Gobd's comments

Gobd | 1 month ago | on: Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

Nothing can stop the tower equipment manufacturer like Ericsson from knowing the location of your phone and cooperating with advertising or mobile tracking compainies to aggregate that data in useful ways. If you have a phone, people that want your location have it and there is nothing you can do.

Gobd | 7 months ago | on: Go 1.25 Release Notes

Yay new version! Not the most exciting (as Go releases tend to be which is good), but hopefully jsonv2 and greentea can get some testing and be standard in 1.26

Gobd | 1 year ago | on: Navtive FlameGraphViewer

    I tried to find something fast and native. Saying "native" I mean something which doesn't require a browser.
Uses a browser which doesn't meet the requirements they set.

Gobd | 2 years ago | on: Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter

I don't know what 529 you guys invested in but Utah's 529 which anyone can use whether or not they live in Utah allows you to invest in regular old Vanguard funds like VSTSX. They also offer target dates funds that handle gradually shifting to a more conservative allocation as enrollment date nears if that's what you want.

I agree that not all 529s are good, only 2 plans received a gold rating from Morningstar in 2022: Utah & Michigan. I wouldn't choose anything other than those.

Gobd | 4 years ago | on: Old.reddit.com Is Down

I thought the same in the other post, try this someone suggested: That's probably because you have it set to show the old interface by default. Go to new.reddit.com and it should work fine.

Gobd | 7 years ago | on: Why parking minimums almost destroyed my town and how we repealed them (2017)

I agree with this idea, amusingly the parking lot used to be pay to park then the town made it free. I don't see a problem with charging a minimum, then hourly up to a max, just make sure it's cheap enough, maybe max $8 a day. This would give the town money to use to help the problem, either more parking or better public transit options.

Gobd | 7 years ago | on: Why parking minimums almost destroyed my town and how we repealed them (2017)

I used to live in Sandpoint, and the large city parking is full very often forcing people to park on the street where it's a 3 hour or so limit. I always rode my bike (yes even in the winter) but it's challenging for tourists visiting the beach or shopping in the summer to find parking. Also very few people ride their bike in the winter with all the snow & ice, and that's when there are the fewest parking spots since the snow piled up cuts the size of the city lot in half.

I always thought a park and ride would do well there so tourists could park out of downtown and take a bus to downtown or the beach.

It's not a big problem, but I couldn't imagine the city having less parking.

Gobd | 11 years ago | on: Should You Buy an Electric Car?

A quick search on my local classifieds section shows a 2006 for $6,000, and a 2008 for $10,000, all the way to a 2011 (with rebuilt title) for $7,500 and everything in between. Used cars are almost always a better choice.

Gobd | 11 years ago | on: Should You Buy an Electric Car?

These articles never mention the option of buying a regular used car. What if I buy a used Honda Civic for $8,000, a car like that can easily last 10 years, and beat every car in their table on total 5 year cost even with thousands in repairs.

Also they mention 18% loss of battery pack capacity in only 2 years. It seems like someone might want to buy a new battery pack after 5 years and I wonder how much that would cost. I really want to buy an electric car, but they just don't make sense to me yet.

page 1