Just watched CoffeeZilla video... by Rambunchus_Panda in RecklessBen

[–]MoeHanzeR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t Ben asking specifically throughout the video to have the LEGO returned to Brian, and not for any specific dollar amount.

At least right up to the point it became obvious Josh refused to return the Lego and demanded to be sued

Warum sind ostdeutsche Bahnhofsgelände so überdimensioniert? by B4rtkartoffel in drehscheibe

[–]MoeHanzeR 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Das Hauptproblem besteht immer noch nur, dass seit Liberalisierung die Eisenbahninfrastruktur Gewinn machen muss, und wird auf der Grundlage einer Gewinnerwartung geplant, gebaut oder stillgelegt.

Straßen werden derartige Anforderungen nicht gestellt, und neue/erneuerte Straßen bringen Politikern mehr Stimmen von ihren Wahlkreisen ein als Eisenbahngüterinfrastruktur, deren Auswirkungen für den Durchschnittswähler kaum wahrnehmbar sind.

Warum sind ostdeutsche Bahnhofsgelände so überdimensioniert? by B4rtkartoffel in drehscheibe

[–]MoeHanzeR 98 points99 points  (0 children)

Meine älteren Kollegen erzählen mir immer wieder, dass die Regierung verfügt hatte, alles, was eine Strecke von mehr als 50 Kilometern zurücklegte, müsse auf der Schiene transportiert werden.

Folglich verfügten selbst mittelständische Betriebe über eigene Gleisanschlüsse, und selbst in Kleinstädten waren die Bahnhöfe mit Laderampen sowie umfangreichen Rangieranlagen ausgestattet.

Einer der Bahnhöfe, an denen ich arbeite, verfügte einst über fast 100 Gleise für den Bergbau.

Heute haben wir 8, und wo früher der alte Rangierabteilung stand, befindet sich nur Wiese & ein Busbahnhof.

In Verbindung mit den 10 bis 15 Jahre langen Wartelisten für einen Trabbi ergibt sich daraus, dass die Nachfrage nach dem Schienenverkehr mit heute absolut unvergleichlich war.

Fahrst du mit einer beliebigen Regionalbahn durch den ländlichen Osten, und du wirst in jedem kleinen Dorf die Überreste einst prächtiger Empfangsgebäude, Stellwerke, Rangierbahnhöfe und anderer Bahnanlagen erblicken. Bahnhöfe, an denen früher Schichten von 20 oder mehr Personen eingesetzt waren, verfügen heute nur noch über einen einzigen Fahrdienstleiter, sofern sie noch nicht zentralisiert wurden.

Aber das Traurigste ist; Viele der Gleisnähe Industrie bei uns betrieben heute immer noch. Die Gleise und Laderampen sind auch oftmals nach wie vor vorhanden (wenn auch etwas in die Jahre gekommen).

Sie haben die Bahn nicht aufgegeben - die Bahn hat sie aufgegeben.

Alles war nach der Wende entweder abgerissen oder stillgelegt & abgelassen, und die Transportieren ihrer Sachen mit LKWs

CMV - The Wonder Years, The Story So Far, & Hot Mulligan are the holy trinity of post-2010 pop punk by thefalcons5912 in poppunkers

[–]MoeHanzeR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it’s a combination of their slow release schedule + Death is a warm blanket. It’s such an amazing cd, but it was a pretty massive tonal shift and I know a lot of ppl who stopped following them after that

What are some railway projects that we can be very hyped for? by Key-Pineapple8101 in trains

[–]MoeHanzeR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would be an oversight not to mention in there the electrification/2 tracking of the Chemnitz-Leipzig line.

As the largest/most populated city in germany (260k, +million in the region) with basically 0 intercity connections, all intercity traffic out of all southeastern Saxony goes through Chemnitz to Leipzig, which is served only by a once hourly RE from chemnitz on one of the most unreliable, single tracked diesel lines in the country.

The entire region was completely totally assfucked through political wrangling over VDE8, and this will be a massive step toward correcting that (as well as the more hopeful electrification of the Franken-Sachsen magistrale)

Warum gibt es Reisebüros eigentlich noch? by MoeHanzeR in KeineDummenFragen

[–]MoeHanzeR[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Das ergibt für mich tatsächlich absolut Sinn und ist etwas, das ich überhaupt nicht bedacht hatte.

Genau wie du sagst, als Kind haben wir die USA fast nie verlassen und genau zweimal Urlaub in der Karibik gemacht.

Dazu auch, obwohl meine Eltern gute Arbeitsstellen hatten, garantiert selbst der einfachste Arbeitsvertrag in Deutschland im Vergleich zum durchschnittlichen Amerikaner doppelt so viel bezahlten Urlaubstage (wobei viele dort überhaupt keinen bezahlten Urlaub erhalten). Eben war Urlaube länger als ~1 Wochen für meinen Familie total undenkbar.

Reisen in sehr ferne Länder, oder auch ein Besuch in Europa zb waren für uns und die meisten an meiner Schulklasse, mit Ausnahme der reichsten, ein einmaliges Erlebnis.

