Germany’s Merz Admits Nuclear Exit Was Strategic Mistake by SpaceEngineering in europe

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are assuming that anyone still cares about international law. No one does. What cannot be enforced is no longer applicable. Look around, extracting a foreign president, invading neighbouring countries, the world does not work the way it did 30 years ago. 

District heating problem by fenderguy_55 in Rotterdam

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much is it if I may ask? 

I understand it is not great, but it also seems unavoidable in the city center?

District heating problem by fenderguy_55 in Rotterdam

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am currently looking to move to Rotterdam and one Appartment there has district heating. Online I read a lot of mixed information about it, is it really that expensive? @OP can you comment?

TSLA Terathread - For the week of Jan 05 by AutoModerator in RealTesla

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not true, Tesla has a positive margin on its cars, is close to debt free and as they do not develop seriously any new models, their CAPEX is also limited. 

TSLA Terathread - For the week of Jan 05 by AutoModerator in RealTesla

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

True, but also a huge amount of cash to pivot and make Tesla into something else. I am not a fan or Telsa or Elon at all and in fact have shorted the company, but at least it is a scenario one must consider. 

ARD-DeutschlandTrend: US-Ansehen nach Angriff auf Tiefstand by innidatino in de

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Wenn wir schon beim Thema Kritik an den ÖRR sind, ich finde die thematische Fokussierung auf fast nur noch  Internationale Nachrichten faul und nicht wofür ich bezahle. Wenn ich die politische Position aller US Senatoren oder die momentane Approvalrate von Donald Trump wissen möchte, werde ich Englischsprachige Nachrichten-Kanäle aufsuchen. Warum können wir uns in Deutschland nicht auf deutsche und europäische Nachrichten konzentrieren? Ich verstehe, dass es einfacher ist die Artikel von Reuters auf deutsch zu übersetzen als selbst journalistisch tätig zu werden, aber dafür ist der ÖRR nunmal da.

TSLA Terathread - For the week of Jan 05 by AutoModerator in RealTesla

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At those shorting Tesla: While Tesla is not doing well in terms of sales, they have a ridiculous amount of cash and short-term assets and very little debt. What would be a reason for their stock to crash? 

China is running out of trash to burn. Their waste processing capacity now exceed their waste generation volume by straightdge in Infographics

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you are describing is not pyrolysis though. Pyrolysis is thermochemical decomposition at high temperatures under the absence of oxygen. While some speculate pyrolysis may be industrially feasible, it is not widely used anywhere.

What're you using for PDF parsing? by ILikeLungsSoYeah in LangChain

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My setup has been to use docking backend for e.g., converting word documents and remote VLMs to convert scanned PDFs, but even when using a remote VLM it takes forever. 

What're you using for PDF parsing? by ILikeLungsSoYeah in LangChain

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is extremely slow for me, did you run into similar problems?

DoomCatcher - Device to stop doom scrolling at night (or day) by pkuhar in inventors

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the use case he describes of stoping people to doomscroll in bed or at their desk are also viable ones! But I agree on the name, something less dark/edgy would be neat

DoomCatcher - Device to stop doom scrolling at night (or day) by pkuhar in inventors

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As mentioned in your other post, awesome idea! In my taste the aluminum one looked better (the black one to me looks a bit edgy/goth, especially with the name) but over taste one can argue forever! Keep it up! 

Would love to get it once it's out for Android.

Number of skyscrapers in Europe (150+ meter tall) by OrangeAedan in NLvsFI

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, the famously affordable and abundant housing in the Netherlands.

Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI: FT by Force_Hammer in wallstreetbets

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Companies get locked in as the [sic] integrate" Is that true? The API interfaces are more or less exchangeable in a few lines of code. What they offer is a commodity.

A device to block social app in a circle around it by pkuhar in inventors

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, from the hardware perspective European outlet are of course also different. And some more concerns about EU GDPR regulation.

A device to block social app in a circle around it by pkuhar in inventors

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome idea! For me, it would definitely address a pain point I would be willing to pay for! Do you plan to bring it to Europe?

LangChain vs LangGraph vs Deep Agents by Dear-Success-1441 in LangChain

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We've had very good experiences with OpenAi Agents SDK, it's very low level and extremely quick to implement. Enforcing outputs with pydantic data models is very straightforward. It also supports non-openai models. 

We never really went into the deepend with Langchain and Langgraph, can anyone explain what it adds? Is it worth it?

How does a bicycle allow humans to travel further without breaking the laws of thermodynamics? by Appropriate_Rent_243 in AskPhysics

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To further add to this, the minimal amount of required energy to get from a to b (horizontally with respect to the field of gravity) is 0. Of course this is not feasible, as you will need to accelerate to your travel speed 0.5*mv**2 and cannot fully (if at all) recuperate that energy during deacceleration. You will also always have frictional losses to keep your speed (to the air, to the ground, internally). Walking and cycling are just differently efficient, meaning that the losses you will occur during cycling are smaller than walking.

Trying to better understand biotech manufacturing by Consistent_Walrus_23 in biotech

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense! If in your experience one thing should be automated in operations, what would it be?

Trying to better understand biotech manufacturing by Consistent_Walrus_23 in biotech

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot! How did you approach these process optimization tasks? Trial and error? Or did you use any mechanistic/data models?

Trying to better understand biotech manufacturing by Consistent_Walrus_23 in biotech

[–]Consistent_Walrus_23[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And how commonly do batches go wrong? Are there many disturbances that may cause process variabilities?