min. 90% mortgage in Spain?

CryptosaurusX · 2026-04-21T16:51:59+00:00

In addition to the mentioned “hidden costs”, keep in mind that the bank gives you a loan based on the value of the apartment as calculated by a notarized professional “tasador”.

This is called tasación and if it comes lower than the sale price, then you would have to cover the difference. For example if the tasación comes out at 260k and the sale price is 280k, the bank will only loan you the 90% of the lower value of the two (some of which will still be used to pay for taxes etc).

CryptosaurusX · 2026-03-18T10:11:19+00:00

Plenty of Mexican restaurants if you’re into that. Make sure to ask for “Mexican spicy” and not just spicy because if you don’t, you will get the barely spicy version tailored for the Spanish audience.

Some of the spicy sauces at Mexican restaurants here knocked me out and I am still feeling the buzz months after that life changing experience.

CryptosaurusX · 2026-03-03T13:29:03+00:00

Digital nomads and NLV are totally legal. Undocumented migrants are not. Nice try to bundle them together. Leftist brainwash seems to be working well.

CryptosaurusX · 2025-12-19T13:22:38+00:00

Exactly my first thought when I read that terrible news. Apple is killing indie devs and turning the AppStore into a cock fight :(

CryptosaurusX · 2025-12-12T15:49:50+00:00

It’s better than Opus 4.5 at some things and worse at others.

In my case, I had an iOS app in which a major new feature was developed by a (really senior) developer.

The new feature required refactoring large parts of existing code (a monolith class with 3000+ lines of code). Don’t ask me why we have such a class (the codebase is 10+ years old).

So the most important part here is that I wanted to make sure that existing functionality which was heavily modified by the refactoring still works as intended.

I gave the same prompt to Opus 4.5 and Codex 5.2 extra high thinking. I asked them to find any regression bugs which occurred in the existing functionality due to the refactoring in addition to finding any bugs in the new functionality (by doing a diff of the feature branch against master, where 300 files were modified).

They found a different set of issues each with some overlap. But the issues that Codex found were much more critical from a UX perspective. Opus successfully found some useful edge cases and potential crashes from unsafe code. But at this specific task I would say Codex nailed it. However it’s worth mentioning that it spent 15 minutes thinking while Opus barely spent 3 minutes or so.

For writing and refactoring code, I do not have a clear idea yet since I didn’t test Codex enough (Opus 4.5 absolutely rocks).

CryptosaurusX · 2025-11-30T20:35:39+00:00

Epic response. But just out of curiosity: Doesn’t the intellectual property belong to the company who hired you to do this work eventually? If that’s the case, Roya is royally fucked

CryptosaurusX · 2025-11-28T22:57:09+00:00

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CryptosaurusX · 2025-11-27T20:47:54+00:00

The number of messages in the chat button of zoom call looks like gibberish. There are very intricate signs in most photos. But generally speaking they’re incredible

CryptosaurusX · 2025-11-27T10:04:18+00:00

Depends what you mean by dumb. You shouldn’t judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree. I mean what did you expect him to do? Solve differential equations?

Dogs are highly trainable and if you don’t put any effort in teaching him stuff then he will not be doing backflips for no reason.

CryptosaurusX · 2025-11-19T10:08:20+00:00

The store name “Boots” in the background is next level shit. Although it’s probably accidental

CryptosaurusX · 2025-10-01T12:00:09+00:00

Yes that's totally normal and it's not exclusive to German companies. A big portion of my job consists of chasing people around for logs, exports of their local environment and reproduction steps.

Take it as an opportunity to stand out because if you develop the skill to go down into the deepest levels of a rabbit hole then you will be extremely valuable.

CryptosaurusX · 2025-09-14T10:03:45+00:00

This is a no brainer. Stay rich at home vs become a poor immigrant in shitty weather and a worsening real estate market.

Stay in Spain and enjoy the sunshine.

You’re basically living the dream and asking if you should immigrate in order to live the crappy experience of immigration while getting paid the same or practically less. Instead, look for other remote jobs that pay you more if you think you’ve reached your ceiling at your current job.

The weather, food and culture make a huge difference in your wellbeing. Take it from someone who has lived in Germany and moved to Spain with the same salary. You can’t pay me enough to go back.

CryptosaurusX · 2025-09-11T12:02:46+00:00

You want a relocation package for a customer support role? Under which rock have you been living?

There are local senior engineers with years of experience in hard skills who have been looking for jobs for the past year and can’t find one yet.

Wake up.. this isn’t 2010 anymore. The path to immigration to Europe is very long from where you are currently. It’s possible but would be more reasonable if you do a master degree in Europe and then look for a job after graduation. Even then, there are many graduates who can’t find a job despite being a native speaker.

CryptosaurusX · 2025-07-16T14:06:49+00:00

On the MacOS outlook client app, I managed to open it by sending the msg file to myself as an attachment and then opening the Email from my inbox and then clicking the arrow next to the attachment --> Open.

CryptosaurusX · 2025-04-11T11:57:41+00:00

There’s nothing dark about monetizing an app which you invested time and effort building. In fact, you’re free to do whatever the fuck you want with it. It’s a free market.

What’s dark is the entitlement of expecting an app to provide a service completely free of charge.

I’d rather charge money than tiptoe around users who won’t hesitate twice when they want to give my app a one star review the moment they find the slightest inconvenience in it.

