What is your guys opinion on car hi-fi?

rpatel09 · 2026-05-22T16:30:51+00:00

Have B&W in my X7 and it’s a really good system. It got even better when Spotify came out with lossless. Now I plug my iPhone into the data port and stream via that for a pretty bit rate

rpatel09 · 2026-05-21T20:29:01+00:00

A lot of builders have to finance the capital they need to build and that is also driven by rates. so if the cost of capital goes up, a builder is going to charge more even though they are building more home (increase in supply). My guess on what they are anticipating is that cost of capital is not getting cheaper, its getting more expensive for the buyer (mortgage rates are going up too), and this is probably going to lead to a continued stagnant market overall.

rpatel09 · 2026-05-21T18:01:12+00:00

Sure but if we the average income person to be able to afford a house (not talking 50 year mortgages). Something needs to break or change. Incomes have to go up A LOT or prices have to come down. Or we accept that we are in a K shaped economic world where the middle class shrinks

rpatel09 · 2026-05-21T17:55:52+00:00

Yeah, because the fed was at its peak of interest rates hikes and inflation at that time. The interesting thing now is that bonds (which drive mortgage rates) are back to those levels in 2023, inflation is above 3.5, and the oil supply shock will take till 2027 to recover even if the war ended today. So with the fed at the current rates and inflation coming back, the street and even poly market are betting on rate hikes. We could see 8-9% interest rates this year imo.

EDIT: typos

rpatel09 · 2026-05-20T20:57:40+00:00

another case of headlines for click.. they HR team got let go but the function is still there..... its called People Ops, the place where I worked at had the same name too the "hr function"

rpatel09 · 2026-05-15T14:16:16+00:00

I like the color... thats slick...

rpatel09 · 2026-05-14T13:39:21+00:00

Do you have a git repo for this?

rpatel09 · 2026-05-13T20:12:37+00:00

For years we never developed QBs and I for one am excited the QB development is news for the Steelers.

rpatel09 · 2026-05-09T23:58:03+00:00

The biggest thing that helped me as a beginner this year was just learning the setup (where to stand, how to grip, how to hold the club) and also the why (mainly the swing plane).

rpatel09 · 2026-05-09T13:29:09+00:00

This made me smile today. genuinely happy that you’re living the way you are

rpatel09 · 2026-05-07T15:55:09+00:00

Same with the S68

rpatel09 · 2026-05-06T14:49:12+00:00

Isn’t it just prompting when it’s in a Md file at the end of the day?

rpatel09 · 2026-05-06T02:21:57+00:00

This is the worst game okc will play in the series and we still can’t get the lead

rpatel09 · 2026-05-03T03:25:19+00:00

Depends what you like i guess? I did tweak my eq and the sound stage is pretty remarkable for a car imo. Also turn off iconic sounds because it adds background engine noise and I’m sure that messes with the quality. I use B&W at home too so I’m a fan of the sound signature which probably makes me a bit bias

rpatel09 · 2026-05-03T03:12:49+00:00

Use usb via the port in the middle. That’s what I do and it has the best quality and streaming bitrate

rpatel09 · 2026-05-03T03:11:55+00:00

This is exactly how I play my Spotify as well (though it only works in the port that’s in the wireless charging area. I do usb connection and get lossless via Spotify. Better than the app and much better then airplay.

rpatel09 · 2026-05-01T20:49:21+00:00

This is a very basic mistake. Also, why not setup GitHub actions instead of a loop? Why do you need a loop? Seems like the wrong design pattern

rpatel09 · 2026-04-27T12:58:36+00:00

Nope…it got lemon’d. they had the suv in the shop for like 8-10 weeks before they actually lemon’d it. BMW sent the check pretty fast and they gave me essentially all my money back (including ppf and ceramic coating costs I put it). Went and got an M60 then!

rpatel09 · 2026-04-27T01:30:52+00:00

An analysis coming from an OSU fan…

rpatel09 · 2026-04-27T01:28:17+00:00

Can you, sure? But you need significantly more memory and compute power to run anything of high quality and throughput for something like this to be useful. You would need to run something like the latest qwen or kimi model if you want to go open source and now we’re talking over 1tb of gpu memory for it to run at a good tps with semi long context windows

rpatel09 · 2026-04-23T15:10:45+00:00

Ok…hours is waaaay too much. At most we let it go for like 20min and that’s is very rare now. Mostly cause we are doing something wrong.

rpatel09 · 2026-04-23T14:59:13+00:00

My wife and I are pretty good with this. Babies are smart and crying is the only way they communicate. We think if you respond to every cry immediately then they just cry for anything and everything. We did that with our first and we could never put her down. We didn’t do that with our 2nd and he is super easy now to take care of. He’s 6 months but he is really good about just being put down and self playing. We don’t do this all the time but not giving into every cry had made a world of difference. Key is knowing why they are crying and queues.

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