What's the Geekiest Accomplishment/Thing you have ever done so far?

[Boxing Kitten]

I've built my first serious x99 computer rig. Learned another 3 Web development languages. Written a list to minimalize my wardrobe because in my opinion fashion complicates my life. Watch documentaries on nearly a daily basis and generally prefer to never waste time unless I'm digesting new information. All this for the past 4yrs now.

[Guest]

Writing Monopoly game for 4 person in C

[Dash Lambda]

I've solved a Rubik's cube in 10.28 seconds (still not sub-10 yet, grr...).

Other than that I don't really know what counts as "geeky" and what doesn't.

[Boxing Kitten]

8 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Writing Monopoly game for 4 person in C

Just because you want to!? I commend u thats no easy task sir

[manikyath]

well.. i've made an online version of "colonists of catan" with no UI what so ever, with all the game actions happening trough IRC, i guess that's pretty geeky

 

beyond that, it's probably gonna be calculating a pythagorean equasion off the top of my head ending up accurate to like... 3 or 4 digits . for clarification: no piece of paper to write things down, just take the input numbers, brainmath, and output.

 

EDIT: i know someone's gonna ask, so i'm gonna spoiler in how i ended up doing that:

Spoiler

first off, no it wasnt fast, i did it because someone told me doing math helps you sleep

 

basicly, you can do addition in the bwainz pretty easily, multiplication isnt too bad either, squares are just a multiplication, it's the square root that's the issue, for that i used a combination of two things:

- approximation trough doing square

(for example if the result would be 10.5, you'd square 10 -> too small, try 11 -> too large, so you know it's somewhere in between, and based on the result of tthe squares you can estimate where between the base number your result will be)

- i have a *REALLY* visual brain, and i've taught myself how to pretty accurately "simulate" these things, and basicly just back and forth-ed results between these two methods.

 

at some point i had this 5 or 6 digit number in my head, and i realised the issue with this way of falling asleep: if you succeed before you fall asleep you really want to know if that result was right, so i got up, found a calculator, ran the numbers, and i found that my madness was 1 off on the 4th digit.

 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Giovanni7 said:

Just because you want to!? I commend u thats no easy task sir

yes

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Giovanni7 said:

Just because you want to!? I commend u thats no easy task sir

but I have no friends to play with

[Velvet Revolver]

What's the Geekiest Accomplishment/Thing you have ever done so far?

 

joining LTT forum

[Boxing Kitten]

3 hours ago, Velvet Revolver said:

What's the Geekiest Accomplishment/Thing you have ever done so far?

 

joining LTT forum

 Amen LOL !!!

[KuJoe]

I've done a lot of geek stuff in my days but one of the most recent was creating a game for my daughter because there were no good games on Steam for her, now I'm making an MMORPG for my family and friends to play because of how much fun game development is.

[Velvet Revolver]

I should start a topic of whats the stupidest thing you ever done.

[Boxing Kitten]

4 hours ago, Velvet Revolver said:

I should start a topic of whats the stupidest thing you ever done.

Thats actually harder to think of lol

[Velvet Revolver]

1 minute ago, Giovanni7 said:

Thats actually harder to think of lol

sure it is @Giovanni7   

[mrchow19910319]

18 hours ago, Velvet Revolver said:

joining LTT forum

I was about the say the same thing. 

[Velvet Revolver]

8 minutes ago, mrchow19910319 said:

I was about the say the same thing. 

i said it 18 hours ago

[mrchow19910319]

Using my 2012 non-retina macbook pro as my daily driver instead of my i7-4770, 16GB of Ram , and a RX480 machine.... Apple haters come at me bro.

 

[mrchow19910319]

Just now, Velvet Revolver said:

i said it 18 hours ago

[Boxing Kitten]

15 minutes ago, Velvet Revolver said:

sure it is @Giovanni7   

On account of the multitude of stupid things ive done. 

[Velvet Revolver]

[Ithanul]

Imaging 200+ government computers in under two hours (Yah for PXE boot!  ).  Then troubleshooting the fiber switch and finding out a stinking translation bridge died (thank goodness there was a spare with our kit).

[LeprekonKilla]

I'm STILL working on that Just Cause 2 100%...3 years later.

[asand1]

Replaced blown capacitors on my Geforce 6600 AGP rather than buy an obsolete replacement card, or replacing the dead LCD display in the cassette player of my '96 Nissan Maxima.

[PirateFish]

Made a chessboard out of a beer case during a festival.

[Thunderpup]

I was able to solve an issue that was affecting all the computers in our company that our local and corporate IT department couldn't.

[Coaxialgamer]

Resoldering pads on an lga cpu

Beating MGR:revengeance in revengeqnce mode

Repairing a broken 1982 DEC rainbow 100 workstation computer.