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moltar

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Email: moltar [at] moltar [dot] net
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moltar··on Learn Turbo Pascal – a video series originally released on VHS
My first language!
moltar··on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
Is it like in the car where you have no fuel left but there’s a reserve of another 10 liters?
moltar··on [dead]
Vibe coding at its finest
moltar··on N8n vs. Windmill vs. Temporal
I wonder under what use case would you compare n8n (no code) to temporal (only code). It’s like apples and oranges?
moltar··on A selfie with Netanyahu turns into an employee and customer exodus
You don’t need to be rich to buy a vineyard in Portugal. Many are just a normal part of a village home.
moltar··on Why warm countries are poorer
My additional theory on top of that was that in warm countries nature often provides free food. Don’t need to hustle. Don’t need to hustle to create shelter also. So the environment sort of discourages any extra effort.
moltar··on Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement
I love Typst and have standardized all our company docs on that. Much easier to render neat looking docs. And coding agents are quite capable at making edits.
moltar··on Imagining a language without booleans
Perl
moltar··on If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.

What’s the best way to review AI code?

I wish I had a local, GitHub PR review-like experience where I can leave comments for the agent.

moltar··on Europe is locking itself in to US LNG
Like US would allow that to happen. This has been discussed for over a decade.
moltar··on Americans crushed by auto loans as defaults and repossessions surge
As I understand one of the primary reasons is also that people do not finish the previous car payments and just roll them forward to the next new car. Dealerships and loan makers of course enable that behaviour.
moltar··on Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments
Not simplified much. By the silly rules in the US, during the transfer you must go thru immigration and even get your bags and check them in again.

Yes there’s pre clearance in Canada. This would ease the border a bit. But there’s still a risk that something somewhere will go wrong.

The main reason I stoped routing thru the US 10 years ago wasn’t ICE. I didn’t like the way border agents were rude and disrespectful. I felt like I was being interrogated every time and didn’t feel welcomed there. So I decided to vote with my wallet and simply not fly thru.

moltar··on Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments
Same, and I’m from Canada. Lots of international flights route thru the US. I have to make extra effort to avoid. Been doing that for 10 years. Just not worth the risk.
moltar··on Show HN: ZeroFS, the Filesystem That Makes S3 Your Primary Storage
Has anyone tried it as a cache dir in CI? I’m concerned about random reads looking pretty slow in the benchmarks.
moltar··on Code Is Debt
It’s a 100% liability when AI manages it.
moltar··on Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired
Honestly these numbers don’t seem to change. I’ve had 200 resumes in 2002 posted on a Canadian government jobs board (for private sector) and the resulting resumes were like 2 good ones. Then about ten years ago a job posting on Stack Overflow attracted 450 applicants in a few days. Most were spam.

The only difference is that spam these days is custom tailored using AI. And it makes weeding out bad resumes more difficult. But absolute numbers remain about the same I’d say.

moltar··on Every industry is an overcrowded airport lounge now
I think that’s the deeper point the article was making. The people are more poor on average that the majority are required to penny pinch and thereby businesses compete on lower prices and nothing else matters anymore.
moltar··on GPT-realtime and Realtime API updates
I’m interested.
moltar··on I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can
Try Orb docker. It is fast. It ha a Kubernetes cluster feature.
moltar··on Blue-collar jobs are gaining popularity as AI threatens office work
But you need to realize that both professions aren’t valued the same everywhere.

In my childhood in the Soviet Union “plumber” was what parents scared their kids with “if you don’t study, you’ll become a plumber”. And that profession was extremely undesirable and didn’t pay well.

Also in many SEA countries both professions aren’t paid well.

I think in North America it’s different because it’s highly regulated and barrier for entry is high.

moltar··on Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?
I am glad to hear that the content still works. I thought ChatGPT would kill all SEO and content marketing.
moltar··on Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?
I was thinking of doing something similar. I think I’m well positioned for this as I have a natural ability to juggle many contexts, I used to run a software agency, and I’m pretty good at architecture early on which means solutions come out more robust and flexible. I have had really good experience with AI tools and I’m constantly evolving my workflows.

I’m wondering how did you land your current gigs?

Thank you.

moltar··on Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong
Same in Canada but in specially made taxi grade Crown Vics (85B)

Someone I knew had it and they drove it 24/7 in 3 shifts and it had over a million kilometers on it. Visually looked fine and ran fine.

moltar··on Gemini CLI GitHub Actions
Totally agree. It’s so surprising that I spent almost an hour trying to figure out how to make Gemini collaborate with me on a Google Document as a kind of artifact. I was sure I was just holding it wrong. I couldn’t believe it wasn’t a feature. Even when I gave up I was still unsure if maybe my account isn’t on the right tier or something.
moltar··on The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy
Sorry, I don’t know. Any clues?

I like fixing problems.

moltar··on The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy
How can I get a job like that?
moltar··on Self-employed, self-exhausted
I also don’t like stereotypical vacations and get bored on day 1.

Vacations don’t need to be stereotypical though. To me vacation nowadays means simply taking a break from my main money earning activity (typically a job, but I had a business before too).

When I travel these days I don’t even plan anything. Just land in the city and let it be. Just wonder around and explore. That’s it.

moltar··on Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
Yeah, I realized this one time while watching a documentary on some tribes hunting methods. They were hunting by running after the animal until it basically dropped from exertion. Hunters didn’t sprint. They paced but continuously and simply followed animals foot prints and droppings. They said these hunters would run for many hours each time. And sometimes they’d even be unsuccessful.
moltar··on Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused
Thank you for the thoughtful and thorough response!
moltar··on Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused
Since you appear to be quite knowledgeable on the matter, I wonder what’s your opinion on Cholesterol Code and Dave Feldman? Thank you.
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