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New comment by pier25 in "RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8"

pier25 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:08:38 +0000

> not to mention the electricity to run them...

And noise.

New comment by pier25 in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

pier25 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:24:30 +0000

That's your interpretation.

When someone claims that vinyl has less than half the DR of a CD then I think it's important to clarify how big of a difference it actually is. I would imagine HN would care about 16bits vs aprox 10bits of dynamic range.

New comment by pier25 in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

pier25 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:16:19 +0000

I'm stating an objective measurable fact not arguing about semantics or meaning, whatever that is for you.

New comment by pier25 in "AI Engineering the Acceleration Whiplash"

pier25 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:13:43 +0000

I'm not saying there haven't been improvements but personally I would not classify those as "very different".

New comment by pier25 in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

pier25 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:15:16 +0000

> That is a false way of saying it

As an audio engineer I'm well aware of how decibels work and why we use them.

You're talking about subjective perception but I'm talking about objective measurements.

New comment by pier25 in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

pier25 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:29:34 +0000

Yep many current pop songs are commonly mastered at around -8 LUFS even peaking at -5 LUFS which is quite loud.

New comment by pier25 in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

pier25 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:18:03 +0000

> Vinyl literally has less than half the dynamic range of CD

A lot less than half.

It's around 20-30db and every 10db is a factor of 10. The CD has between 100-1000x more dynamic range.

New comment by pier25 in "Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents"

pier25 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:24:39 +0000

Every time I do something that's not supposed to be permanent until I have time to implement a proper solution it lasts for years.

New comment by pier25 in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

pier25 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:40:02 +0000

So a company which has access to practically unlimited tokens and their best models makes crappy software. Huh who would've thought?

New comment by pier25 in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

pier25 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:47:07 +0000

> Shipping tens of megabytes per web page is impolite, if not outright disrespectful to users.

You're being generous with what I would consider negligence.

New comment by pier25 in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

pier25 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:45:04 +0000

The vast majority of global users are not using iPhones.

New comment by pier25 in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

pier25 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:43:13 +0000

The consequences of MBs of JavaScript can be perceived by anyone in terms of performance and mobile data consumption.

New comment by pier25 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

pier25 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:23:05 +0000

You definitely need other factors but societal passion seems like the cornerstone. The US has everything except this.

Personally couldn't care any less about sports. I say this as an external observer.

New comment by pier25 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

pier25 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:58:48 +0000

It's the culture.

I'm from Spain and living in Mexico. Football in these countries is almost like a religion.

New comment by pier25 in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

pier25 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:23:17 +0000

> There's guaranteed persistence

There's not. Browsers can delete "persistent" storage at any time.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Storage_API...

New comment by pier25 in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

pier25 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:00:40 +0000

Honestly you can POST to an API to the other side of the world and receive a response in less than 300ms. That's literally the blink of an eye. There are very few use cases where you'd need even lower latency than that while at the same time sacrificing reliability (there's no guaranteed persistent storage in a browser).

New comment by pier25 in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

pier25 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:57:08 +0000

For native apps this is less of an issue since they have access to persistent storage but with browsers there's no guaranteed persistence.

New comment by pier25 in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

pier25 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:51:48 +0000

> Webpack - while maybe a win over Grunt/Gulp, was MASSIVELY complex.

and slow

New comment by pier25 in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

pier25 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:50:15 +0000

yeah SSR is still marked as experimental after like 3-4 years

New comment by pier25 in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

pier25 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:48:27 +0000

nobody wants it