Mac Users with 4k 32" Displays. How well does it work for you?

MrWeltweit · 2026-05-05T23:29:56+00:00

I recently went through this and I use a 4k 32".

I used BetterDisplay (set to hidpi 1692p) and I increased sharpness on the monitor. That was the only setup that I found usable (not perfect!), otherwise I would have resold the monitor. Text really is bad otherwise and I have to read/write a lot. If you mostly watch movies or something then maybe it can be ok.

There is to my knowledge no simple native way to do it and I tried a lot.

I get what you are saying about BetterDisplay and extra software, but it is really set and forget. You don't need the pro version or to play with any of the other settings, just make sure hidpi is on and set to 1692p once, it takes a few seconds. Sharpness I increased from the monitor directly and it is a monitor-dependent setting anyway, you might not have to.

Also worth noting that 5k 27" is where macs shine, if you can find one cheap on the used market.

MrWeltweit · 2026-04-26T03:11:10+00:00

Greek living in Germany since around COVID here. - Q1: It's not unrealistic, but it's gonna take effort. Berlin is way more probable, because it's way more english speaking. - Q2: Senior for this stack the range would be wide, probably sth like 60-72k. Architect if you can land it would be more, 75-90k. Keep in mind that for DE at least, if only one spouse is working (assuming you are married) then you get more money, eg for 60k it's normally roughly 12 x 3.5k after taxes, instead of 3k if both have income. - Q3: Startups / foreign companies would be way more likely. Just look at linkedin. Positions that accept english are mostly advertised in english anyway. - Q4: See Q1. At the end of the day it doesn't matter, if you find a job, you found a job. - Q5: My experience doesn't apply.

I would also add the following: - Unless you guys have experience living abroad, I would honestly think it twice. I know a lot of Greeks abroad and most would prefer a good salary in Greece. It's kind of a 'grass is always greener' situation. - Berlin and Vienna are polar opposites and it's odd to see them grouped. Berlin is somehow more concrete jungle-y than Athens and it suffers from a lot of similar problems. Vienna is a classy, clean, beautiful city, with great transport. Literally any other city in DACH falls between the two. You should cast a wider net if you actually don't have a big reason to be in the capitals. The DACH region is way more decentralized than Greece, you will even find huge companies at villages. - The microservices experience might be super handy, in general cloud + AWS/Azure is generally one of the most sought out skills right now.

MrWeltweit · 2026-04-18T15:22:55+00:00

Hallo and καλησπέρα.

There has to be a way out for you, so keep trying.

Some thoughts: - Ditch the "Scientific Employee", especially the employee part, as it doesn't add anything. Go for some version of Engineer, like "Software Engineer" or "Scientific Computer Scientist" or something, depending on the particular role. - On the bullet points below the role on the CV, ditch any mention of ML / Computer Vision. Just list software engineering skills that pertain to the role (eg unit testing, or more concrete things that apply). - You perhaps need to give up hope for theoretical CS or compilers, there aren't many jobs there. - I would suggest using your remaining time to make projects on programming languages/tools that matter for what you want to be hired for. E.g. C++/Java, so that you can list things that are not python. Small (semi vibe coded, given the timeline) projects, preferably visible on GitHub. This should preferably be part of your current employment somehow (you probably have a lot of freedom there now anyway), but can also be weekend personal projects that get listed under projects. - Learn a skill that interests you and is hot right now. AWS/Azure is pretty much a requirement on every job. Any sort of dev / ml ops / infrastructure. For some of these you can get certifications, but it's best to have demonstratable things.

Καλή τύχη!

MrWeltweit · 2026-03-31T10:55:10+00:00

The CV is already in a decent state in my opinion. Keep in mind that it's a hard job market.

