Hacker News: cdash

New comment by cdash in "Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond"

cdash — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:46:09 +0000

It hasn't really changed much in the mastering process, they still are doing the same old compression. Maybe not the to the same extremes, but dynamic range is still usually terrible. They do it a a higher LUFS target than the streaming platforms normalize to because each streaming platform has a different limit and could change it at any time, so better to be on the safe side. Also the fact that majority of music listening doesn't happen on good speakers/environment.

New comment by cdash in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

cdash — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 04:03:11 +0000

I am not sure how its only a political decision when they don't have control of their own airspace. How exactly do they rebuild when as soon as they start they get bombed. I think its more accurate to say it WAS a political decision. They had the capability but did not pursue it due to the fallout of doing so. The question its do they still retain the capability and will they ever be allowed to reclaim that capability if they lost it.

New comment by cdash in "Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu"

cdash — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:01:36 +0000

Same here. Whatever I do could not be defined as traditional touch typing but it kind of works. I definitely do not look at the keyboard at all but my fingers kind of just hover over the keyboard instead of resting on the home row.

New comment by cdash in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

cdash — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:56:07 +0000

They don't actually have any jurisdiction in this case. Launches from Vandendberg are from a military base and while they do try to work with the California commission they ultimately are the ones that decide what does and does not get launched.

New comment by cdash in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

cdash — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:25:03 +0000

That is projections for this year only with a target closer to 10 billion revenue next year.

New comment by cdash in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

cdash — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:04:59 +0000

Could just be differential/rtk GPS. You can get incredible precision with that.

New comment by cdash in "Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time"

cdash — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 14:21:27 +0000

Just want to add another comment in here that there is no manual termination, they are using a fully automatic flight termination system.

New comment by cdash in "SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch Site"

cdash — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:13:34 +0000

While you maybe be right, I just want to note that SpaceX isn't just expanding factory footprint at Boca Chica. They will be manufacturing Starship in Florida as well and have already started expanding there too.

New comment by cdash in "Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source"

cdash — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:38:27 +0000

Why is there so much misinformation around this. None of what you said is true.

New comment by cdash in "Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source"

cdash — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:35:30 +0000

Completely, wrong. That is the entire reason why the source is available in Unreal. To allow you to modify it and make games.

New comment by cdash in "TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe"

cdash — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 14:39:12 +0000

Not sure how the state population is relevant, the vast majority of people living in Arizona live in the Phoenix metropolitan area which is where these new fabs are being built. The population size for that area is also around 5 million. Also, how is immigration between countries in Europe easier than immigration between states in the US. That is simply not possible when the US has no language/cultural barriers.

New comment by cdash in "Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue"

cdash — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:06:38 +0000

The hard part for people is not obtaining a copy of the media which DRM is "supposed" to prevent. The hard part is setting up the multiple services that makes all this convenient with slick interfaces that people are used to similar to Netflix. That would still require just as much effort with or without DRM.

New comment by cdash in "Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks"

cdash — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 05:18:10 +0000

Because discord has actually convinced people to pay for it.

New comment by cdash in "Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)"

cdash — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 01:18:17 +0000

No, that dose needs to happen in a short amount of time to apply.

New comment by cdash in "Discord’s username change is causing discord"

cdash — Sun, 07 May 2023 05:29:27 +0000

None of this should be an issue anyway, no one has any trouble linking discord server invites. Add the ability to easily link your user profile. Or even better, friend invites. Discord already has single use invites for servers. I doubt this change has anything to do with friend invites, they want to start adding features of other social media networks instead of just being a chat platform.

New comment by cdash in "Google DeepMind"

cdash — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:24:38 +0000

No one in the public knows what those are but most people have heard of ChatGPT at this point.

New comment by cdash in "SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas"

cdash — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:52:08 +0000

I think they are actually below the $2M mark already and the actual goal is to get to 250k per engine (At least for non gimbal sea-level engines).

New comment by cdash in "SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas"

cdash — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:48:02 +0000

It doesn't remain to be seen. SpaceX has done this already with the Falcon rocket.

New comment by cdash in "Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm"

cdash — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 04:48:25 +0000

I have had it reset a couple times on mobile a few months ago but at least recently I have not noticed it happening anymore.

New comment by cdash in "Twitter was down"

cdash — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:51:35 +0000

Works fine.