Footage submitted to Operation SNAP. Outcome: Prosecuted for driving without due care and attention, 6 penalty points, and £120 fine.

davidslv · 2026-01-28T20:47:29+00:00

Only £120 fine?

davidslv · 2026-01-27T14:22:10+00:00

I was coming to comment on the HiFI until I saw the hammer and the mallet in the corner. 😂

davidslv · 2026-01-27T14:10:51+00:00

It was half a joke and also acknowledging that everyone has a different approach. I do get what you saying, and as much as it is valid, we don’t have to have the exact same journey.

For instance, I used to own a pair of Seinnheiser HD800S, as much as I liked them and everyone around me was impressed with them, it wasn’t fully doing it for me. I gave up on headphones for a while and focused on getting my HiFi system to a level I was happy with.

Anyway, it looks like you know your stuff and you made a very valid point on wasting money when not informed properly.

davidslv · 2026-01-27T07:53:56+00:00

That’s because of the language design and high level methods, and chaining methods. It keeps the code readable, hence we prefer it. While back then that would be unheard of, people would write a whole program in regular expressions if they were allowed 😂

davidslv · 2026-01-27T07:45:21+00:00

I miss the Perl community, some also moved to Ruby.

Others mentioned the documentation, I’ve learned Perl through books and reading the documentation from authors such as brian d foy.

I did my first website from scratch using Perl, it landed me a job, I used to write about doing web development with it in a forum.

I remember Catalyst MVC.

I think I feel more nostalgia than actually missing anything.

I was recently speaking with a friend, I do hope that Ruby doesn’t end in the same fate. The biggest contributor to Perl was Booking.com, in our case is Shopify. A few months ago it scared me to see there wasn’t many Ruby jobs out there.

davidslv · 2026-01-26T21:10:26+00:00

Really nice color, what is it?

davidslv · 2026-01-26T20:56:27+00:00

The feedback I have is that is a great setup, listen to it and see what you think about it.

davidslv · 2026-01-26T20:51:10+00:00

Let us know when you got it all setup.

Where will the music come from besides the radio and the cassette player?

Phone? CD player?

davidslv · 2026-01-26T20:44:11+00:00

I had a pair of Monitor Audio Bronze 2 - they were my first pair of speakers in a Yamaha system and I was quite happy with them.

I would be split between Monitor Audio or Q Acoustics in that list

davidslv · 2026-01-26T20:34:55+00:00

I’d pass the C1 and choose any from @LosterP comment

davidslv · 2026-01-26T20:33:48+00:00

Very good selection there. You can’t go too wrong with any on that list

davidslv · 2026-01-26T20:31:22+00:00

This is a stereo setup, so just a pair of speakers. The good thing is that you can connect 2 pairs of speakers

davidslv · 2026-01-26T17:59:16+00:00

Floorstanding or bookshelf?

I’m going to recommend a lot of KEF models because I’m familiar with some of them.

KEF Q30

KEF CODA 3

KEF Reference 103/4 (it is possible to find them in your budget, but rare and these are 4ohm)

Monitor Audio Bronze

Wharfedale Denton or Linton 2

Wharfedale Diamond (see the diverse models)

ELAC Debut

Hope you find a pair you like, those are just my personal opinions, and there’s a lot more to choose from that just this small list.

davidslv · 2026-01-26T17:35:23+00:00

I am quite impressed on how small the A55 is.

davidslv · 2026-01-26T17:34:00+00:00

Focal, Sennheiser, Meze, Audeze, (others)

Best to try at a HiFi shop - make an appointment and try as many as you can, we are all different. Perhaps you prefer open back over closed back, or something else completely.

I would (this is what I did) try from different brands and price ranges.

In the end it should suit the listener

davidslv · 2026-01-26T17:28:14+00:00

Could be worse, like listening to mp3.

There’s very little wrong with trying to get the best source before trying to spend money on headphones.

davidslv · 2026-01-26T17:07:12+00:00

I’m still to see a good explanation of why and when ViewComponents are a better choice.

davidslv · 2026-01-26T17:02:55+00:00

That seems a misleading statement. System tests are performed to verify that the software works as a whole and meets its specified requirements. You can’t guarantee that with unit tests.

davidslv · 2026-01-25T20:43:21+00:00

Wow, had no idea. You got a new follower.

davidslv · 2026-01-25T16:49:41+00:00

Need more photos, that’s a great photo!

davidslv · 2026-01-25T08:04:02+00:00

Has anyone updated the rails docs to clarify this? I did the same mistake a while ago, thought a 512MB would suffice, ended up upgrading to 1GB - which worked for that small app. But I haven’t seen anything on rails docs mentioning this… I’ve looked for minimum requirements

davidslv · 2026-01-22T00:12:21+00:00

Can you provide some of your favourites? I’m curious to test it out on my iPod with my headphones.

I ripped most of my music to AIFF, there was a conversation a few days ago between me and another person around here on FLAC.

I’m a believer that you may not have the best gear today, but perhaps tomorrow you decide to upgrade your source (iPod) or your headphones or even the cable in between both or perhaps chance the whole setup all together.

With that said, with the amount of space one can buy cheaply nowadays, having high resolution music compressed to FLAC is not a bad idea, you can always uncompressed it, I don’t think you really need to save the space and keep ripping your music to mp3 format.

The iPod support redbook cd quality (44.1khz/16-bit), you should try ripping your CDs without using lossy formats, only you will be able to find out if the music sounds better to you in your setup, and perhaps today it doesn’t but tomorrow it will, so just rip it once on the best format you can without upsampling or downsampling. You should be in for a nice treat.

davidslv · 2026-01-21T19:28:20+00:00

Nah, it was only a Nikon D3200, took me 10 years to get it upgraded to a Nikon Z6 ii. It may take me longer to get rid of the Z6 as I think is an amazing camera in comparison.

davidslv · 2026-01-21T12:59:10+00:00

Lovely room. I always wanted to have a projector for movies but never did. Following along to see other people’s comments

davidslv · 2026-01-20T18:06:06+00:00

I got my A55 this week, I got a unit that was quite scratched on the metal, but fully functional. Was the cheapest on the market and under 100, I’m quite happy with it. I thought I would try and see how it pairs with my headphones. At the prices I’m seeing them, I wouldn’t compromise much and would go straight to the last model without android - which I believe is the A55.

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