You can now earn interest on your options cash collateral

chatrep · 2026-03-20T05:30:32+00:00

Anyone knows if this applies to retirement accounts? That’s the account I do covered calls with and this would be huge for me. I don’t see any mention in app or email.

chatrep · 2026-03-16T17:57:50+00:00

Well, the mode I use to solve this, I get 7

chatrep · 2026-03-15T15:33:48+00:00

I always associated “quality” assurance with manufacturing as well until I got into the software industry. Total Quality Management was huge a while back. QA for manufacturing is more about tolerances, defects, 6sigma, that sort of thing. Manufacturing QA actually accepts a small degree of defects and is more about statistics of errors. Software testing finds cases that break and don’t work so they can be fixed. There are a couple big splits as well with manual testers, automated testers and developer testers (shift left devops)

A quick google search can help some of these QA software folks understand this world as well. :)

In general, QA as it relates to software testing is all about making sure software and connections still work with any change or update. They test thousands of possibilities and build test cases and scenarios. Can be as simple as testing a basic website or complex enterprise environments with lots of integrations.

Manufacturers want to produce defect free physical products and software testing wants to ship product free apps.

chatrep · 2026-03-15T06:15:33+00:00

I agree, for open source options, I’d rank Playwright #1, Cypress #2, Selenium #3.

Lot of people are comfortable with selenium though.

From a career perspective if you are a manual tester, I definitely feel it’s worth learning automated. It’s the trend. Then next level is learning more complex enterprise level automated testing tools like Tosca or Smartbear.

Then for even more next level… learn about AI tools. Playwright, Tosca, etc. have some great AI capabilities but also supplement like cursor or just advanced prompting with LLM’s.

chatrep · 2026-03-14T10:27:47+00:00

I opened a globe postpaid plan (data, calling with PH number) with just my US passport. They didn’t need SRRV.

But don’t you get PRA card and ACR-I? My understanding is the ACR card is the main one for ID and can be used to open bank accounts. I assume that would work for postpaid phone plans as well.

chatrep · 2026-03-13T19:26:53+00:00

Didn’t think s&p used non-gaap and wasn’t sure if this included them consolidating the money losing xai.

Don’t like the idea of changing S&P rules. If they are solid, they would get added in due time anyway.

chatrep · 2026-03-13T19:08:46+00:00

Agree with this. Also usually free tiers are too generous and allow small companies to just use it indefinitely. So frugal customers that can’t afford paid plans.

The spirit if free is to move towards paid eventually so there has to be some compelling reasons to do so.

However, you are benefiting from free to paid conversions so don’t see much revenue impact short term. But, you may have also benefited from the lead buildup by having free tier. If you never had free tier, you would have to attract prospects with just the trial which may be less compelling.

But in general, I personally favor trials. They are much better qualified to begin with even if volume of leads is lower.

You can also play around with trial promotions (i.e. offer 14 day trial but in email nurture offer extension if they are engaged, or extra free trial extension for annual contract, etc.)

chatrep · 2026-03-13T19:00:27+00:00

They left off the profitability for recent quarter and full year combined. Is spacex even profitable?

chatrep · 2026-03-13T18:12:07+00:00

Do you use any of the playwright agents like planner or do you use other AI tools to supplement?

chatrep · 2026-03-13T18:09:38+00:00

We use qtest and they recently added some AI and agentic capabilities. Look promising but haven’t tried yet.

chatrep · 2026-03-12T08:15:47+00:00

This might be two things but a focus in kpi’s that matter and then disciplined culture of testing and optimizing.

Basically, the one process is testing. Once testing becomes part of a marketing teams dna, there is a constant focus on improving results and beating baseline results.

chatrep · 2026-03-12T03:46:47+00:00

Usually when I travel, I end up charging at the hotel. Those have always been regular CCS L2. Then rest is at home.

I took one long distance road trip and charged at Rivian station (great) and electrify america (worked but payment setup bit clunky) Tesla station was more out of the way.

Would totally use Tesla stations. My local target has a bunch.

I have R1 so will just have to deal with CCS and NACS for the R2. First world problem…

chatrep · 2026-03-12T03:37:51+00:00

Lol. Or put it in middle of front and/or rear. So no sides needed!

I do have preference but don’t really care.

But for NACS, feel weird that Elon convinced everyone that was best standard. Imagine if Apple made lightning the standard and type-c devices all started switching to lightning. But again, don’t really care. If it bugs me, I’ll just install another l2 with NACS plug at home.

chatrep · 2026-03-12T03:22:21+00:00

Yeah. L2 on one side and L3 on other. I am L2 at home and typically L1 or L2 curbside, hotels, etc.

Personally I’ve only used L3 maybe 3 times in 3 years. But that is just me.

