Wie kommt es eigentlich, dass in der Schweiz oft Umlaute umschrieben werden?

Wie kommt es eigentlich, dass in der Schweiz oft Umlaute umschrieben werden?

Schilder in Mundart natürlich ausgenommen, aber das hier ist ja z.B. ein offizielles SBB Schild. Ich finde das wundersam, ist ja nicht als ob die SBB nicht den richtigen Zeichensatz hätte.

u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 3 days ago

With accounts smattered across the globe, are there general guidelines in what order to deplete them?

There's IRAs, personal brokerage, CDs, RRSP, pillar 2 and 3 etc etc.

There's a good number of them that only become penalty free at a certain age, but even then, first IRA, or Roth IRA? There's Roth ladders, so I guess that one first? And dip into Social Security as late as possible? Or does one get a fixed amount of money essentially with Social Security, so it doesn't matter?

Are there any good guidelines for this?

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 16 days ago

Slowdown of bubble absorption at the end?

I've been keeping track of the absorption of my C3F8 bubble, and I'm down to maybe 10% at this point. I was excited that it would only be a matter of days from here on until its gone, but I get the distinct impression it's now slowing down.

Is that just an impression, or is it actually slowing down at the end?

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 18 days ago

AI can be a great way of understanding what's going on with a retinal detachment, but it is also ridiculously paranoid

Already after the 2-week checkup did the doctor say I'm fine to swim again, but I figured I'd play it safe and wait until the 3-week checkup. I once again got the green light then, and now after 3.5 weeks I just went for the first time. Figured I'd also check some websites from eye centers, and they usually allow swimming after 2 weeks too.

Google AI: "It is extremely important to abstain from any swimming for 6 weeks". I assume this is a legal thing from Google, where the prompt includes something like "err on the extreme side of caution (to not get Google into trouble)".

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 23 days ago

Ich konnte es eigentlich nicht glauben, aber das stimmt echt: die Akkordeonspieler an den Bahnhöfen können gar nicht spielen, sie haben einen Lautsprecher drin

Ich war lange verwundert warum die alle so gut spielen können, und dann habe ich das vor kurzem online gelesen. Heute am Basel SBB genau angeguckt, und ja, die Frau schiebt nur die Hände über die Klaviatur, drückt aber nichts.

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 23 days ago

PSA: "Results-driven", "Team-Oriented", "Self-motivated" are meaningless phrases and hurt your resume instead of helping it

Feel free to post more meaningless fluff phrases here that people write in their resumes that actually hurt more than help.

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 1 month ago

Things I didn't expect to see: my gas bubble is now at exactly 50%, the macula's pulse is creating ripples in the aqueous humor :)

I guess it gives me entertainment while I'm waiting for the bubble to disappear....

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 1 month ago

Retirement tool is awesome, but is there a way to know in what order it sells off the accounts to arrive at the projections?

I know there's Monte Carlo simulations going into the analysis, but is it completely random in its selloff strategy, or is it following a fixed order to do so!

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 1 month ago

In the course of the movie, Captain Decker goes from captaining the Enterprise to being demoted twice, and losing his love interest. When he says "Jim, I want this!" at the end about merging with V'ger, I think the sad reality is he offed himself.

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 1 month ago

AI is convinced my tax accountant made me pay too much US taxes. Can you guys confirm?

I worked in Switzerland the entire year last year, but I got some delayed Massachusetts unemployment payment right in January also.

I got taxed in Switzerland on those payments because they count as income, and the same on the US side it seems. AI is convinced my tax accountant should have filed a "re-sourced by treaty" Form 1116 to reclaim this double taxation.

Is this true? I've been trying to reach out to my tax accountant, but conveniently their email server isn't working.....

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 2 months ago

WM Public Viewing am Münster?

Ich würde gerne am Samstag nach Freiburg zum Weinfest, aber auch das Kanada-Marokko Spiel sehen.

Gibt es irgendwo in der Nähe des Münsters die Möglichkeit das Spiel zu sehen?

Danke im voraus!

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 2 months ago

Expat with Fidelity HSA account, checks are apparently the only way to withdraw from the HSA. My non-American bank will no longer accept checks soon; what do I do now?

I'm an American citizen living in Switzerland, and I have an HSA account with Fidelity. I was told I can not transfer money from the HSA account to my brokerage account (that way I could wire the money to myself in Switzerland), the only possible way was a physical check that Fidelity sent me that I deposited at my local bank (UBS Switzerland).

However, the teller informed me that they will no longer accept checks from private customers from October on, frankly I'm not surprised as it is 2026 and Europe phased out checks decades ago.

What are my options to withdraw money from my HSA account?

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/basel

Sichere Velo-Abstellmöglichkeit in Rheinfelden?

Ich würde gerne manchmal von Rheinfelden nach Stein fahren mit meinem Velo, aber nur, wenn das Wetter das zulässt. Stein hat ein "Velohaus" direkt am Bahnhof wo das Velo vor Witterung (und Dieben) geschützt ist, gibt es sowas auch in Rheinfelden?

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 2 months ago

Tools for doing the tax return yourself?

I recently moved to Switzerland, and I just had my first tax return done by a professional, which was very expensive given how much I ended up paying in taxes to the US. The Swiss tax return I am confident I can do myself from here on, but the American one is pretty convoluted, specifically Part II of Form 1116, i.e. how to tease apart my share from the combined Swiss tax return.

I was looking at HR Block, but from what I can tell they're not guiding you through this crucial calculation.

Are there any good tools that guide you through these calculations?

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 3 months ago
▲ 2 r/PLC

Trying to gauge how much logic the PLC should handle vs peripheral components running code (Python/C++). Any guidelines?

I'm the main software dev on a project where there's a combination of components speaking Ethernet/IP, but also plain computers I'm hoping to have TCP sockets open, which the PLC will talk to.

The problem I'm facing is, I don't know how hard or easy it is to build and maintain complex, parallelized executions on a PLC. I could offload a good amount of complex code to the peripheral components and thus keep the PLC code minimal, or I could essentially say "the PLC will do it all".

Are there any guidelines here? My tendency is to offload as much as possible, but that may simply be because it is something I personally know, versus the black box the PLC (and its capabilities) is.

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 3 months ago

The original replacement lasted about 3 years, here goes hopefully many more years without having to buy a new suitcase (PLA core + TPU edge)

u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 3 months ago
▲ 11 r/ender3

Converted my Ender 3 to direct drive, but during the bed leveling sequence it bumps against the right column. Is it possible to shift the overall X offset?

I tried some AI suggestions, but they haven't done anything thus far. Any suggestions?

u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 3 months ago
▲ 119 r/robotics

Robotics as a discipline is already hard enough, but what nobody ever talks about is that all these components need to be certified, not just separately but also as a whole. You need seasoned experts in each subdomain (software, electric, mechanic) that can produce components to the level that will pass OSHA, Regulation 2023/1230 etc etc. This usually requires outside labs for independent validation of safety standards, which can take years especially if humans have to get anywhere close to the device.

Both companies I work for have been utterly unaware of this, and are now finding out that "4 months to market" are actually rather "1.5 years to market".

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u/Successful_Farm_9370 — 4 months ago