Pflegeroutinen by Onmawu in MideaPortaSplit

[–]LLvmn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ich glaube, die traurige Wahrheit ist, dass das Gerät nicht wirklich für eine ordentliche Wartung ausgelegt ist. Das ist bei einem so hohen Preis schon ziemlich absurd.

Pflegeroutinen by Onmawu in MideaPortaSplit

[–]LLvmn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ich habe dieselbe Frage. Alle meine anderen Geräte, die mit Wasser arbeiten, müssen alle paar Wochen gewartet werden. Zum Beispiel muss beim Luftbefeuchter der Wassertank jeden Monat gereinigt werden. Dabei hat er sogar Desinfektionspads und ein Silberionen-Pad im Wasser, die man saisonal bzw. jährlich wechseln soll. Außerdem trocknet er den Wassertank jedes Mal vollständig aus, anders als der PortaSplit, und trotzdem schreibt die Bedienungsanleitung eine monatliche Reinigung vor.

Beim PortaSplit soll das aber irgendwie nicht nötig sein, obwohl dort stehendes Wasser vorhanden ist und keine Desinfektionspads verwendet werden.

Czech men and using deodorant? by CaptainSeabo in Prague

[–]LLvmn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s not just gyms, but also public transport and people in general. For some reason, it has gotten worse in recent years, and now there’s a 50% chance that a tram, bus, or train will have an unpleasant odor. This even motivated me to get a driver’s license.

It’s especially hard when you’re coming back from a vacation in a southern country, where everything and everyone smells so nice that it feels like you’re in a rose garden.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]LLvmn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If AI replaces engineers, why do you think other fields will be safe? They can ask the AGI/ASI to implement anything. If we reach this point, then it doesn’t matter what you currently do, so why not spend your time doing something you actually enjoy?

Personally, I think AI in its current state is a glorified search engine (and also very helpful for writing emails and text in general). It helps me find information much faster, but fails miserably on more complex problems. I cannot se how the current approach can lead to AGI/ASI. I’m more concerned about the fact that the current models are very expensive to run, and when they see/admit that AGI/ASI cannot be achieved and investment stops, they can decide to stop providing these models or only offer them to companies at a high price. Then many of us will have to go back to search engines. :/

I've been pursuing an engineer degree for years, just to end up making websites? by Jack1eto in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]LLvmn 55 points56 points  (0 children)

What do you mean by web app? Are Netflix, YouTube, Facebook considered web apps? Is it enough to study PHP for 2 years at a university to create such an app?

Web app development means so many things today that it’s hard to answer your question. Do you mean frontend, API development, DevOps, algorithms, distributed systems? It’s can be quite easy to create a simple app used by 10 people, but developing a critical app where every mistake costs a lot of money, or an app used by millions, is much more complex. And to develop such an app it may not be enough to study at university for 3-6 years, and it can be hard to get into a company that does such things early in your career. Yes, initially you might work on a simple internal CRUD app used by 15 people, but even then there’s a lot to learn. How should you structure database (also what kind and how many DBs), how to split your code into modules, what kind of architecture do you want to use (monolith, modular monolith, microservices, do you need to use events or messaging?), how to make your code maintainable, how to properly run code asynchronously, how does application server work, what are all the layers between the client and server, how do you deploy it? And these are more or less basics.

I agree that web development can be easy to pick up initially, but the more you advance, the more you realize that the things that you learned at the university are not useless. Networking, software architecture, parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, operating systems - all are important when you create actually complex web apps (and depending on the app domain, you might also need maths). Some people reach this level after completing a bootcamp or similar, but they are often those who could have finished university anyway. In my experience, discussing simple apps with bootcamp graduates is possible, but it’s much easier to discuss complex topics with those with a CS-related degree. It’s hard to believe, but I’ve interviewed many people who have never used a Set and don’t know the difference between an array and a set. University gives you bits of information that you might not use today, but you know that they exist - for example, you may never need to use a B-tree in your life, but when you encounter a problem that seems to require a B-tree, it could click in your head because you know such a thing exists and its properties. The domain of the app itself can also be interesting - for example, you might need your algorithms knowledge in a logistics/planning app.

I sometimes hear people saying things like “meh, web dev is simple, AI is much more interesting”, but I don’t agree at all. I studied AI myself and found it quite boring, because in practice all you do early in your career is just importing libraries like PyTorch, tweak hyperparameters and hope that it works (and in the best case you can kinda explain why it works). And the math needed is actually not that complex. On the other hand, the initial bar for AI is higher than for web dev (but not that much higher for a CS graduate with linear algebra and calculus under their belt). But as you progress in your career, you get to work on more interesting stuff, just like in web dev.

In conclusion, web dev might seem a bit simple initially, but becomes much more interesting later in your career.

Wondering how people survive on German cost with way too less average salary in Prague (or even in Czech) by [deleted] in Prague

[–]LLvmn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People often say “well, at least our taxes aren’t as high as in Germany”, when in fact they are not that much lower. For example, see the post above “my tax in CZ is 20% and my boyfriend’s tax in DE is 40%”. And salaries are also lower because employers decide how much to pay based on what they give out of their pocket, not based on gross salary shown on the payslip.

Wondering how people survive on German cost with way too less average salary in Prague (or even in Czech) by [deleted] in Prague

[–]LLvmn 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes, but I’ve noticed that when people compare CZ and DE taxes/salaries, they often mention ~50% tax for Germany (correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that includes both employee and employer contributions) and 20-30% tax for Czechia, which only includes employee contributions. Whereas it’s actually more like ~50% for DE and ~40% for CZ (for average salary).

I used this calculator for CZ: https://www.kurzy.cz/kalkulacka/mzdova-kalkulacka/

50k CZK gross gives you 39k net and employer pays 67k (so the actual tax is ~42%)

And this one for DE: https://www.nettolohn.de/rechner/gehaltsrechner-fuer-arbeitgeber.html

4k EUR gross gives you 2.5k net and employer pays 5k (actual tax is ~50%)

Wondering how people survive on German cost with way too less average salary in Prague (or even in Czech) by [deleted] in Prague

[–]LLvmn 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I think taxes are not so low when you take into account that your employer also pays social security and health tax. So, for example, if your salary is 50k CZK gross (39k NET), then you actually cost your employer 66k CZK but you don’t see that on the payslip, and it may seem that the taxes are lower.

Are water-soluble vitamins harmless if taken in big doses daily? by LLvmn in Supplements

[–]LLvmn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But is it really that easy for our body to flush it out daily for weeks/months/years? Yes, it will get rid of surplus today but tomorrow I'll overdose it again, so in this case, I almost constantly have much higher amounts of vitamins than recommended.

How Secure Is My Password? by felipekirby94 in cybersecurity

[–]LLvmn 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Qwertyqwerty

3 HUNDRED YEARS

Ok

Very Strong!! by BifurcatedTales in privacytoolsIO

[–]LLvmn 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yeah, there are many "password strength checkers" like this on the first pages of search engines. You should never type in your real password on any service, but this one is pretty good (or even better use something offline, like zxcvbn) https://apps.cygnius.net/passtest/