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We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Re: We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Post by wafflemaker »

igleria wrote: post #264
kentonv wrote: post #249

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Hmmmmm..... Just kidding. Gotta say I never understood the appeal of yachts. What does a yacht give you that a fancy house doesn't? It's on the water? So what? It's not like it goes fast enough to be a worthwhile form of transportation... I do totally get private jets. They are fancy, but also get you somewhere. LAN party jet? That'd be a cool way to pass a long flight. Hey guys let's LAN party to Tokyo! (I do not ex…

yatch can get into international waters so anything goes? So in my mind if someone owns a yatch they are into weird an illegal stuff 99% of the time.

Like porn with midgets and donkeys?

You can have a lot of midgets on a yacht, but where would you keep the donkey?

Re: We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Post by quickthrowman »

ssl-3 wrote: post #19
swiftcoder wrote: post #3

God, imagine having a big enough friend group as an adult to justify an 18-gaming-PC LAN. These folks are doing something right

We had LAN parties like that once upon a time when we had a space that supported it. Friends of friends would show up. Not everyone knew everyone else and this was fine. Cold drinks of every sort were available at the carry-out next door, and some would bring things to share. Donations were had for pizza or burgers (sometimes nowhere near enough donations, and sometimes more than plenty; it averaged OK). The social a…

> (The second-largest problem -- the smell -- is a different issue entirely. It usually ramped up pretty well by the time the first problem was approaching being solved.)

Makeup air unit and exhaust fan, just like a commercial kitchen, sans the hood and fire surpression.

The exhaust fan should have a slightly higher cfm that the makeup air unit to maintain negative pressure so the body odor does not escape the gaming cave :)

Re: We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Post by throwitaway222 »

throwayay4929 wrote: post #257
throwitaway222 wrote: post #252

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It's almost like they stopped making good games in the last 10 years.... looks around - nice games you're playing!

Hahaha, yeah. It tells you about my age group for sure. But there are some new titles like RV Together that are pretty good too. We just don't have a ton of bandwidth to try new stuff too since it's usually 1 night every 2-4 months :-)

Serious Sam might be a nice addition.

Re: We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Post by kentonv »

lucasacosta_ wrote: post #271

I hope I didn't get deceived, but this was such a human-non-ai read!! It was wonderful to get to know the history which I would think you wrote yourself! Much appreciated, thanks for sharing! Really!

I never use AI to write!

But also I wrote this in 2024, which was before I used AI to do anything.

Re: We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Post by lucasacosta_ »

kentonv wrote: post #295
lucasacosta_ wrote: post #271

I hope I didn't get deceived, but this was such a human-non-ai read!! It was wonderful to get to know the history which I would think you wrote yourself! Much appreciated, thanks for sharing! Really!

I never use AI to write! But also I wrote this in 2024, which was before I used AI to do anything.

That's awesome, it's crazy that we would reach a point where knowing it's fully human-written adds so much value to it

Thanks again!

Re: We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Post by kentonv »

kubb wrote: post #280
peddling-brink wrote: post #205

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Yeah well my llm said the opposite, so this is obviously untrue. Also, my llm can beat up your llm.

Being silly and obstinate when knowledge is in arm’s reach? Making people spell it out for you because you don’t have the respect to look yourself? OK here’s the short version: the economy has a limited amount of resources and the way they’re allocated matters. A yacht built means no hospital built. Making people work on useless stuff for the rich is demoralizing because their life’s blood is used on meaningless proj…

LLMs will tell you whatever you want to hear. You subtly direct them with the way you ask the question, and then they give you the answer you want. That's basically what they're trained to do. So of course they always give you the answer you want -- but you can't just go around telling people to ask an LLM to back up your argument, as other people will get a difference answer.

Re: We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Post by tosti »

kentonv wrote: post #183

Oh hello! This is my house! Thanks for posting! Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156977 Unfortunately this new thread was posted while I was asleep, and so I haven't been online to answer questions as the thread developed. Whereas in the previous thread I participated from the start. Pro tip to anyone whose stuff gets posted on HN: It is a completely different place when the author is…

Looks pretty cool. I wonder why you kept all of the individual power adapters, instead of opting for neater rails with beefier and more efficient power supplies.

Re: We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Post by twalla »

kentonv wrote: post #249
onionisafruit wrote: post #208

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If someone wants to post a lan party yacht, I’m here for that too

Hmmmmm..... Just kidding. Gotta say I never understood the appeal of yachts. What does a yacht give you that a fancy house doesn't? It's on the water? So what? It's not like it goes fast enough to be a worthwhile form of transportation... I do totally get private jets. They are fancy, but also get you somewhere. LAN party jet? That'd be a cool way to pass a long flight. Hey guys let's LAN party to Tokyo! (I do not ex…

You may like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/10/13/nba-sp...

Re: We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Post by kubb »

kentonv wrote: post #297
kubb wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being silly and obstinate when knowledge is in arm’s reach? Making people spell it out for you because you don’t have the respect to look yourself? OK here’s the short version: the economy has a limited amount of resources and the way they’re allocated matters. A yacht built means no hospital built. Making people work on useless stuff for the rich is demoralizing because their life’s blood is used on meaningless proj…

LLMs will tell you whatever you want to hear. You subtly direct them with the way you ask the question, and then they give you the answer you want. That's basically what they're trained to do. So of course they always give you the answer you want -- but you can't just go around telling people to ask an LLM to back up your argument, as other people will get a difference answer.

I don’t think that’s true anymore. You can ask for weak points of a position (e.g. that luxury spending is good for the economy) and they will give you a reasonable answer.

You could do the opposite - what are the weak points of the position that accumulation of wealth leads to waste and see what are the weak points there.

And then think which position can be dismantled more easily and is therefore less well founded. Or ask for a steelman version of it.

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