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Email: moltar [at] moltar [dot] net
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moltar··on Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused
Have you seen/read cholesterol code? It doesn't deny cholesterol but rather has interesting, and unusual findings.

https://cholesterolcode.com/

There’s a good talk as well that presents this information in a very accessible way:

https://youtu.be/jZu52duIqno?si=NCEf4UGtgHG9sBOP

moltar··on How to Firefox
Script with Playwright?
moltar··on How to Firefox
Interesting. I don’t notice any difference in stock browsers. With a ton of privacy extensions I do feel FF gets a bit laggy but that’s a price I’m willing to pay. On chrome I can’t even do these things.
moltar··on Stellantis declares bankruptcy in China, with $1B in debts
Doesn’t seem to stop them. I see more and more on the roads in Portugal. Even started appearing in car rentals recently.
moltar··on Let Me Pay for Firefox
Yes!

Telegram is a good example of a public app that was free, and bleeding, they introduced paid features and are profitable.

Never they forced you to pay for existing stuff, nor sold your soul on the way to profitability.

moltar··on Dépanneurs
Not to mention the road stop sign screams ARRÊT
moltar··on Dépanneurs
Deps had delivery before it was cool. Typically it’s some unemployed old neighborhood drunkard dude on a bike. You call a dep, they dispatch a dude.

Most people had a dep number on a fridge magnet back in the day.

moltar··on Dépanneurs
The entire chain or just the Canadian lot?
moltar··on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
And open source tools like aider are, of course, even more validated and get more eyes.

Plus recently launched OpenCode, open source CC is gaining traction fast.

There was always very little moat in the model wrapper.

The main value of CC is the free tool built by people who understand all the internals of their own models.

moltar··on Matt Trout has died
Eh remember him from IRC days
moltar··on Magic .env files built for sharing: Human-first, AI-friendly
Oh great, anti pattern now has a schema
moltar··on Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi
Funny, I also got this channel suggested by YT algo and watched some of the videos.
moltar··on I could not convince my k8s team to go AWS serverless
I can do all of the stacks well, including serverless described or pure ECS Fargate or Kubernetes.

From my experience Kubernetes is the most complex with most foot guns and most churn.

moltar··on Vancouver man says institutions unable to recognize new Indigenous street name
Canadian banks are probably still on some IBM mainframes. There’s no chance they’ll support this full character set anytime soon.
moltar··on Ask HN: Selling software to company I work for as an employee
I see this as an opportunity to not use YAML and use a better IaC framework like AWS CDK or Pulumi where you can write expressive code in many languages and can use full language features including DRY declaration of constants in a single place.
moltar··on Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools?
What kind of tasks you give Codex?

I gave it an honest chance, but couldn’t get a single PR out of it. It would just continue to make mistakes. And even when it got close I asked it a minor tweak and it made things worse. I iterated 7 times on the same small problem.

moltar··on Ask HN: How are you cleaning and transforming data before imports/uploads?
Dbt
moltar··on Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?
Try this experiment. Install a few apps, like Time Doctor and Wakatime to track where you spend most of your time while on the computer for work purposes.

After a week, take note of how many hours you spend actually writing code.

I won’t share my exact count, but it’s shockingly low in relation to all of the hours spent working.

My bottleneck to more productive output is 100% not “unable to write more code faster”. It’s actually people. Other people.

moltar··on Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
Bear if you are on a Mac
moltar··on EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027
Tell it to Portuguese banks. Run around forever.
moltar··on Cursor hits $9B valuation
EE monies?
moltar··on Swill Milk Scandal
And pizza is a vegetable.
moltar··on Ask HN: why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers?
In some EU countries like Portugal you are also required to pay quite handsome severance based on years worked. Between 15 and 45 days of base salary for each year of service, with a minimum of three months’ salary.
moltar··on Vit D supplementation to prevent acute resp infections: review and meta-analysis
Recommend dminder app for an illuminated way to count D intake from both sun and supps.
moltar··on Vit D supplementation to prevent acute resp infections: review and meta-analysis
Not possible with diet alone.
moltar··on How University Students Use Claude
Can do the work the next day to reinforce.

As I said there are countries without homework and they seem to do ok. So it’s not mandatory by any means.

moltar··on How University Students Use Claude
I think it’s finally time to just stop the homework.

All school work must be done within the walls of the school.

What are we teaching our children? It’s ok to do more work at home?

There are countries that have no homework and they do just fine.

moltar··on Christine Lagarde wants EU to ditch Visa, Mastercard for own platform
Russia did it.

I’m sure EU could, if they wanted to.

moltar··on Show HN: Cloud-Ready Postgres MCP Server
There are LLM SQL benchmarks. [1] And state of the art solution is still only at 77% accuracy. Would you trust that?

[1] https://bird-bench.github.io/

moltar··on Andrej Karpathy on the State of Web Development
Is there a standard way to build a useful multi-story building yet?
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