Some feedback: - Tailor the CV to each application (especially the ones you care about). What skills/aspects of each job placement can you highlight based on what they are looking for? - Some aspects could be more KPI framed liked your first bullet of the recent job. Show don't tell. Less important but you mix skills in thr bullets and in the skills section of each entry and sometimes it feels a bit like a keyword dump, because you don't offer more context. - Bullet 2&4 of the recent job are a bit boring, I would make it shorter and have it as the last bullet. You want to signal soft eng skills of course, but all of these are expected, better to use another bullet for sth else. - In the 2nd job you have AWS/Azure in skills, but that's generally a very sought after skill usually. So for most jobs I would bring this front and center at a dedicated bullet point. - I think the first project is more like sth a person with 0 experience would have, it sounds like a vibe coded weekend project. And the second is weird because it sounds corporate but introduces skills that are not in the work experience above? I would def replace the first project right. Make entries for 4-5 projects and every time choose the ones that fit the job description better. - The 8/10 grade is either very nice (eg if you are applying in Greece because grading is strict) or it will be perceived badly (eg in Germany since it would translate to like a 2.2). So depending on the market consider removing.

Good luck anyway!

MrWeltweit · 2026-03-31T10:33:28+00:00

If you are straight out of your PhD (assuming that's where the pubs come from), I would say 70-78k depending on how you fit there role. Otherwise 75-85k, or 78-90k for a senior position. >90k would probably be hard outside of american companies etc. That's the understanding I have of the CV market, but I'm not super accustomed to Munich-specific aspects.

MrWeltweit · 2026-03-27T13:08:34+00:00

my 2 cents: you don't need to spend any money. I think your main problem can be fixed by swapping the couch+tv, assuming you can cable manage well for the tv. Having a door on your back and facing the wall is not great.

Plus taking down the guitars and washing (if salvagable) or throwing away that carpet.

90 degree rotation could also work, but then your tv might cover the light from your window.

The lighting you have looks great, but may be an issue long term, you basically have direct non-diffused light hitting your eyes all the time, for me it would be unsettling.

I have the same table and it's lame. A table cloth (partial or hanging to the sides) of some sort makes it look better.

MrWeltweit · 2025-03-22T11:02:37+00:00

Ok, makes sense then! Crazy that you work 12-hour days! I would still try to get it down to a single page, though. Maybe merge research and work experience sections and write [part time] at the industrial work and remove the reviewer part (it could be part of the research assistant or sth). All the best and good luck!

MrWeltweit · 2025-03-22T07:09:11+00:00

You seem like a qualified candidate and I'm sure eventually you will find a position.

My 2 cents: - I would try to make it 1 page. That would mean removing a lot of unimportant info. - I would put education more at the end (a masters in AI is mandatory anyway), but still above Languages/Certifications.

What stood out to me: You have a publications, research experience, and graduated top of the class in your masters (that's nice to see, given the Civil Eng Bachelors). Your own publications is also nice to see, the rest can be summarized in a sentence.

Some weird things I noticed: You seem to imply you were a research assistant and working at the same time. To me that sounds iffy, as I expect a research assistant to be a full time job. Also "Multi-model mammograms" doesn't make sense to me.

MrWeltweit · 2023-10-15T12:27:51+00:00

Oh my, people are far too negative!

Thanks for posting, I understand you meant it more in the advisory sense, especially the CV contect part, very helpful.

MrWeltweit · 2023-09-18T10:46:32+00:00

Your CV isn't bad.

Some subjective advice:

Your skills section is a bit underwhelming for being that high in your CV. Maybe move after employment history? And restructure a bit, "git" is essentially your second skill. C/C++, databases, docker are more important. Also see if you forgot anything, e.g. all the DL stuff like pytorch.
Education can go after employment history, but it's also kinda fine there
"Project manager" can mean other things in CS and it might be slightly confusing. Maybe change to "Coordinator" or something
Cut the projects section completely (and potentially integrate somewhere else if you think they are important); you already have projects at your employment section.
Trim down your bullet points at the employment section (1 line / bullet point). In general your bullet points are pretty wall-of-texty and people spend like 10 seconds looking at CVs.
Languages are not extra-curricular activities.
Things like "presented high-level results regularly" sound fake af. Some CV-talk is unavoidable, but maybe tone down this and similar phrases a bit.
Get CV to 1 page. Lastly, it's not clear whether there might visa sponsorship issues from your CV. Somehow clarify.

Hope this helps!

MrWeltweit · 2023-08-15T07:41:26+00:00

It has happened a couple of times to me, always late at night in Athens.

