Those cat corridors are cool as shit. I love little doors and hidden hallways, it's almost victorian. I would only worry about "noise" leaking out of the bedrooms...
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#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I remember the first time, we bought some 10BASE2 ethernet cards and BNC connector cables, and spend hours to figure out why it does not work, only then to learn the next day that we also need cable end terminators (if I remember that correctly). But then it worked and we had lots of fun.
Yes, you need terminators for them :-)
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#273That's a sweet LAN setup you've got! The only few things that rub me the wrong way is the choice of peripherals and the lack of headsets. Must be pretty noisy in here! The tabletops also seems a bit too thin and wiggly for my taste, but, honestly, for LAN parties with chill people you personally know — it's ok As for the actual host setup with a singular disk image — great job! LAN gaming centres do something similar…
I'm curious, what are the popular products/solutions that LAN centers use for this? I ended up putting together my own thing. I saw various products that seemed like they might be what I wanted but they always seemed... sketchy.
We were running a small internet cafe with gaming computers around 2000 and I found some bootable solution that you installed on every computer. It saved all changes temporarily and flushed everything on reboot, starting from the clean install you prepared the day before. Sadly there was no way of central storage possible with that program. Would have loved to build this setup at that time but money is always short.
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#275This 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.
Your net worth is far above the median. If taxes increase, you are likely to lose wealth, not gain it.
Increases to income tax generally won't lower a wealthy persons wealth, just the rate at which they can increase their wealth. They already have the money, and it will keep paying dividends and interest.
Unless you're talking about a new kind of wealth tax, but those aren't particularly popular...
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#276damn if I had this kinda money I'd do something crazy. like pay off my parent's mortgage.
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#277All this is truly, truly outstanding, except for one bit:
> Cat doors allow cats access to bedrooms when human doors are closed.
Kenton, you have made a grave mistake.
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you’re a Cloudflare shareholder, Kenton has increased your net worth quite a bit. He is one of the few people who is so unreasonably capable he can and has changed the direction of a multibillion dollar company single handedly. It sounds hyperbolic, but it’s not in this particular case. I’m also fairly convinced he didn’t capture one tenth of one percent of the value he created, so I’m not sure how anyone can argu…
As someone that was previously bullish on Workers but now fully disillusioned with a barely positive cost basis on it right now I disagree with this - if anything I feel burned for believing and continuing to believe. Either way, people like me aren’t going to be able to capture even a tenth of the success of joining Google in 2005 or buying a $1m house in Palo Alto ~4 years after graduating (I’m 6.5 years out of gra…
"people like me aren’t as human as the folks that own this house"
What do you mean? People aren't human if they do not have a certain level of wealth?
Seems to imply that you may think people with less wealth aren't valuable or even human. What should people with less wealth than you feel?
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#279Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
One factor: It's an investment that you can get for 20% down, or less. You can't borrow that much to gamble in the stock market. All is well as long as the value of the house doesn't go down. People like the idea of making money. They are used to real estate always increasing in value. We'll see what happens as boomer demand ages out.
And the loan is heavily subsidized by the federal government (and frequently by other governments as well).
US policy is to make real estate a fundamental part of Americans wealth. It’s worked! Since the policy started we’ve gone from hovering in the 40% homeownership rate to hovering in the mid 60s.
It’s also made housing expensive and homogeneous.
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#280This 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…
Mechanical keyboards aren't automatically great or durable. I've had various die on me. One from sitting in a drawer, probably corrosion. And it's not even always the keys/switches, electronics can degrade too and firmware can be horrendously buggy.