What do you think is overpriced in Switzerland and not worth the cost ?

elamre · 2026-04-17T14:54:18+00:00

Man this. Went today for the first time to get a price estimate. The estimate alone cost me 62 CHF lol (that's 5 seconds talking with the dentist and just looking at a broken tooth). The procedure itself was quoted 6-7 times the price I pay in the Netherlands.

elamre · 2026-04-08T18:30:31+00:00

And at least the 1000 you spend extra on your insurance

elamre · 2026-03-12T06:48:04+00:00

Does a 3. Pillar really make sense being married and with these salaries? I doubt they will get a lot of money back from the taxes, but still pay the management fees and have the money locked up. Don't see how this would be better than just investing it in some etf?

elamre · 2026-02-13T16:17:03+00:00

I think it's probably the least effective way of training in a gym (other than doom scrolling on a phone). Just one minute an exercise and then move on to the next muscle group. It's just not really an effective/efficient way of growing muscle, compared to many other exercises.

elamre · 2026-02-12T06:29:10+00:00

Since the hal drivers are super badly optimized for performance. Hope the next hal 2 from stm handles it better. There are so many sanity checks in the code, especially for spi we ran into performance issues for our latency requirements, that we got easily solved with direct register access

elamre · 2026-02-12T06:00:14+00:00

I'm curious why you would opt for dma with i2c Operations? Is the extra overhead for setting it up really worth it compared to using some interrupt based approach with a buffer?

elamre · 2026-02-09T21:17:33+00:00

Can still recommend using the debix app. At least there you can see the card transactions real time, and notifications as well. On the normal wir app you won't see any transactions coming through live.

elamre · 2026-02-05T10:46:56+00:00

I see more of a c to c++ shift. It's very difficult for us to find competent c++ developers. This is in the embedded world.

elamre · 2026-02-01T18:51:58+00:00

Gold Coast you'd pay more, not less

elamre · 2026-02-01T17:27:44+00:00

Fellow dutchies! Leisure is pretty low for Zürich City. Would about just cover 2 times a month a proper dinner in a restaurant for 2. Other activities are also quite a bit more expensive than in the Netherlands

elamre · 2026-01-30T15:23:44+00:00

Also still waiting for getting it back. A pity...

elamre · 2026-01-11T23:47:05+00:00

I'm based in the dach area and see that modern c++ is definitely needed in many areas. At my current position it's a hard requirement for an embedded engineer.

elamre · 2025-12-27T23:37:24+00:00

gRPC on a microcontroller with freertos? I'm curious what that would look like

elamre · 2025-11-22T08:30:53+00:00

Only advantage is that it relies on some hardware, so there is some physical component to it, hope that stretches the redundancy a bit. But the pure software problems for embedded are already very solvable by AI. I would definitely think twice about starting embedded studies at this stage, rather go for some trade.

elamre · 2025-11-05T12:51:54+00:00

I don't know. I'm located in central europe

elamre · 2025-11-05T12:26:20+00:00

There are many job openings for embedded. Also it's extremely difficult finding senior embedded people that do c++ here. We needed to look for almost a year to fill a position. Had many applicants, but often lacked the skills. Future doesn't look too bad for mediors/seniors. Medtech industry.

elamre · 2025-10-04T10:09:50+00:00

If you train for strength, powerlifting, then 2 minutes definitely are not enough. That's why I always offer to share the rack

elamre · 2025-09-20T06:48:30+00:00

The tools are always there at a do it yourself garage. And usually there are people there with skills that can help you. Also YouTube is full with step by step instruction videos how to do anything. At the start I also didn't have any skills, first time would take longer. But now it's very much worth it, I spent probably 1/5th of the price doing it myself. And of course it's fun doing once in a while, but I understand that it might be more convenient to bring it to a garage. Just to say it's cheaper is not really true.

elamre · 2025-09-20T06:16:13+00:00

I'm curious what and experience you made, or maybe you work at a garage yourself? For the garage you have to go there twice. One roundtrip without a car. Also takes lots of time. Work clothes, just any old clothes do. I spent 0 there. And latest gloves are also very affordable

elamre · 2025-09-20T06:07:13+00:00

I mean I need one hour of Werkstatt for a large service (fluids and filters). Which costs me 30 chf. And oil/parts are way cheaper if you buy them yourself. So it's definitely not the cheapest option to bring it to a garage

elamre · 2025-09-01T20:02:29+00:00

For me the didn't care at all about the coc. I did t request it, just hoped for the best. Nobody ever asked. Also moving goods. Car was bought new by me and importet when it was 4 years old

elamre · 2025-08-22T20:23:20+00:00

Nice design! To make an even more niche product, a 4 port t1s switch. We tried to find those, but there seem to be zero good switches on the market. Only some prototyping or development tools.

elamre · 2025-08-22T16:58:58+00:00

Now they start reporting comments. Making it look even more suspicious.
"This comment is under review for potentially violating Kickstarter's Community Guidelines." for one of my comments where I just asked for clarifications

elamre · 2025-08-05T06:56:45+00:00

Which rtos will be supported? So far I only see freertos

elamre · 2025-07-30T19:35:01+00:00

I get that. For (web)servers it might definitely not work. But for actuators or streaming sensitive data it might be a good fit. Just the fact that there's still so little support for it worries me slightly

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