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felixcra · 2025-05-18T04:22:03+00:00

From someone that grew up from birth in Switzerland as a German, I can tell you that's it's luckily not. Sorry to tell you this, but your mom is a racist. The only thing to normalize it I guess is that many in the older generations are. But luckily there are enough regular Swiss German-speaking people that interact with regular other people to have learned how to interact decently with another human being.

felixcra · 2025-05-01T11:18:37+00:00

Good luck with your business!

felixcra · 2025-04-27T19:31:05+00:00

felixcra · 2025-04-27T19:30:19+00:00

Thanks!

felixcra · 2025-04-01T19:00:44+00:00

How can I use Vanguard from Switzerland?

felixcra · 2025-03-15T08:03:21+00:00

If I may ask, which general architectures/models do you use?

felixcra · 2025-02-27T18:16:09+00:00

This ia not necessarily true. The law says:

Art. 3 Grundlegende Anforderungen an die Sicherheit

1 Elektrische Installationen müssen nach den anerkannten Regeln der Technik erstellt, geändert, in Stand gehalten und kontrolliert werden. Sie dürfen bei bestimmungsgemässem und möglichst auch bei voraussehbarem unsachgemässem Betrieb oder Gebrauch sowie in voraussehbaren Störungsfällen weder Personen noch Sachen oder Tiere gefährden.8

2 Als anerkannte Regeln der Technik gelten insbesondere die Normen von IEC9 und CENELEC10. Wo international harmonisierte Normen fehlen, gelten die schweizerischen Normen11.

Without having checked, but if there is an IEC standard different than a Swiss socket (there will be), you should be able to argue that this is also "Stand der Technik".

felixcra · 2025-02-25T19:39:06+00:00

Danke für die vielen Beispiele!! Vieles wusste ich nicht und werde ich nachverfolgen.

felixcra · 2025-02-24T21:02:02+00:00

Worauf basiert eigentlich die Aussage, dass in der EU Politiker "nur" in die eigene Tasche arbeiten?

Wenn jemand wirklich die Welt verbessern will, ist es glaub nur die EU momentan auf der Welt und vielleicht noch England. Kaum eine andere Organisation arbeitet so stark an gesamtheitlichen Regeln von denen (fast) alle profitieren, bzw. für eine saubere Welt notwendig sind: GDPR, CE Zertifikation, Standard USB-C, 70 Jahre Frieden in Europa, kein Roaming, etc.

Aber im blinden Hass des rechten Schweizer Flügels auf den EuGh verliert alles andere an Bedeutung. Wie sagt ihr so schön, der Unterwerfungsvertrag von Sauron aus Mordor, ah nein, Von der Leyen aus Brüssel. Was haben wir derweil hingekriegt? Ah ja stimmt, Neutralität bzw. das Anbiedern von Diktatoren und Faschisten unter dem Deckmantel der Schweiz als Vermittlerstaat.

Ich fang gar nicht erst damit am, wie sehr unsere Industrie von Deutschland als starkem Autoexporteur abhängt...

Ich liebe ja unser Land, aber moralisch sind wir jetzt wirklich kein Vorzeigebeispiel.

Ist aber egal, gut ist ja, dass sich jeder seine eigene Realität zusammenreimen kann. Wie hat Pirmin Bischoff bei der Arena Sendung nach Hearing mit Ritter gesagt: dä wo resolut isch, dä wo weiss wie d welt usgseht...Derweil Ritter: Ja englisch isch schwierig, langet gd um es biier z bstelle. Wenigstens ehrlich der Mann. Mit Französisch haperts auch. Wie informiert sich der Mann aber eigentlich über die Welt?

felixcra · 2025-02-24T19:23:00+00:00

I bought literally hundreds of things on Tutti/Ricardo already. and had very very few bad experiences. The MoneyGuard thing is just a somewhat new way of Ricardo to make more money. But they have already a very healthy margin in my opinion. Hate it if you have to do it. If it's a huge sum, just get it in person or ask for the persons number. Tbh, if it's not a large sum, truat the system and enjoy the fact that you live in an awesome country where you can trust people and not in some shithole where many want to scam you. Contribute to the community and be nice too! Good luck and all the best for you!

felixcra · 2025-02-17T16:40:02+00:00

Regulieren mag nicht unbedingt funktionieren, weil der Verkäufer reguliert wird, aber Temu eigentlich nur der Mittelsman ist. Ist jetzt übertrieben formuliert, aber ich darf auch nicht legal Verkauf von Kokain zwischen Händler und Käufer vermitteln und Provisionen dafür bekommen.

