It's not snark, in your reply you for whatever reason cut out the context at the end of the sentence. "Lucky 10k" is referring to this xkcd comic [0] which I thought was a pretty good one and I've tried to take to heart. I was genuinely surprised, but that's the point, what one thinks is "common sense" or "everyone knows" is always going to be brand new to someone every single day. It's happened to me lots, and is one of the delights of HN, to learn about a whole new set of use cases you've never considered before. In this case maybe it will lead them to consider how it might be useful in their own offices or homes for that matter. Making a powerful machine run quietly is both challenging and can be fairly expensive. But if you have the physical space available, then you may be able to just use powerful, cheap loud fans by virtue of putting it in an area of a basement or the like away from living space/home office and accessing it remotely. Depending on how you do so the quality can be the same as if you were sitting in front of it.
xoa|11 months ago
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0: https://xkcd.com/1053/
ibeff|11 months ago
Andrex|11 months ago