never heard of anyone else having done anything like this. This surprises me! But, surely, if someone else did it, someone would have told me about it? If you know of another, please let me know! I never had the tenacity to consider my build "finished," and definitely didn't have your budget, but I built a 5-player room[1] for DotA 2 back in 2013. I got really lucky with hardware selection and ended up fightin…

Hah, you really did the VM thing? A lot of people have suggested that to me but I didn't think it'd actually work. Pretty cool! Yeah I'm pretty sure my onboard 10G Marvell AQtion ethernet is the source of most of my stability woes. About half the time any of these machines boot up, Windows bluescreens within the first couple minutes, and I think it has something to do with the iSCSI service crashing. Never had troubl…

You can get used ones super cheap on ebay. The same applies to RAM, CPUs and other parts.

No need to buy new for most computing equipment unless you're looking for the absolute latest and greatest.

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Post by Ringz »

system2 wrote: post #212
leptons wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

Download it from tastyspleen.com and play online too. I play quake2 online almost daily.

Domain for sale?

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Post by 0xDEAFBEAD »

Sweet setup!

I used to play games over LAN with my brothers when we were teenagers. We played every year or two, and every time we'd spend hours fiddling with the networking in order to get things to work. This was annoying. It left me dreaming about a LAN cafe where the proprietor has lots of games pre-installed, and you can just sit down and play with your friends, or make some new friends and play with them.

This could be especially good for cult classic games from previous decades that are even more difficult to get working with modern OS+hardware. I'm thinking of the game Moonbase Commander in particular. https://store.steampowered.com/app/254880/MoonBase_Commander...

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