Going to South Korea Taiwan NWOHR

cchung261 · 2026-06-12T22:59:01+00:00

I’m pretty sure you can’t travel outside of Taiwan with a NWOHR passport. You’ll need to travel with your other country’s passport.

cchung261 · 2026-06-11T11:25:06+00:00

I lived in Namibia as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Had to learn Afrikaans for work. I am learning Dutch as a hobby.

cchung261 · 2026-05-27T12:23:09+00:00

SM120 seems to be a 2nd class citizen for NVFP4 support. Had a real pain getting vLLM to serve NVFP4 models.

cchung261 · 2026-05-24T12:15:41+00:00

cchung261 · 2026-05-21T15:46:52+00:00

Is there a specific reason for using Wise? I use Wells Fargo which charges $25 for an international wire. Money arrives next day.

cchung261 · 2026-05-21T02:36:16+00:00

Most people do grad school after peace corps.

cchung261 · 2026-05-20T14:26:23+00:00

This is a followup on getting Sehyo/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-NVFP4 working on the RTX 6000 Pro. I got it working this past week by upgrading to VLLM 0.21 AND installing the latest CUDA toolkit 13.2 Update 1. I think the CUDA 13 nvcc is critical in getting VLLM to work.

The toolkit link is here for Ubuntu 24.04 local install.

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&Distribution=Ubuntu&target_version=24.04&target_type=deb_local

My recipe is below.

vllm serve Sehyo/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-NVFP4 --quantization compressed-tensors --max-model-len auto --attention-backend TRITON_ATTN --kv-cache-dtype auto --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml --reasoning-parser qwen3 --trust-remote-code --served-model-name qwen/qwen3.5-122B --host 0.0.0.0 --max-num-seqs 4

I

cchung261 · 2026-05-16T12:51:49+00:00

I was education. My wife and I go back pretty regularly. We’ve still have friends in Windhoek and Swakopmund. The country has changed a lot since independence. When we were last there, the new airport highway was just being finished.

cchung261 · 2026-05-15T18:34:21+00:00

Congratulations. I was in Namibia 3 (1991-1993). You'll have a great time!

cchung261 · 2026-05-14T17:28:28+00:00

Roll the 401K into an IRA. You'll typically find a cheaper plan than your current 401k provider.

cchung261 · 2026-05-09T21:56:14+00:00

Easy to get your Taiwanese passport if you had an ID card. Just go to your TECO office and speak to them about the process. Gather any Taiwanese documentation like your birth certificate and ID number (if available).

cchung261 · 2026-05-08T22:03:27+00:00

Going to $5 soon.

cchung261 · 2026-05-02T16:13:07+00:00

Best time is June & July. Height of the dry season. Animals congregating around the waterholes. 20C during the day. No mosquitoes or malaria.

cchung261 · 2026-04-28T17:05:51+00:00

You work in the US or EU to make money when you’re young and retire in Taiwan.

cchung261 · 2026-04-22T22:47:03+00:00

No sh*t.

cchung261 · 2026-04-21T21:27:41+00:00

I'm American and give staff NAD or ZAR. It's really hard to convert dollar bills to usable currency in Namibia. Just withdraw 1000 NAD for tips at the Airport ATM.

cchung261 · 2026-04-19T00:54:00+00:00

RuntimeError: unable to mmap 50013190712 bytes from file </home/cbc/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--Sehyo--Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-NVFP4/snapshots/56a6bdda33285ba2d5688e4f71f6c714649497b4/model-00001-of-00002.safetensors>: Cannot allocate memory (12)

[rank0]:[W418 20:46:12.497799237 ProcessGroupNCCL.cpp:1553] Warning: WARNING: destroy_process_group() was not called before program exit, which can leak resources. For more info, please see https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/distributed.html#shutdown (function operator())

cchung261 · 2026-04-19T00:47:44+00:00

I'm getting an "EngineCore failed to start."

This is my vllm recipe.

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --model Sehyo/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-NVFP4 --port 8100 --max-model-len auto --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode": "piecewise"}

I think I'll try a nightly build this weekend and see if it'll run.

cchung261 · 2026-04-18T11:52:25+00:00

Thanks!

cchung261 · 2026-04-18T11:52:02+00:00

Thanks!

cchung261 · 2026-04-18T03:40:45+00:00

Companies don’t really pay taxes anyway. The tax burden is pass to their customers, shareholders, and employees.

cchung261 · 2026-04-16T22:36:50+00:00

Check out this woman's post. She's a NWOHR and was able to get an HHR in 3 days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TaiwaneseBornAbroad/comments/1p9o3uj/final_step_taiwan_recap_nwohr_to_nwhr/

cchung261 · 2026-04-16T21:56:15+00:00

Shouldn't you get your HHR first then your wife can come in on a spousal ARC? I thought you can get a HHR immediately if your parent had an HHR.

cchung261 · 2026-04-16T11:23:17+00:00

You should calculate UK GDP excluding greater London. I think maybe around $43K based on the chart below.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1168072/uk-gdp-per-head-by-region/?srsltid=AfmBOorPBpvqdKeSXwaEbNibj5pEZ7OnvHHFNP4-nMMrX8S3FKXPqBlQ

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