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My long-planned solo birthday trip to Ireland this September hit a small snag a few days ago. I got an email from AARP/Expedia letting me know the property I’d booked at had permanently closed.

Crap. I’m kind of upset. I’m a very picky person when it comes to accommodation, both budget conscious and unwilling to stay in places that are uncomfortable. It’s part of the reason I book everything like 6-12 months in advance. It’s also like the only thing I *must* have preplanned for my sanity. Luckily, I’d booked through AARP and they offered to book me a new room at no extra cost.

Initially they offered me a mediocre looking guesthouse in Clifden, it was fine but not as nice as what I’d booked originally. I’m not one to make a fuss to an underpaid call center employee, but I asked for other options and was offered the Abbeyglen Castle Hotel for no extra cost. The room I’d booked was €95/night, the rooms at Abbeyglen are €300+/night. I jumped at the chance because I’ve driven by this hotel three other times in different trips and it’s just the most gorgeous thing I’ve ever seen but it’s so far out of my budget it’s just never been possible. A €700 stay for just €200 AND on my birthday trip? I’m floating. Probably won’t get the chance to stay somewhere this nice for another 5-10 years.

Anyway, all this to say that I am constantly reminded that flexibility is the most important skill to cultivate when learning to travel. I have a tendency to panic when things change at short notice, but sometimes you end up with something better than you originally had. Strive for adaptability in your life.

* It completed the first task I gave it decently (taking a list of 200 companies I found on a Forbes link spread out over five pages, and putting them into a spreadsheet), especially compared with Deep Research which I tried to get to do the same task yesterday and failed miserably. However, even though the agent was able to ultimately complete the task, it stopped working several times due to context limits and confusion, and had to be re-prompted.
* Continuing on from the above task, I then asked it to find the LinkedIn links for every company and put them in a new column in the spreadsheet. ~~Again, it achieved this pretty admirably but it stopped several times and needed to be told to “continue”.~~ **EDIT -** I just looked at the spreadsheet and it didn’t actually complete the task. It stopped halfway through, leaving half of the spreadsheet entries without a Linkedin link.
* It appears that Agent can’t open and read PDF documents when linked on a webpage. It will click the link, but the tab it opens up in its browser is blank.
* I tried to ask it to complete several steps on a website that involved clicking on different links and putting some documents into different “stages”. It followed the first part of my instructions, but completely ignored the second part. **I try to prompt it very explicitly, just like I’m explaining to a person. Maybe this is not the right approach?**
* The “browsing context” limit appears to be really short. Maybe that’s common knowledge for everyone else. I’m not a power user, so I haven’t come up against this problem before. I tried an experiment where I asked the agent to log into my grocery store account, look at all my purchases from 2025, dedupe them, and put it into a spreadsheet. It did decently from a technical standpoint (clicking around on the right things, putting into a spreadsheet in the correct format, etc), but it gave up far before completing the task due to running out of browser context.

I haven’t found any task yet that I could just “set and forget” like in the OpenAI videos. Every task needed to be babysat from afar just incase it stopped halfway through (which each one did).

As I said at the beginning, there is a ton of potential here, and I’m going to keep testing. It was exciting to see it complete the one task successfully, and attempt to complete the others.

**Is anyone else coming up against the browser context limit?**

**Has anyone else been able to get it to open and read PDFs by clicking on a link in a browser?**

I’ve day trade successfully in 2024 (always cash out before market close). I was making 2k USD+ per trading day for about 7 months consistently causing my ego to balloon that I finally figured it out after years of learning the stock market. Doesn’t matter if the it goes up, down, it’s just green by end of day. Hence, I felt invincible and untouchable. Even sent a nice resignation letter to my previous job.

Until…

I tilted one day and lost to my emotions and broke pretty much all my rules and went the unspeakable, forbidden no-no. I went… yolo. I was simply like Icarus.

Good thing I’m always on cash accounts. In a nutshell my finance basically ended up like your average joe smuck.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t trade for a while after that blow because my strategy requires significant capital to safely execute.

But after a year, I’m closer to my ideal capital again to execute my strategy.

But this time.

I’m trying to get the emotion out of the equation. Hence, algo trading. What I learned from that experience is my worst enemy is myself.

I have fullstack knowledge in web dev. Enough to build my own web apps and launch them.

Here’s the setup I’m thinking. Forgive me as I never done algo trading before. Only manual day trading (specifically scalp trades – 250+trades or more per day)

– I’m thinking of building my own private web app that communicate to a broker using restapi. The broker has a way to send market data on a specific stock (ideally in json) especially option ask/bid price and I my web app will communicate back also (ideally in json) to execute trades.

So I’m looking for a broker that accomodate that kind of trading even if there are monthly or data fees involved. A Canadian or a US broker is preferred. I’ve been a user of questrade. I just need broker names, and I will start from that direction.

Thanks in advance.

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I want to take a trip to Switzerland in the next year or two and I’m looking for some feedback on my budget and itinerary.

**Where am I coming from?** Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

**When do I plan to go?** Spring/summer

**Who am I bringing?** Just myself

**How long am I planning to stay?** 9 days with flights included

**What type of lodging do I prefer?** B&B, AirBNB, or hotels.

**Food?** I’ll probably eat somewhere nice once or twice. Other than that, I’m mostly going to be buying food from a grocery store.

**What do I want to do?** Bungee jumping off the Verzasca dam (dam jump from the 007 movie Goldeneye) and driving/biking/hiking the Furka Pass (from Goldfinger) are the two big activities. The aerial trams and trains look pretty cool too. Other than that, I’m mostly going to be exploring and sightseeing. Is there anything else in Switzerland that may interest me?

**Budget?** Would $5000 CAD including airfare and car rental be a realistic budget for what I have planned?

Thanks!

My idea would be to place a web3 advertisment link on top of an advertisment page in order to receive rewards in tokens to my crypto wallet address for each clicks people made on their browsers (basically some sort of web3 alternative to google ads network but with tokens and wallet addresses instead of centralized web services) but I have little to no clue on how to actually pull this off aside from a few vague ideas of embedding my crypto add link to a page or qr code to be scanned by the recipient. The only thing I need would be a receiver address to reap my token rewards, a crypto platform serving me token add links that I can deliver to others, and some traffic (I’m not demanding big numbers since I still consider myself a beginner for that matter). Feel free to share any ideas you might have with me.

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