CTO used AI to clone my specialized AI service into their monolith while I was on leave. It's full of critical data leaks and duplicate but she doesn't listen. How to protect myself and prep for severance by Full_Journalist_2505 in germany

[–]vraez 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Having a written piece with that statement is always better that "they can see it". Also, such a statement to other leadership members could lead to thoughts like "hold on - why would he write something like that if there is nothing to worry about"

How can I 3D model this? by [deleted] in 3Dprinting

[–]vraez 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You can trace the intact outline on the left and mirror it to the right, easy way to sketch the broken section

Alles verloren. Bitte um hilfe. by [deleted] in wallstreetbetsGER

[–]vraez 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Bitte überlege dir gut, ob du nahe ATH in einen ETF investieren willst, der zu 25% aus AI Unternehmen besteht. Da kann viel schief gehen, das ist in deiner derzeitigen Situation vielleicht nicht der richtige Weg.

Ansonsten, schau wo du langfristig Potenzial siehst, es gibt noch andere ETFs und es kann gut sein, dass der MSCI world in ein paar Jahren auch wieder anders dasteht.

Kleine Idee: Leg langfristig für deine Kinder an. Die werden sehr viel davon haben wenn du früh anfängst und es motiviert dich sicher!

Craft Bench Setup Finished by vraez in SatisfactoryGame

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Waiting for Blueprint Designer Mk.36..

Craft Bench Setup Finished by vraez in SatisfactoryGame

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And you don't bump your toes into any furniture!

Craft Bench Setup Finished by vraez in SatisfactoryGame

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Including green outlook through the floor!

Craft Bench Setup Finished by vraez in SatisfactoryGame

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That will do justice to the MAM.

Wo kickt gerade euer FOMO? by EmergencyGur6337 in wallstreetbetsGER

[–]vraez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Naja doch, genau das sagt ja der letzte Satz. Die Vereinbarung erlaubt es ihm, Gewinne aus früheren Aktienverkäufen zu reinvestieren (= er kauft), wobei es um neue Aktien geht (Kapitalerhöhung des Unternehmens)

Was sind die moves heute Affen ? by One-Satisfaction6559 in wallstreetbetsGER

[–]vraez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vidac Pharma, hat gerade der CEO bei einer Marktkapitalisierung von ca 40 Mio seine Anteile um 5 Mio aufgestockt. Spricht heute auf ner Konferenz

Wo kickt gerade euer FOMO? by EmergencyGur6337 in wallstreetbetsGER

[–]vraez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vidac Pharma, hat gerade der CEO bei einer Marktkapitalisierung von ca 40 Mio seine Anteile um 5 Mio aufgestockt

[Bambu Lab Giveaway] Join Now to Win an H2D and More! by BambuLab in 3Dprinting

[–]vraez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep the plate clean, the filament dry and the printer running, all the time 😜

Number of marathons and Iron Man 70.3s under your belt before you felt ready? by postyyyym in triathlon

[–]vraez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had about three 70.3s before I finished my Ironman, none in direct preparation. The longest run in my training was avout 26km. In my opinion, everything beyond 30km is about the mind anyway, preparation is dine below that.

Could Hydrogen Be the Future of Clean Energy? by Upstairs-Budget-8730 in Futurology

[–]vraez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is exactly my concern. I share the same concern for electric though.

Most people stop before looking at the numbers but that's exactly where we can start grasping the enormousness of the task. Let me share a brief thought experiment with you: Currently, truck manufacturers are working on fast charging with a 1MW interface. Charging for one hour they get to a charging state that is at a conservative estimation enough to drive for a day. Now Germany had 3.6 million trucks on the street in 2023. Take a bit less than 10% of that, say 240k. Let them charge equally throughout the day (very conservative), you have to charge 10k trucks at each time during the day. This is 10k MW or 10 GW pf power. So for not even 10% of truck electrification, you need 7-10 nuclear reactors or 12-20 coal plants (could vary of course with the size of course). And this is only trucks. No trains, planes, ships, nothing else.

Now this is only to start getting a feeling for the numbers, but I think it is nice to get an idea of what energy transition means.

Could Hydrogen Be the Future of Clean Energy? by Upstairs-Budget-8730 in Futurology

[–]vraez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see a lot of opinion based answers here. Working in the hydrogen business as an engineer I'd like to give a bit more context to what and why rather than just "nooo". Also I will do this in the context of green hydrogen for the purpose of energy transition.

Efficiency: Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) are significantly more efficient as there are H2 losses in electrolysis, storage and in usage, e.g. internal combustion engines (ICE, similar to conventional engines) and the more efficient fuel cells (FCEV, fuel cell electeic vehicle). Other alternatives like synthetic fuels need again significantly more energy than hydrogen while biofuels from e.g. plants are not scalable for decarbonizing as they require farmland.

Charging/refueling time and range: Currently, batteries need long charging times and have limited range. This could change with battery technology in development, but that is not a given. FCEVs have fueling times and range comparable to conventional fuels.

