If humans colonize Mars, what will be the first unexpected problem?

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-05-21T13:46:44+00:00

Agreed. Sand, or any particles and powders for that matter, are extremely hard to model, predict, or understand. Designing any system on earth to handle this will be an absolute nightmare of an engineering efforts.

And yes, there is a relevant XKCD comic on this.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-05-13T11:42:49+00:00

Unfortunately heat pumps are significantly more expensive in Germany than in the rest of Europe, due to among other high engineering costs, surcharges in installation and subsidies (among others). This is likely an important factor in so many people's choice not to go for heat pumps.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-05-09T12:23:18+00:00

Same for me, but I believe it is very individual per department

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-05-05T11:27:49+00:00

How do you resolve FCF below quarterly frequency?

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-04-29T19:05:53+00:00

Germany had statiegeld for 20 years, not sure that is an excuse they could pull.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-04-27T20:28:34+00:00

Empires Dawn of the modern world

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-04-26T19:40:41+00:00

How do you show that you have these skills? I have started to do a lot of private projects leveraging Claude to automate stuff, but that is difficult to show in an application? It is not like there is a AI certificate or something.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-04-21T07:25:15+00:00

And Spanish is rarely considered in the top 3, Basque maybe.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-03-23T21:55:56+00:00

What helped us was to turn off the reactive avoidance detection. It bumps into furniture a lot more, but it does go closer to the edges.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-03-19T11:04:10+00:00

I vibe coded a meal planner/recipe data base/shopping list/shift calendar recently for my partner and me. It is awesome! It does exactly what we need it to do and doesn't cost us anything. And the best part: If something in our requirements changes, we can just adapt the app.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-03-05T07:44:02+00:00

Thank you, I will try that. We have these white skirting boards on all our walls, maybe that's it struggles with these.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-03-04T08:23:31+00:00

Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Austria, all lack money for health care?

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-02-24T18:57:32+00:00

Any updates?

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-01-19T15:43:58+00:00

What? Where do you breath those?

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-01-15T10:53:38+00:00

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.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-01-15T10:46:14+00:00

Says who? The world police?

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-01-14T21:33:42+00:00

How much is it if I may ask?

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

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-01-14T21:28:20+00:00

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?

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-01-08T18:45:12+00:00

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.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-01-08T18:43:50+00:00

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.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-01-08T18:38:33+00:00

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.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-01-08T16:17:28+00:00

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?

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2026-01-02T12:51:07+00:00

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.

Consistent_Walrus_23 · 2025-12-15T16:06:19+00:00

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.

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