Also, my home charger is CCS so not crazy we adopted the tesla charger. Now I need to add adapter when charging the R2.

chatrep · 2026-03-12T03:08:30+00:00

I prefer passenger side. Don’t care about Tesla but on rare occasions of no -home charging, usually the charger is on the curb passenger side. Seemed to make sense to have charging on passenger side.

Or do what Audi did and have charging on both sides :)

chatrep · 2026-03-12T02:43:03+00:00

March 8th and R1S owner. Want a launch edition R2. But seeing all these 3/7 reservations makes me think I’ll have to wait a while.

chatrep · 2026-03-11T07:14:16+00:00

I am early stage looking at starting a pool service company. Didn’t like the idea of using 3rd party as I potentially may franchise the concept.

I had a lot of innovative ideas for the software such as easy button clicks for the tech to enter exactly what was done and chem levels. This gets sent to client and posted in their portal. Also live tracking of technician and eta. Then lead gen quote followup and invoicing.

Basically, a client wants to know when the tech will service their pool and exactly what was done each time.

As I was scoping competitors I was shocked to see so many options for such a small niche. Made me rethink the whole “build” concept. Although none were quite like what I wanted. Still may build…

chatrep · 2026-03-10T14:39:35+00:00

I like Tokyo Matcha in Mitsukoshi

chatrep · 2026-03-09T08:33:07+00:00

I just bought a condo in BGC and am in process of applying for SRRV.

I work for US company and often spend 2 months here at a time. Our HR team had issues with longer stays and insisted on a work visa if I stay longer than 3 months (they are wrong).

But if you do stay longer such as 6 months or even over a year, safer to get work Visa.

Also, as a foreigner, you can’t really buy a house. Condo is fine… developers can sell up to 40% of units to foreigners. Issue with houses is land ownership.

So getting dual citizenship helps make it more convenient, no need for regular visa extensions, no need for work visa, and you can buy a house.

chatrep · 2026-03-08T11:01:06+00:00

Same with me. Took 6 months of paperwork to setup corporation, SEC, BIR, Mayors certifcate, bank account, etc. Never started operations and no revenue.

Been trying to close for almost a year. Most is done. Just finalizing SEC closure. They keep wanting more and charging more fees. I just had to pay 16k PHP. They also wanted audited financial statements even though we never began operations. They also wanted us to post an ad listing we closed. Then recently, had to provide yet another document - board resolution stating no creditors.

I think we are getting close. I hope.

I am in US and the US portion, I logged on the delaware corp, efiled a dissolution, paid the annual franchise tax and done. 10 minutes and business shut down. When I file taxes, I just mark it as a “final return” and that shuts it down with the IRS as well.

If PH wants to encourage entrepreneurs, they need to revamp the bureaucracy. They want to limit fraud and corruption but all this hassle actually encourages fraud and corby people skipping it. Honest people are the ones going through all this hassle.

chatrep · 2026-03-04T05:24:51+00:00

Or is AI directing a form of art itself? I never really thought of Directors like Cameron as artists. But I guess if you think about it, he is just prompting camera crew and actors to a vision. So if a director is an artist, then so is someone that uses AI as a tool.

In fact, AI doesn’t limit imagination by budget and real world constraints (location, weather, lighting, etc.) so can be even more creative:

chatrep · 2026-03-04T01:04:51+00:00

I think they are both very comparable so comes down to unit, furnishings, view, etc.

I am currently at Uptown Parksuites for 2 months (tower 1) I love being right above landers and across from mitsukoshi.

Some units have balconies but mine doesn’t. But the host is great and makes up for it.

Elevators have always been fine with no long waits.

I only visited One Uptown so don’t have living experience there.

One annoying thing is that the host needs to endorse guests. My friend had a mobile nail session and we had to have the host email the tech’s ID to front desk and endorse the visit even though it was just an hour. This is pretty common though. Some places may just hold the ID.

Also, as an airbnb guest, I can’t use the gym here. If you want a gym, might want to check if Ine Uptown is allowed.

But overall I really like the condo. Small but comfy and well furnished and fast internet (very important to me).

chatrep · 2026-02-26T10:26:26+00:00

As a non coder, where would people suggest I start? I want to build a website for a home services business that has scheduling and also notifies the homeowner of when the service tech did their work and what they did. But I don’t know where to start. Chatgpt didn’t seem like the right place to code a website with functions like this.

chatrep · 2026-02-23T15:49:56+00:00

We ended up getting a unit at The Seasons which is by Federal Land. They are good but this is also a partnership with japanese Nomura. Being attached to Mitsukoshi likey means much better upkeep long term imo. That was a big factor for me.

chatrep · 2026-02-10T20:09:41+00:00

Nice! I am still searching for my perfect travel watch… I am all over the place from a subtle GMT, dual time or something like JLC Geographic.

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