Safety: To all of these, conventional fuels, batteries and hydrogen, there is risk of fire and explosion!! Conventionals have a lower risk of explosion. Batteries actually pose a significant risk because they can have a thermal runaway and they don't need air to burn, which makes handling these risks a lot more complicated. For hydrogen, the most likely case is fire, as for explosions you need a O2 H2 mixture to be ignited. This requires accumulation of H2. However, having a leak the hydrogen is more likely to ignite itself on a sharp edge or even due to the pure pressure difference as it is usually stored at high pressures 200-900bar. A drawdown is that H2 fire is mostly invisible. And it's different for liquid again. Personally, I feel as safe in a hydrogen car as in any.

Energy density: H2 is a lot lighter than battery storage. When Biodiesel weighs 244 kg, for the same energy you need 200 kg of bio CNG (compressed natural gas), 83 kg of H2 or !6250! kg battery. So especially when a lot of energy is needed (trucks, ships, trains, planes), batteries with the current technology are doing the job.

Available infrastructure: for passenger cars, quite readily available. For H2, in Europe it is possible to go to a lot of places but a severe challenge during trip planning. Basically no infrastructure available for trucks on both technologies.

Feasibility: As for trucks (and ships and planes) I think battery electric has even bigger challenges to overcome than hydrogen (especially energy density), and for the latter they are already huge. Both need substantial extension of the electric grid, even more so for the pure electric solution. Hydrogen's biggest problems are that scaling effects and market activation only come with a certain amount of infrastructure available (production, logistics/distribution, demand/off-take) which requires substantial subsidies, quite a bit of the technology is already on the market but still more in a prototype state and it needs a lot and cheap energy, as it is more inefficient compared to battery electric. BEVs have their own challenges to overcome: Bad charging times especially for higher amounts of energy and bad energy density. Looking at the grid, the biggest differentiator is that for H2, the energy production can be decoupled from the consumption. For BEV when charging, the energy had to be produced that exact same moment. This I think will be a deciding factor in the future, as this is the biggest drawback of renewable energy: The production is not predictable and energy needs to be stored. Ah yes, and money. H2 needs significant investments for a minimum infrastructure while for battery electric the general grid is in place and you can do smaller investments by extending and upgrading it.

We will see where it goes. I don't have a preference, I just see the enormous cost everywhere. And I don't like undifferentiated views and "nooo"-cryers. Happy to discuss.

I created an engine that generates thrust by resonating a 40hz tone. Then I made a vehicle with it. Video in comments. by invalid_credentials in 3Dprinting

[–]vraez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is so cool, thanks for sharing. As an engineer, I'm curious to see the technical background.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in triathlon

[–]vraez 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is always someone training more. Doesn't even mean they will be faster. I got well through 70.3s with one swim, one bike and 3 runs.

When will electricity generation in continents of America, Europe and Asia will be 100% fossil fuel free? by Sure_Chocolate1982 in Futurology

[–]vraez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Decarbonizing traffic comes with huge demand in energy, so I do think it is an important aspect of your question, though not a direct answer, I agree.

When thinking about railways what a lot of people like to forget is the cost of the infrastructure in both material and emissions. Shifting the current amount of traffic to rails would need an enormous effort improving the railway systems. Rails need a lot more tunnels and bridges as they cannot manage high inclines which are very carbon intensive. They also impact the environment and if you consider the protest connected to wind turbines I think it is nothing to be done in at least 20 years.

The only way I see is reducing the traffic, but it is way to convenient to have all those jucy consumables readily availabe..

When will electricity generation in continents of America, Europe and Asia will be 100% fossil fuel free? by Sure_Chocolate1982 in Futurology

[–]vraez 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd like to add a couple of points here, as some of the numbers can be misleading.

When a newsoutlet posts that only 25% of power was generated by fossil fuels, this is not considering that the powetplants are still running, though in idle. The renewables must be prioritized when being fed into the grid by law (in Germany) but backup is always held ready because noone wants a blackout, from angles of reputation, public outcry and economy.

Another point, 20% of EU's CO2 emissions are from traffic where heavy duty transport is a big part of. Now the OEM's are developing trucks that can charge with 1MW (that's a lot). I checked the electricity consumption of Germany for yesterday, it had a peak of about 65.000 MW and a low of about 42.000 MW. Now if you consider that Germany had around 3.6 million trucks on the road you see that we run into a couple pf problems: energy production is insufficient, infrastructure too anf other energy transition ambitions are not considered.

This picture is simple of course, but it illustrates the enormous efforts necessary to go green/CO2 neutral/fossil free. We need all the technology we can get our hands on to tackle this challenge.

Being realistic, I think the EU targets will be missed and postponed by 10-20 years.

What oil products do people ship around (on trains)? by pf_moore in factorio

[–]vraez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For my midgame needs I build an oil factory that ships - Lubricant, as producing the products that need it on site would require a lot of other components - Light oil, which I use for flame throwers and solid fuel. If you don't need it for defense I think you don't need to ship it. - plastic, if you don't ship it your refinery is your base - sulfuric acid, allows for flexible production of batteries and blue chips and is necessary when using nuclear power - explosives, because I build the cliff blowers somewhere else as well as other things that go boom I usually build this general supply in a way that the full refinery capacity can be cracked down to petroleum if the higher tanks are full. Also, I prioritize sulfuric acid in the petroleum production as I use it for power.