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@nic_amadio And suddenly Zürich feels pretty cheap. The main issue at the moment being the market for junior positions but I'm not sure it's better elsewhere.

@nic_amadio You shouldn't try to maximize earnings when picking an internship, and Zürich has a nice concentration of tech companies and startups. Arguably London is better but CoL isn't much different. And once you get an entry-level job taxes, are going to be your biggest expense.

Wrong. 3k is apparently what well-funded robotics startups pay interns in Zurich 🇨🇭. They even flex it on LinkedIn thinking it's a lot of money:

@WickedMcCat Millennials who pirated shit during the DVD or early HDTV era know. 😅

Totally unrelated, but it's a safe bet most of y'all have no bloody foggiest idea what 'p' means in 720p and assume it's 'pixels'.

@juliencdt Après quand tes copains chez SK Hynix vont devenir millionaires de manière quasi certaine, la demande est compréhensible.

@juliencdt ... mais ça permettait aussi de lisser les moins bonnes années, genre les Note 7 explosifs (j'y étais plus, mais mes potes ont eu le bonus max quand même). Et les semi-conducteurs, c'est très cyclique. Les profits peuvent retomber violemment en même pas deux ans.

Sujet passionnant pour qui s'intéresse de près à la tech (hardware pour le coup) : les grèves chez Samsung et leur impact sur toute la chaîne de l'IA, dans un pays pas vraiment habitué au phénomène. La principale revendication est le déplafonnement des primes et on est déjà dans une dimension que l'European Mind a du mal à comprendre : on joue pas sur 2 € de ticket resto, mais sur des montants en centaines de milliers de dollars par employé. En gros, ils voudraient que la performance réelle de Samsung se reflète sur leurs variables, qu'importe que les sommes soient déjà astronomiques.

@1018underground La folie quand un Syrien s'est installé dans mon village et facturait la coupe à la tondeuse 18.- pour lancer son business. 🤣

LES MÉCHANTS BARBER KURDOALBANAIS SONT COMPLICES DU COMMUNISME EN OFFRANT DES PRESTATIONS QUI NE DÉPASSENT PAS LES 50 FRANCS SUISSES!!!! Les méchants musulmans eux vont à la mosquée le vendredi et c’est inadmissible ils portent allégeance à Mahomet + qu’à Guillaume TELL!!!!!!!!

@devabram I counter with the Scala stairs and the Eye of Odersky

@rebeginme @vaxryy Which is much more straight-forward than the US indeed, or even immigration friendly countries such as Canada or Australia. That said, the strength of your passport makes almost zero difference for a work permit. Criteria are the same whether you're from Japan, USA or Afghanistan

@rebeginme @vaxryy Several European countries are on the easier side all things considered. Basically a relevant degree, a few years of experience and a job offer over a certain amount (for instance €50,700 in Germany, which is entry-level in most skilled professions) are enough to qualify.

what puzzles me here is if your situation is that bad, you're getting 3h of sleep a night, you're overworked, working till death basically... does the thought of saving up a bit of money to emigrate not cross your mind at all? The Japanese passport is extremely powerful - emigrating to Europe or the US shouldn't be that hard, right? You save for a single one-way plane ticket, three or four months of rent, and you should be good. Changing jobs is not seen as a negative in the west, so there is no problem with that. I fail to understand here.

@luciascarlet @HSVSphere Afaik a big motivation behind Pkl was Kubernetes templating. The backend people I know there write Go or Java and deploy on linux indeed. Swift server side usage is still very niche but targeting linux as well.

@HSVSphere they are known to use FoundationDB whose only supported production (not local development) platform is Linux and they have had job listings relating to Linux infra/sysadmin so yeah they just use Linux

Does Apple run MacOS on their servers

@naszkry @rayanalderson La gare tabasse cela dit (si tu t'y perds pas du moins).

@samlakig My current work project would benefit from a unified approach between cold, hot and in-memory dataframes, and I'm very tempted to use ClickHouse and chDB everywhere but I still need to see whether that's a good idea for ML workloads on SageMaker. I assume DuckDB could work too.

trying to larp as a dataeng, and need your help. do you like:

@scheminglunatic Not the same things but some people end up using them in a similar fashion, depending on how you implement the persistence layer, for instance with Parquet on S3. There's also ClickHouse's chDB and Apache DataFusion.

DuckDB doesn't even fight with Polars though, no? They're two separate things?

@thissisalain - What's the biggest advantage of living in Switzerland? - Well, the flag is a big plus.

was isch euches Lieblings schwizer meme?

@Mat_IRL @KlaimGames @EliseThornheart And online French banks are generous with their card tiers, you can get a Gold or World Elite Mastercard for free. However, any cashback mechanism will be severely limited by the issuing bank getting only 0.3% interchange fees. Unless you specifically use a card outside the cap.

@Mat_IRL @KlaimGames @EliseThornheart France is a bit special as most cards binned "credit" aren't really credit cards, but essentially debit cards that are auto-settled at the end of the month by the issuing bank. You can find some real credit cards though, example: fnac.com/carte-fnac-mas…

Explaining how debit cards work outside of the US to americans is actually a culture shock? Also, got the famous « imagine a burger »

@Mat_IRL @KlaimGames @EliseThornheart They aren't necessarily uncommon or even expensive. But interchange is capped in the EEE, and cashback or equivalent benefits are limited. Unless you get an AmEx. People get premium CCs for the insurance coverage mostly. For day to day shopping there's no benefit vs debit cards.

@KlaimGames @EliseThornheart Tbh in Europe it's mostly just that they're hard to come by and/or not worth it if the extra fee if too high vs expected perks. Otherwise for a responsible adult who trusts themselves with paying off their balance in time, there is no downside.

@SowPiano C'est complètement auto-déclaré donc je vois pas trop le soucis?

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