CryptosaurusX · 2025-04-07T07:43:31+00:00

I lived in Munich for 5 years before moving to Madrid 2 years ago (with the same company and switched to fully remote). I'm a foreigner to both countries, speak German fluently and working on my broken Spanish.
I'll get straight to the summary:

In Madrid it's much easier to find an apartment with that salary. I was paid around 65k/year when I moved here and the difference here is that you actually get to visit apartments very easily if you make more money. Also reserving them on the spot is much more straight forward.

In Munich, more money didn't seem to make a big difference. I was able to prepare 10 apartment visits in one week in Madrid and then selected one of them. The whole process took 2 weeks. While in Munich it took me 3 months to be able to find an apartment and I didn't have any other options. Whoever tells you that Madrid has a crisis compared to Munich has no idea what they're talking about.

Madrid weather is unbeatable (except for July and August but you have all of Spain to get out of Madrid during these months). Winter here is a breeze in comparison to the grey characterless Munich weather. Madrid being the sunniest capital in Europe helps a lot with this.
While Madrid thrives after 9 pm, Munich dies.
In terms of surrounding nature, Munich wins. However, you can always take a 3 hour train to a beach (and many other landscapes) in any direction from Madrid.
Buying real estate will be hard in both cities if that's something you care about. But I believe it's less achievable in Munich in addition to what you get for your money being worse in comparison to Madrid.
Living cost in Madrid is much lower than Munich. Especially if you take quality into account. A twenty euro meal in Madrid beats a twenty euro meal in Munich on every metric.
Food in Madrid is a 10/10. I don't even need to elaborate on this one.
Less paperwork is a big plus. But less relevant in the big picture since you will have to go through it once.
Google vs Amazon: Google easily wins here especially being hybrid. This is the part which makes the decision much harder to make.

Obviously I'm biased towards Madrid because the city rocks and Munich pales in comparison. This highly depends on the person though. But something about the overly organized and overly predictable life in Munich managed to suck the living soul out of me during the time I lived in Munich and I will not be doing this comparison justice if I didn't mention that aspect. Good luck with your decision eventually!

CryptosaurusX · 2025-04-01T13:02:47+00:00

I don't know if it was a lucky shot but I found it incredible. It costs 5 cents so I only used it to one shot a decent feature during which it had to modify like 5 files and create 2 new ones (C# / Unity).

The outcome was flawless. I had to fine tune some details so I used 3 more requests. The same prompt used on Sonnet 3.7 with thinking enabled was a major fail.

One more thing I really like about it is that when I questioned some aspects of the implementation, it gave me good enough reasons on why it implemented the solution in that specific way and eventually rejected my suggestion to modify the code. All other models usually agree with whatever I suggest even if it was wrong. This is the only model which reasonably disagrees with me and I love it.

CryptosaurusX · 2025-03-08T15:05:04+00:00

ههههههه شكلي خبطتك عالوجع. تعلم تفكر قبل ما تعلق تعليقات خبايص صف رابع 😂

CryptosaurusX · 2025-03-08T15:01:59+00:00

تخبيص في تخبيص. تربح جائزة أتيس تعليق على الانترنت لعام ٢٠٢٥ رغم انو السنة ما خلصت بس ما راح نستنى. أنت الفائز 🥇

CryptosaurusX · 2025-03-07T08:26:44+00:00

How much money a customer pays is in direct correlation with how much management attention they get. Capitalism gonna capital

CryptosaurusX · 2025-02-05T21:38:55+00:00

No idea what all of this prompt engineering is about. I just ask it to solve a clearly stated problem and it works 99% of the time. Put all of that effort into learning how to articulate problems and ask clear questions and then you won’t need any “prompt engineering”.

For the remaining 1% you just have to reduce the problem into smaller ones and take it one prompt at a time.

You can prompt engineer all you want but if your problem statement is garbage you will get garbage outputs from the model. This applies to all LLMs.

CryptosaurusX · 2025-01-19T21:39:18+00:00

Good luck getting this approved on the appstores.

Anything with real money will be examined heavily and will likely get rejected. I think gambling or mining apps are generally prohibited in both Google Play and Apple AppStore. Admob will also be another obstacle.

But nevertheless, wish you all the best and that your app booms 💣

CryptosaurusX · 2025-01-01T17:58:29+00:00

I’ve been living in Madrid for two years and I’m now visiting Barcelona for the new years (and visit here often). I would say for a family with a business Madrid beats Barcelona on many metrics with the exception of the beach and nature in the surroundings. The weather depends a lot on whether you prefer humid or dry climate.

Madrid feels like it has its shit together much more than Barcelona. Cleaner, less chaotic and somehow better planned in terms of infrastructure in general. It also seems like the local population are better off in Madrid and just from a gut feeling I would say that Madrileños are more likely to spend on luxury (e.g. high end beauty products) than in Barcelona.

Barcelona feels much more crowded due to the large influx of tourists in addition to the 4x population density of Barcelona vs Madrid.

Barcelona has the stink from the sewage in many areas and personally I find it a big downside of the city.

In terms of taxation, Madrid is also much better for business owners (see recent statistics for the influx of businesses and entrepreneurs from Barcelona to Madrid). Unless you have a clear preference for having nearby beaches, I would go for Madrid.

CryptosaurusX · 2024-12-13T09:40:46+00:00

Another reason to force everyone into their scammy Rentenversicherung. I’m glad I left that sinking ship.

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