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New comment by chung8123 in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

chung8123 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:39:44 +0000

It is difficult to retire with house equity. Housing is just one element of what you need to have in retirement and after a certain point, and especially in retirement, once the house is what you plan to stay in forever it is better if it is worth less (all other social factors aside) so that you don't pay as much in taxes on it.

New comment by chung8123 in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

chung8123 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:22:38 +0000

The Gamestop 2019 play was a fundamental analysis on supply and demand of the shares of the stock vs financial performance. TSLA seems to be similar. There is just a lot of demand for the the stock.

New comment by chung8123 in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

chung8123 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:17:52 +0000

The US is adding so much money to the economy every year and all that money has to go somewhere. I used to think this would come crashing down but at this point no one cares about debt and by the time we do it will be too late.

New comment by chung8123 in "The AI tech job slaughter gets real"

chung8123 — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:52:35 +0000

I feel like I live in a weird other world. I find AI super useful. Then I read in forums like this how bad it is. I guess I am on the AI bandwagon. Obviously there are places where it still needs improvement but if you asked me a year ago if AI would be able to do what it does not I would have said no. So far I have really underestimated its potential.

New comment by chung8123 in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

chung8123 — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:45:32 +0000

A few years ago (before LLMs were as good as they are today) I wanted an LLM to do a RAG like memory on all the books I own. My dream was that every book I purchased would go into my LLM making it better but also giving me a reference back to the text to look up and help me get better.

Honestly I didn't expect LLMs to progress so fast. Now it just seems like an unnecessary solution to a problem that no longer exists.

New comment by chung8123 in "The AI zombification of universities"

chung8123 — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:35:08 +0000

The college system is creating the zombie underclass with AI or without it. The amount of money colleges charge combined with the text book thinking shapes people into thinking there are steps to success, there are right answers, and "getting a job" is the right way to go. Colleges don't teach independent thinking and that is the exact thinking we need in the era of Youtube and AI. You don't need college to teach you how to learn text book items anymore and I think that is scary to some.

New comment by chung8123 in "Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer"

chung8123 — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:16:17 +0000

In the states if you want to live car free you can but you need to be strategic in where you live within a city. I have lived in a few from east to west coast, suburbs to urban. By selecting your place in a city carefully you can go car free or mostly car free.

New comment by chung8123 in "Checkmate in Iran"

chung8123 — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:53:59 +0000

It is hard to believe this doesn't push us towards electricity for more things. It is so much less to have an electrical vehicle right now. Electrical prices have a soft cap too as solar becomes cheaper.

New comment by chung8123 in "Only 173? Tesla Cybertruck RWD Recall Reveals Low Sales"

chung8123 — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:58:49 +0000

Those photos don't look real. Hard to tell what is fake these days.

New comment by chung8123 in "Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies"

chung8123 — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:31:17 +0000

Data should help transient situations as well.

New comment by chung8123 in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

chung8123 — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:20:43 +0000

There are a lot of people that just don't pay the fines and ignore suspended licenses as money stops becoming a motivator on the other end as well.

New comment by chung8123 in "Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year"

chung8123 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:32:44 +0000

Cheap drones have made war more expensive for people that care about where they inflict the damage.

New comment by chung8123 in "Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year"

chung8123 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:05:20 +0000

It feels like the drone factories should be targetable and who controls that may control a war.

New comment by chung8123 in "Waymo in Portland"

chung8123 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:01:31 +0000

There are definitely hints that it is Oregon on the page.

New comment by chung8123 in "Waymo in Portland"

chung8123 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:06:19 +0000

Are trains really less expensive and more efficient than busses? One additional stop to Vancouver WA on the Max train is 22 million a year in operating cost. https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/dec/11/it-seems-so-outra...

You can drive a lot of busses for 22 million a year.

I use the train a lot in Portland and I would not endorse something so expensive.

New comment by chung8123 in "It's the Age of Electricity and America Isn't Ready"

chung8123 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:38:47 +0000

I could see a future where I decide to generate my own power locally if the infrastructure costs become too much.

New comment by chung8123 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

chung8123 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:09:23 +0000

I bought a chinese mini excavator. It is super simple and I am sure things will break on it (I already had a qc issue with the fuel gauge) but I don't fear things breaking. With the competitors the dealer had to service everything. With the chinese one I text someone on whatsapp, diagnose remotely, and they send me a part. Honestly I like this model more. If you have a lot of money the dealer is great.

New comment by chung8123 in "3.4M Solar Panels"

chung8123 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:17:18 +0000

Why not install and not attach to the grid? My understanding is if you have them attached to batteries and not feeding back it is considered off grid in some places.

New comment by chung8123 in "3.4M Solar Panels"

chung8123 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:15:36 +0000

There are so many scams in the solar industry. I feel like a ton of installers joined just to make a quick buck with no effort.

New comment by chung8123 in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

chung8123 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:55:29 +0000

A pilot is pretty expensive.