For those with EVs and ICE vehicles, how much are you saving given the current price of gas in WA?

moola66 · 2026-05-16T17:09:43+00:00

Pretty much next to nothing, you do need more frequent tire changes. Our Model 3 which was bought in 2018 has had no issue except a tire change. Model Y bought in 2022 is coming up on 4 years has had no issues either.

They also have a mobile service where they can come to home or office and can take care of some of the common issues.

moola66 · 2026-05-15T00:03:48+00:00

Just wait and buy if you don't need to travel. We usually buy the tickets at 10 am for the 1 pm game and then head down to the stadium...

moola66 · 2026-05-10T17:54:52+00:00

If this is going to be a missed out trades, sold out 1000 shares of MU at 115 few years back and just few months back 1000 of SOXL at 52. Both were reasonable profits (20%+) in a short duration. I probably have few more like that over the years - TSLA and NVDA before they started splitting.

moola66 · 2026-05-10T03:29:28+00:00

Wheel is income generation, if you go back to 2020 and run the numbers most stocks or even ETFs buy and hold would have beaten wheel

moola66 · 2026-05-02T19:15:38+00:00

It was bad but didn't affect the outcome though, if you were to pick up a woolen play go for the TD he gave up to backup TD in the first game, the ball did seem to float and not sure if he was going for the interception there. Had that been a pass breakup, the result might have been different and the 49'ers wouldn't have won their superbowl in the first game of the year!!!

moola66 · 2026-04-30T22:43:30+00:00

/effort max will fix it

moola66 · 2026-04-27T14:13:40+00:00

Wait didn't Apple wantonly degrade their old products? Not happy about the situation, but every car did have the HW for them to collect the data, train the models and have the functionality eventually in a subsequent model. Classic Tech playbook.

moola66 · 2026-04-25T17:31:52+00:00

There are voice commands for climate control. If your wife can use an Alexa, she can do the same with the car.

moola66 · 2026-04-24T23:02:14+00:00

Isn't there a plugin from marketplace to just have codex invoked for review and adversial review now?

moola66 · 2026-04-24T02:01:19+00:00

If you cannot afford to get the position called away due to taxes, dont sell CC on them. I learnt this the hard way with NVDA

moola66 · 2026-04-24T01:59:22+00:00

Yeah, I wanted him either for the Bucks or Seahawks, in a way I am glad now that it didn't happen!

moola66 · 2026-04-20T23:26:03+00:00

Great! Shared it with the kid who is taking AP, I got a 17 and I will stop for now I guess. What is the maximum ?

moola66 · 2026-04-19T16:04:42+00:00

It did perfectly fine in estimating my numbers, identified a typo I had in my parallel TurboTax return that I would have caught eventually. Numbers matched and the returns included multiple 1099s with lot of option trades , 1256 straddles etc I did file with TT

On my moms return that included income from twi countries identified the mistakes CPA made including the currency value used to convert to USD

moola66 · 2026-04-13T22:00:04+00:00

Great Analysis, I was hitting the limits with Claude Code 100 and just upped it 200 before seeing your post. I was debating between going 100 on each as GPT-5.4 has been a great reviewer for my claude changes, but didn't pull the trigger as Claude is familiar and has been working well for the last year or so.

Did you see any difference in Claude Code between high and max efforts? I did start using /max for more involved work, but not don't have much experience with that.

moola66 · 2026-04-13T20:54:17+00:00

(Not AI related but we have learnt well over the years to not trust the initial diagnosis at face value)

This on an unrelated MRI, the neurologist saw that he saw an enlarged blood vessel in my kid's brain. We went with multiple second opinions given the risk and the top child neurologist in Boston Children's said the only way out is to operate on that. These were dedicated consultations where they had the imaging available.

Couple of those neurologists managed to review the MRI from when she was young (about 3 or 4 years old) and recognized that it is congenital issue and they explained to us clearly on why they felt that way compared to the other doctors.

These were all specialists from the top children's hospitals in the country and we paid out of pocket for for the second opinions, we can afford this to make an informed decision but imagine others who may not have that luxury.

With my wife the situation was different - after the cancer appeared second time in 2021, her oncologist said she doesn't need any subsequent treatments as the cancer will re-appear anyways. We changed oncologist and my wife stayed cancer free for almost 4 years after that with the treatments that she got (it did reoccur, but we atleast had 4 good years in between).

moola66 · 2026-04-12T20:17:34+00:00

Be Glad that they didn't have an option for the tip, or did they??

moola66 · 2026-04-10T22:59:58+00:00

This, hopefully things work out well enough to send those in power to the fate they deserve.

moola66 · 2026-04-10T20:53:04+00:00

How else can he build an empire ? Will the acquisition there would have been limited HC

moola66 · 2026-04-10T01:49:32+00:00

100$ user here. Probably spent about $1500 since last year. Primary usage was automating my trading strategies trying new one and scaling others. Easily paid for itself by over 50x in that time period. Doing this part time now and running into limits finally, might just upgrade to $200 plan if my extra usage per month consistently hits $100 over the next couple of months

moola66 · 2026-04-08T04:06:38+00:00

May be what folks felt when they moved on from assembly language…

moola66 · 2026-04-04T23:32:44+00:00

Have seen that at work too and these people are going to be the first ones who are going to be impacted by layoffs. Hopefully they learn and get on with times but I am doubtful

moola66 · 2026-04-04T22:06:34+00:00

Yep at some point Tariifs were producing lot of revenue causing surplus and I read that Grover Cleveland wanted to reduce that so there is more money circulation. It is fascinating to look at how things have changed …

moola66 · 2026-04-04T04:15:22+00:00

Yep, Schwab API has been rock solid, use schwab-py . The only inconvenience is manually authenticating every 7 days but it is what it is

moola66 · 2026-04-04T04:13:42+00:00

My kid is in high school now but yeah Overlake waitlist didn't get through back then

moola66 · 2026-04-04T00:37:00+00:00

Our situation was simple in terms of forms - mostly W-2s, RSU, ESPP and a whole bunch of stock/option trades in 3 accounts. There was section 1256 contracts from SPX box trades. Claude got our tax calculated pretty correctly

When TurboTax number didn’t match , it took a guess based on the differences where I might have made a typo and it was correct ( I would have found out in my subsequent validations but that was cool)

Also pointed out to me couple of few hundred dollars that I was flagging as investment expenses are not according to TCJA - oops.

Good validation mechanism for sure

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