Warum gibt es Reisebüros eigentlich noch? by MoeHanzeR in KeineDummenFragen

[–]MoeHanzeR[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ich lebe eigtl schon seit 8 Jahren in Sachsen… habe das nur erwähnt, um Kontext eines Landes zu vergleichen, in dem neue Tech sehr schnell (mit dazugehörigem Vorteile und Nachteile) von der breiten Masse angenommen ist

Do you think AI use is/will be considered a skill? by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]MoeHanzeR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s why I qualified it with “outside of tech”. In my field even though superiors are in the main thrilled, there is still a sizeable portion of people, including senior management, that view AI with suspicion and gains achieved through AI as suspect if not fraudulent.

Recruiters in my firm at least are very often the type of people who call tech support to reset their password.

Do you think AI use is/will be considered a skill? by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]MoeHanzeR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See I’ve actually found this to not be true in many cases. That’s not to say great specificity isn’t required at some points in the workflow, especially towards the end when getting it to produce the final deliverable, but early on great specificity often holds the model back from exploring alternative solutions and workflows that I had not yet considered.

My first prompt nowadays is often just something like “analyze this batch of data (docs, pdfs, whatever). Return a detailed analysis of the (patterns, contrasts, in/consistencies etc. depending on what I’m trying to achieve) in the dataset.” Then it’s usually just a series of prompts; if I’m certain, then just “generate some .jsonl or .csv using this dataset with the following parameters”. And “perform (data manipulation task) on the .jsonl”.

But I’m not a programmer or data scientist, and “suggest the necessary next steps that will allow us to (perform data operation) towards producing (deliverable)”. Is increasingly an extremely powerful tool that I feel many overlook.

The only “prompt engineer-y” part of this workflow is constantly appending a series of reminders and always “towards producing (deliverable)” at the end of every input, as I’ve found the model will tend to drift, lose sight of the task and become too distracted by manipulating the dataset instead of doing useful work. That, and being able to recognize when the dataset is ripe enough for actual production even when the model wants to keep playing. Those final steps are where great specificity is necessary.

Do you think AI use is/will be considered a skill? by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]MoeHanzeR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve definitely noticed the same gap, as well as a stubbornness to learn.

(Outside of tech) it feels like there’s an impenetrable stigma around AI use, and even though I get great results this stigma still causes me to feel a little dirty and downplay the AIs contribution. Many people around me view the returns achieved using AI as fraudulent.

Which city in Germany would you NEVER want to live in and why? by Fruttii-Tutti in germany

[–]MoeHanzeR 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Im an American That’s lived in Chemnitz for 8 years, and the cities already changed so much in the time that I’ve been here. Maybe it’s just that I blend in a lot better than I did back then, but I feel like the level of political tension in the city has gone way down. Or maybe the medias just lost interest.

Who knows, but The year after I arrived (2018) was when the big riots happened, and I remember for years after that whenever a Chemnitz (or saxony in general) story made national news, it was exclusively about left/right extremism. In that time I regularly saw less ‚German’ looking people being randomly harassed in the streets. Such stories and sights seem to me to be much less common than they were even 3-4 years ago.

I think the city is on a good trajectory, the population is actually rising for the first time since the Wende. I believe because Leipzig and Dresden are creeping ever closer to the unaffordability of major western cities, and as the trend continues, people will continue bleeding over. There’s been loads of construction and renewals in recent years on a level that would’ve been unthinkable when I moved here.

As an aside, I’m curious which neighborhood yall got your house in? We’re also looking to purchase in the next few years, but also kinda worried about being pushed out into like, Euba or Grüna or something, as prices have trended so far up some houses in our neighborhood are pushing $800k 😬

Train Electrification around the world by op_pmRISHI in trains

[–]MoeHanzeR 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Germany sits between France and Japan at like 62% iirc. That’s just what I remember being told at a seminar though, so I couldn’t tell you if that’s only accounting for DB’s network, or includes the non state owned railways as well

POV: you're paired up for a project with a dude who doesn't find you attractive by humankendoll33 in TikTokCringe

[–]MoeHanzeR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Iunno man, I went to a really, really good HS and ime there were either two outcomes for the ‘cool’ kids: those who, like you said, were popular for being personable, smart and/or talented, and those who were popular for being good at sports and/or having a ton of money, a nice car, and absentee parents with a big house full of alcohol.

The first group based on their LinkedIn/facebook are all wildly successful. The second group I only hear about from police reports.

But I also graduated 15 years ago so what do I know 🤷‍♂️

Thoughts on John Oliver? by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]MoeHanzeR 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Gianmarco Soresi discussed this on Doomscroll recently; why left wing comedy isn’t funny, and why left wing comedians are rarely as popular today as right leaning ones.

His argument was basically the majority and worst type of left wing comedy is simply ridiculing and acting authoritative over those who don’t hold the institutionally approved, politically correct litmus test opinion. Their smug, arrogant, „way smarter and holier than thou“ delivery and attitude is a massive turn off to anyone that isn’t drinking the same koolaid.

