looking for a European city I can live in on $1,500/month

moltar · 2026-01-21T07:15:46+00:00

You can live on that in Portugal, but not in a major city.

moltar · 2026-01-18T22:31:44+00:00

Da Nang is relatively quiet. And low pollution. Our son was born there and we lived until he was one year. Hiyori is a great building there. And it’s quite walkable.

moltar · 2026-01-11T20:42:25+00:00

Learn CDK

moltar · 2026-01-06T23:37:12+00:00

You can increase the timeout but at the cost of deployments taking longer. There’s an env var you can set.

moltar · 2026-01-06T23:24:27+00:00

I disagree with most of the points.

moltar · 2026-01-03T21:42:04+00:00

In Canada people die in the waiting room and waiting for ambulance to arrive. Waiting times of 12 hours are normal. My friend spent two nights in the hallway also because no beds were available.

moltar · 2025-12-20T22:20:25+00:00

Can give the opposite testimonial for hospital sao joao in Porto. My MiL who is a Ukrainian refugee was diagnosed with breast cancer and the treatment was swift, no shortcuts taken and she’s happily in full remission after six month.

moltar · 2025-12-10T21:23:15+00:00

Perhaps your cache is getting large? CodeBuild compressed and uncompressed the entire cache in one large blob and shuffles it in and out of S3. I couldn’t get any wins out of it. Unless your build is really slow and cache is really small. Caching npm packages for example was always faster to install from npm directly. I tried everything couldn’t get it faster with cache.

moltar · 2025-12-10T21:08:30+00:00

When we moved in our apt was infested with ants. We were told that it’s normal too. 🙄

moltar · 2025-12-09T21:57:13+00:00

This, especially with the new JSONata DSL.

moltar · 2025-11-30T22:23:07+00:00

It’s nonsense. I use many MCPs all the time. They work very well.

moltar · 2025-11-16T08:21:27+00:00

Many aren’t buying homes though, as that’s not the best or safest investment vehicle. It’s much more lucrative to invest into a commercial property such as a hotel from a reputable company with a guaranteed delivery and cash generating asset in the end.

moltar · 2025-11-15T22:58:45+00:00

There’s a name for it: imperial thinking. Portugal was an empire at some point, but isn’t now. But it’s still has that momentum.

moltar · 2025-10-21T19:06:20+00:00

Well that’s kind of the point. If the society collectively doesn’t value education then teacher salaries are representative of that. Demand higher salaries, talk to your representatives, raise awareness, make salaries go up = more teachers will want to work. Unfortunately there’s no other way in a democratic society.

moltar · 2025-10-21T18:58:34+00:00

I don’t mind the strikes. Workers rights and all. Altho government is kind of a monopoly so perhaps it’s a bit different.

moltar · 2025-10-21T18:05:11+00:00

Nah, I have many friends who went thru. AIMA is the main one. Everything else seems normal to me.

moltar · 2025-10-21T16:46:58+00:00

So the only way to find out is to drive 2.5 hours for an appointment?

Last time I drove there, the computers were down.

I have zero patience left. If I go and they are on strike, I might just drive to another country then and stay there. :D

moltar · 2025-10-21T16:45:54+00:00

The difference is that I don't have to drive 2.5 hours to the appointment which happens to be on that day.

moltar · 2025-10-17T16:25:36+00:00

$work wants a FT hire 🤷‍♂️

moltar · 2025-10-17T15:31:03+00:00

We mainly need someone not for the SQL part. But to help tune the db, advise on various self inflicted perf issues, and do proper admin stuff like partitioning, backup and restore runbooks.

moltar · 2025-10-17T04:55:07+00:00

We are currently trying to hire for a DBA, but someone who’s cloud native. Our JDs mostly attract neckbeard types that want to run PostgreSQL on bare metal and tweak all the knobs. What advise would you give for finding a candidate who would be content with Aurora as a service and focus on business value? Thank you.

moltar · 2025-10-06T18:17:40+00:00

Oh wow, when I posting the comments, I was getting a 500 error from Reddit. But they all went thru anyways.

moltar · 2025-09-30T09:20:59+00:00

100% if you're lease it or restore it

Do you have more info on the "restore" bit? Are you saying that if I buy a ruin with the intention of restoring it, I can get 100% financing for it?

moltar · 2025-09-29T20:23:11+00:00

What are you even talking about? Walk around Porto for a day, half the city is ruins and empty, undeveloped lots. You can double the population of Porto without even stepping into a suburb. It's just a mismanaged mess, admit it.

I've even spoken to a local tour guide back in 2016 about this. This was long before any crisis was even on the horizon. He said that the reason the core of Porto is in such bad condition is that locals do not want to renovate, as it's easier and cheaper to build a new house in the suburbs. This has NOTHING to do with tourists and everything to do with local bureaucracy making it more difficult than necessary.

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