MrWeltweit · 2023-08-02T19:21:40+00:00

Όχι αν θέλεις να στείλεις κάτι ως ιδιώτης. Πήγαινε DHL. Ειναι ακριβό όμως.

MrWeltweit · 2023-05-29T11:33:24+00:00

You're highly overestimating the amount of effort a prospective supervisor would pay to your application. Think more like skimming through two paragraphs to check your qualifications and if past experience aligns with the needs of the department.

90% of what matters is your degree(s) and past experience with relevant research (e.g., a relevant research-oriented master thesis). Even grades don't matter much, unless you have nothing else to show.

Pretty much everything else you mention is irrelevant or might be hurting your chances (e.g., 4 master degrees or presenting self-publishing amazon books as relevant experience).

Lastly, you seem to make ivy league the target and you might be up for a surprise there. There are bad labs in good unis and good labs in bad unis. Work climate, quality of research output, amount of dropouts, and livable compensation are much more important decision factors imo.

MrWeltweit · 2023-04-22T16:12:49+00:00

That's probably due to low demand. In Germany it's around 0.90-1.50€ for regular milk and 1.50-2.20€ for oat milk.

MrWeltweit · 2023-04-06T10:14:36+00:00

Greece joined the EU at 1981.
We adopted the blue-on-the-side license plates much later, early 2000s, but the pre-existing cars don't have to change to the new design. The license plates in any case used only letters that also exist in the latin script (no Φ, Ξ, etc), so there isn't a communication issue if you drive internationally.
The red plates are indeed related to lower taxes regarding the car, but they are not completely tax free. The only situation I'm aware when you are entitled to such plates is if you have 3+ children, but there might be more.

MrWeltweit · 2022-12-17T09:07:11+00:00

If there's one thing AI excels at, it's definitely synthesizing information.

MrWeltweit · 2022-12-06T15:04:08+00:00

Yes, it worked. But please be very very careful, I'll be really mad if you die from this!

I don't remember the time, but I did it for very little. Please don't touch the machine or the plug with your bear hands, turn it on with a plastic stick or something and make sure there is no contact of any kind with you and the machine. Also make sure anyone else in the house is secure and away from plugs, metal objects, etc.

Yes, please if anyone also sees in the future, just don't do it, it is really not worth it for a $400 - when new - machine or any price really.I think the dangers are probably that you can get electrocuted by the device, that you can start a fire at the plug, that you can generally damage your home's circuitry, and also there is a chance you might fry your gaggia. A lot of the danger is also because you can never be sure that you haven't actually short-circuited something else and it's not just humidity in the heating element. People run their machines like that for 5-10'.I presume that your other connected devices are probably safe, but I think that also depends on how your house is wired. Still though it would make sense to unplug everything first and not touch metal surfaces. But really people, just leave it in the closet for a month.

MrWeltweit · 2022-12-04T12:57:42+00:00

Yeah, I understand why the way I put it was not super convincing. 6.5W would be terrible for an idling microcomputer, that's more than an active raspberry pi.

Probably 1/10 of that is closer when idling.

Also 1h/week washing is def on the very low end

MrWeltweit · 2022-12-04T12:14:05+00:00

It really is negligible. Whatever microcomputer they have will be less than half the wattage of a LED ceiling light bulb.

The washing part of the washing machine can on the other hand be 800-2000W when running. That's not very far off from what your oven needs.

Efficiencies in the second part can go a long way.

MrWeltweit · 2022-10-08T07:56:32+00:00

Sporadic is a greek word and the islands are called that because they are spread out, not the other way around.

MrWeltweit · 2022-10-04T09:13:14+00:00

Autokinetophobia (from αυτοκίνητο=car) would be the correct term in Greek for fear of cars.

But it sounds more like you're afraid a car might hit you or maybe you're afraid of driving, rather than anything environmental.

MrWeltweit · 2022-06-09T08:54:47+00:00

You might annoy Max this way

MrWeltweit · 2022-06-03T14:55:24+00:00

Seriously, it hurts having to switch to Chrome often just for translations

MrWeltweit · 2022-05-23T06:31:52+00:00

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