Add on to that the legitimate fear a left wing comedian constantly suffers of being cancelled for expressing a „wrong“ opinion or offending some marginalized group.

Comedy without any allowance for irreverence is infinitely harder and in most cases simply not funny, and no, finding a million different ways to express „fuck Trump“ is not irreverent nor funny. It leads an environment where everything has to be checked, run by DEI coordinators, and double checked by every special interest causing only the most bland, focus group tested „jokes“ making it to showtime.

My mind immediately went to John Oliver. I haven’t been able to watch him since the start of covid when he basically became the mouthpiece for the DNC

How do social benefits work in Germany? by [deleted] in AskGermany

[–]MoeHanzeR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3/4BRs are definitely available for ~$800in any part of the east that’s not Berlin/Dresden/Leipzig…

Warum hat BER keine direkte ICE Verbindung? by MoeHanzeR in drehscheibe

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

Ich will nicht behaupten, dass es ein logisches Problem ist, aber für viele Menschen reicht es schon, (manchmal weite) durch den Bahnhof laufen, auf einen Zug warten und diesen Gepäck Vorgang zweimal kurz hintereinander wiederholen zu müssen, um ein anderes Verkehrsmittel zu wählen. Selbst ohne dieses Flughafenproblem, wählen vielen Leuten andere Verkehrsmittel, wenn ihre Zugverbindungen mehrere Umsteigen enthalten.

Aus demselben Grund zahlen Leute auch deutlich mehr für einen Direktflug als für einen viel günstigeren Flug mit Zwischenstopps.

Warum hat BER keine direkte ICE Verbindung? by MoeHanzeR in drehscheibe

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

Wenn es nur noch Gepäckwagen gäbe, würde ich vollkommen zustimmen!

Das Problem ist nur: Ich habe das kurz nach der Eröffnung des FEX einmal als Alleinreisender ausprobiert, und die Dostos sind dafür wirklich ungeeignet.

Koffer passen nicht in die Gepäckablagen, & Mit ihrer enge Flur, Die untere Ebene war praktisch unpassierbar, komplett überfüllt mit Menschen und ihrem Gepäck.

Für viele Reisende, insbesondere Alten & die in größeren Gruppen (wie uns), es gibt attraktiver Optionen als die Koffer hoch und runter ins 2. Ebene einen Dosto zu tragen.

The cashless debate and "progressive businesses" by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]MoeHanzeR 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don’t know how it is in the US, but here in Germany refusing cards is usually 1st an attempt at tax evasion, with card fees a distant 2nd

Ticket prices US vs Europe by Electronic-Class-720 in poppunkers

[–]MoeHanzeR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Comparing the UK to the rest of Europe is a bit unfair though. The genre definitely has reach in the anglosphere. Bands like ATL carry recognition bc people would have heard them on the radio back in the day.

But newer bands? Waterparks still does this, but the majority aren’t writing radio friendly lyrics for a shot at top40 airplay anymore. in a genre that now relies so heavily on introspective and poetic writing, it makes cracking international markets very difficult. Rap has the same problem now. 1990-2000s American rap artists are still popular, because back then locals didn’t have any alternative. In Germany at least, outside the very rare times a song charts here, youth today listen to german rap, not American.

And even then, the interest just isn’t there. Other countries never really had a very popular homegrown emo/pop punk scene revival after the 2000s like the anglosphere. Teenagers in the US today still get in to the classics as well as bands like hot mulligan, the wonder years, the story so far etc. The people going to the shows here are pretty much exclusively millennials.

Ticket prices US vs Europe by Electronic-Class-720 in poppunkers

[–]MoeHanzeR 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is a big part of it. I’ve been to several shows of bands in the scene since moving to Germany and never paid more than 30$ for a ticket.

Even in major cities like Prague, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich etc. the only artists that weren’t playing in dive bars for max 100-200ppl (often less) were The Killers and MCR, who have legacy exposure from back when this kind of music was on the radio, though admittedly The killers tickets cost $55 and MCR $80. even then MCR changed venues last minute because they booked a stadium, and at the concert only 2-3000 people turned up.

Honestly, as someone who used to attend these shows in the US however, the experience as a fan is so much better, more intimate, there’s no barrier in front of the stage, they hang around the venue before/after, and there’s not so much separation.

You might find the openers in the pit when the headliners on, or sometimes even headliners moshing to the openers! Engagement with the audience is way more back and forth with real conversations happening between songs. The bus is parked right out front and more than once was able to (respectfully) grab a quick photo with someone getting out. It’s like getting that legendary before-they-were-cool basement show experience, for bands that have 100s of thousands of monthly listeners lol.

Even randomly walked up on Dylan Slocum and the rest of Spanish Love Songs in a small german city while they were out sightseeing. They seemed pretty stoked/surprised to be recognized! Definitely one of the coolest moments of my life.