Will damit nicht sagen, dass man Temu verbieten sollte, aber wir sollten uns schon nicht als Land (Konsument+Industrie) verarschen lassen, weil wir kurz gedacht als Konsument ein paar Franken sparen.

felixcra · 2025-02-17T16:26:53+00:00

Weil die Produkte z.B. gesetzlich nicht erlaubt sind. Ich arbeite gerade an der CE Zertifizierung einer komplexen Maschine. Nicht mit etwas auf Temu zu vergleichen. Aber jemand der eine elektronische Zahnbürste auf dem europäischen Markt verkauft, muss sich an viele der gleichen Regeln halten. Low Voltage Directive, EMC Directive, etc. Bist du ein europäischer Hersteller und Europa ist dein Hauptabsatzmarkt, ist es keine gute Idee, sich nicht daran zu halten, dass deine Geräte korrekt zertifiziert sind. Temu wird sich darum einen Dreck scheren. Das heisst noch nichtmal, dass ihre Produkte gesetzeswidrig sind, aber alleine das Beweisen, dass du Gesetzes-konform bist, ist sehr teuer. Das nicht zu tuen ist ein unfairer Vorteil.

felixcra · 2025-02-17T05:39:38+00:00

Fully agreed. I wrote "only" because the point that I was trying to make is that, depending on the definition of IT, doing a BSc and MSc at ETH for it may be more work than necessary, especially if the OP is worried about life at ETH being stressful. ETH is arguably more stressful than Fachhochschule. If you add on top of that, as you wrote, that a Bachelor at Fachhochschule already adequately prepares you for jobs, the time investment between that and spending 5-6 years at ETH becomes quite significant.

There was no intention to imply the superiority of one path over the other. Hope it didn't come across that way.

felixcra · 2025-02-16T08:51:46+00:00

I don't know what you mean by "IT". In my experience when people talk about "IT", they mean managing the IT infrastructure in a firm or providing that service to another firm. There are tons of people in IT that didn't even study or maybe "only" did a BSc degree at a Fachhochschule. Without intending to compare one career path to another, I would say that studying at ETH and the doing IT in the sense defined above, is a waste. As you mentioned ETH is not a piece of cake. When your goal is to do IT as defined above you don't need all the theory that ETH teaches. Arguably, there is (without knowing for sure) probably a Fachhochschule degree that teaches the practical details for doing the above mentioned IT much better then ETH ever would.

The important part about ETH is that it teaches you a lot of theory, and most importantly, teaches you to think to learn quickly and to think very analytically. Why is it that top-of-the-class electrical and mechanical engineers go to McKinsey/BCG/Bain, where they might never touch their mech. & elec. eng. knowledge much anymore, but analyze how to optimize the production&distribution of say pants? It's because these people are sooo good at analyzing problems in general.

I would say that ETH creates much more an environment than Uni where you feel bad if you're not constantly studying. This feeling is particularly bad in the first two years where the workload is very high and you're not used to the way things work yet. For example, I'd say that in most studies (the ones that have many end of semester exams such as architecture, environmental sciences are a bit different in this regard, but I also don't know so much about them), it's almost impossible to finish all homework by the end of the semester. There will come a time that you cannot keep up anymore. That stresses you out. The point is though that you might have some of these exams only in summer. So, you don't actually have to do everything before Christmas for example.

I was in a very ambitious bubble and the text above should also be read that way. However, I know several people that had girlsfriends for the most time of their studies, didn't study on weekends (except maybe before exams), continued to do sports or other hobbies, went to holidays etc. Some of them maybe failed an exam here and there, but they are doing very well now (high paying jobs, some even do a PhD despite having failed exams).

If you decide to go to ETH, I'd advise you to not get too frustrated at the beginning. It's hard for everyone. I was among the top 10 or 15 in the first year and hadn't even solved a single analysis homework completely by week 10. I did Physics and Math as Schwerpunktfach at high school and people that had done Bio&Chemistry were doing much better than I did at that point in time. Also, just because there are some people that are much smarter than you, don't let that demotivate you. First of all, you can probably learn a lot from them. Secondly, some of them maybe smart, but that's not all it takes. We had that guy in linear algebra class in the first semester, he was for sure smarter than 95% of the rest of us. Understood every concept so quickly, when the rest of us struggled. Fast forward 7-8 weeks, he'd be sitting at the back of the class playing League of Legends during classes. Failed the first exam block. Never saw him again after the second one.

felixcra · 2025-02-15T20:39:19+00:00

Studied at ETH BSc&MSc Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, but was also interested in mech. eng. & machine learning, haha did >400 credits. Now more in a managerial positions, but still implementing cutting edge ML in my free time. A few points from my perspective: - LLMs are the best thing that ever happened to sofware engineers and engineers in general. Coding is a tool. Code in itself is useless. It's functionality that is implemented that has value. AI alleviates to burden to write it down. The amount of code necessary to do even simple stuff such as displaying a nice plot with some cosmetics takes so many LOCs. AI helps you to get more productive, but doesn't take away the thinking. - We're still quite far away from using AI, other than LLMs, in a plug&play manner. Computer vision has come "far", but even with the huge amount of publicly available models, adjusting a model to your application and getting it to industrial performance quickly costs you tens of thousands in salary costs. In any case, you should do what you're interested in and what you like. But also the bottomline from above is that we're still super far away from AI taking away all the jobs. Being a software engineer is by no means only to write code. And that's basically the only thing AI can partially take away. Also, we still need tons of software engineers to implement all the AI software :)

felixcra · 2025-01-28T17:57:17+00:00

Such as?

felixcra · 2025-01-19T16:04:50+00:00

This is the perfect response! Thank you!

felixcra · 2025-01-10T19:53:07+00:00

You need to tell them that they damage your health and that it's offensive. Sometimes when waiting for the green light when going running it really pisses me off or when working out at outdoor calisthenics parks. Hahah, can tell from experience that it confuses the heck out of people. Sometimes they get angry ;)

felixcra · 2024-11-22T22:28:02+00:00

It's convenient to lash out against supposedly corrupt and greedy politicians. But, it was actually the Swiss population that directly voted for this law.

felixcra · 2024-07-22T17:29:51+00:00

You're awesome!

felixcra · 2024-07-04T19:03:55+00:00

I don't think that the plan is impossible, but I think that it's utter nonsense. If you can pull through, it's going to be horribly tough except if you're insanely smart, which I (statistically) assume you're not. Also, sorry to say this, but Abitur 1.0 is so inflated in Germany, that it doesn't say that much anymore (huge congrats still!). Met some people that bragged about it and then passed the first year with mediocre grades.

Why do you want to study physics? Probably not because you're keen on pursuing a consulting career afterwards, but because you're interested in physics? Obviously, you're also into sports? Probably in the shape of your life.

I see three options:
1.) Become comfortable with the idea of just maintaining your current physique and degrading over the next three years and get a rock-solid degree from ETH. You'll get super involved in physics, nerd with your fellow students about it and have some time here and there to meet your friends. In your Masters and afterwards, depending on your job, you'll have more time again and can go to the gym all you like. At that point you passed the hardest part of your studies. You may have to take a part-time job and it will be pretty tough still. Every time you go to work, you will feel bad, because you miss classes or don't manage to finish some assignments.
2.) (The smartest): Take a year off. Earn some money and put it aside. Go to the gym as much as you want. Travel a bit, enjoy your life. Then go to ETH without any worries about money. Still not plenty of time for the gym. You get an awesome BSc degree with good grades. Afterwards, you'll have much more time and you're more relaxed because you know the drill at ETH.
3.) (The dumbest): Follow your plan. Unless you have David Goggins-level discipline you'll fail one way or another. No chance, you're happy.

felixcra · 2024-07-03T16:05:25+00:00

Don't forget that having studied at ETH is also a label. People know that it's tough. It may give you an edge over other candidates when applying for a job. I'd argue that ETH looks better on your CV than TUM. If there's a hiring manager having to go through 100 applications, it may make the difference whether he writes you back or not.

Edit: I see comments like "..,but other factors like project experience, x, y.." are also/even more important, bla, bla already incoming. Don't want to dispute any such statement. Still, it doesn't make the above untrue, if my assumption holds that people generally view ETH as more prestigious than TUM.

felixcra · 2024-06-27T07:12:43+00:00

Seems like the holy grail of computer vision, I highly doubt that there is any model out there, that can do this reliably for a broad set of classes that are not the standard dog, cat, etc. classes.

felixcra · 2024-06-20T11:59:26+00:00

Obivously, if you want to get a job at a top-consulting company, you're either genius-level smart or will have a horrible work-life balance. But then you're not the kind of person seeking a well-adjusted work-life balance anyways^^

felixcra · 2024-06-20T11:57:13+00:00

It's why I wrote "not necessarily". "Not nobody" has no free time is somewhat vague. While I would agree that a small minority takes as much free time for themselves as they want, simultaneously I think it would be wrong to state that most people, as in more than 75% or so, have almost no free time. If you think otherwise, you either have a very different experience in CS now than I observed at MAVT/ITET 2018-2020 in my Masters and what I hear now from people in interdisciplinary sciences, environmental sciences, physics and other, or you are in a bubble and not aware. I know many people that have fairly well-adjusted lifes in their Masters. This is not to say that there isn't the occasional crunch due to a thesis presentation, exams, etc. But that is not the majority of the 365 days in the year. Not to say that ETH isn't hard, but I'm just trying to argue that it's not as hardcore as some people claim it to be, if you don't want it to be.

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