amonith

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by amonith 2y ago
I don't think true US-like "salaried contracts" exist at all in EU. Speaking as a Polish contractor. There might be fixed-price short-term project-based contracts but it has nothing to do with employment and definitely it&#x2
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by amonith 2y ago
If you do offer equity then that's a slightly different thing. That can be considered payment by those who are willing to take the risk. However, a lot of "startups" in EU do not offer such thing. They do standard employment
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by amonith 2y ago
Outside of FAANGs, especially in lower cost of living countries (e.g. here in Poland) and high demand jobs (e.g. mid+ software engineers) employers compete for employees most of the time. The reason is simple: nobody's offering above m
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by amonith 2y ago
What do you mean by the last sentence? Isn't it the opposite? People who could do art stuff won't be able to sustain themselves using those skills anymore because those will be devalued a lot.
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by amonith 2y ago
Individuals are allowed to do that by law. Companies cannot do that to create commercial products. They need to obtain relevant permissions / licenses from the creators first.
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by amonith 2y ago
"AI art is stealing" is an oversimplification of "companies are stealing unlicensed user generated content to create a commercial product" which is absolutely true. Nobody grants commercial use rights to their output by
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by amonith 2y ago
Wow, that's insane. Here in Poland product descriptions are legally binding. You can straight up sue if you don't get what the description says in any online store. Pictures are optional though, those you could potentially generat
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by amonith 2y ago
Not only there's a "trust-crisis" looming over the AI world (only tech bro enthusiasts seem to enjoy what AI is doing) it's straight up just a technical detail. Describing the technology the product runs on in the descri
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by amonith 2y ago
To be honest never-ending myriad of "local" conflicts and long-term economy downturn stresses me much more than nuclear war. That would be over pretty quick...
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by amonith 2y ago
I do now but the damage is done. I already know what's happening even without updates. Also I have <200km to war-torn Lviv, so... kind of concerns me.
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by amonith 2y ago
It's based on a Stack Overflow user survey which is incredibly biased towards "enthusiastic junior" kind of developers. I mean "active user of Stack Overflow" (somebody who cares about some kind of survey on the web
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by amonith 2y ago
I'm not sure I've met anybody happy this year (I live in Poland but it's not because I live in Poland I swear :D). It's not just job uncertainty. Our whole world (that is "1st" and "2nd" world countri
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by amonith 2y ago
Really interesting how this is viewed in different countries. How far does this go? Does this include Gacha game devs? How about people working on loot boxes in gaming (like finance/marketing people who come up with new boxes)? Or NFTs
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by amonith 2y ago
Interesting topic because I wouldn't want to work with those 20% who reject people based on n-th level relationship to anything controversial. I get not wanting to deal with people who run these things but employees? Those "anti-p
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by amonith 2y ago
All startups are probably way more risky. Law works against gambling. Entire market works against startups.
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by amonith 2y ago
Gambling itself is sketchy but legally hired employees especially developer-level have to be somehow protected from the decisions of the business, no? Unless you're worried about the crime itself (as in somebody might threaten you pers
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by amonith 2y ago
Maybe it's a country thing but here in Poland no one would care. Various forms of gambling are legal under supervision of authorities so legal companies exist around that. Unlike porn it wouldn't really be an embarrassing topic on
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by amonith 2y ago
Then what is? I know the higher ups / owners have to deal with some straight up mafia shit or money laundering but a gambling company doesn't really look bad on a CV the way porn industry or even a government job (at least here in
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by amonith 2y ago
Ironically probably porn is the most unsexy on a CV.
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by amonith 2y ago
Why would gambling be high risk for employees? Unless you compare it to some cushy govt job it isn't really more "layoff-prone" than others.
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by amonith 2y ago
Fun fact from Poland: Here a real "Professional State Licensed Engineer" degree (anything outside IT) is absolutely NOT worth it because the market for most jobs is local. Only Software "Enginneering" (with or without de
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by amonith 2y ago
Not an impossible problem only in theory. It's currently practically impossible and will take at least a year to solve if anybody starts to work on this at all. Since my current project does involve wrangling AI to do stuff - forcing i
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by amonith 2y ago
Worry not we started to outsource to India as well... My wife's company (low code domain-specific software creators) laid off 80% of their workforce and contracted a smaller amount of people from India. It's not going well but I b
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by amonith 2y ago
Idk, maybe it's not the exact book definition but I always thought about how well I'm paid in terms of the purchasing power, not the arbitrary value, and especially not by comparison with others (strictly speaking, because costs o
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by amonith 2y ago
Salaries are not going down but costs of living skyrocketed. I am in the top 3% earning bracket as a dev in my country (Poland), I live in a relatively cheap area (south-east) and when I reached my 30s I could afford to buy just a ~100sqm c
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by amonith 2y ago
And AI - which kind of changed the game in the recent years. A "blueprints copilot" akin to Github Copilot will be very difficult to create because there's no "blueprints text" to train an AI on. Nowadays in my hobb
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by amonith 2y ago
It absolutely does, I don't quite get comments here. All VR games use normal assets with all their normal (map) shenanigans. It works the same as on desktop. Sure if you look at something super close the "illusion" breaks, bu
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by amonith 2y ago
Taran (ex LTT member) has an excellent video on it as he unfortunately experiences negative side effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQDAXSbwhR0 Edit: I misremembered, he got PRK, but he does talk about consequences of
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by amonith 2y ago
I think we have a misunderstanding - I don't mind if I'm reading AI generated content as long as it doesn't look like "the typical AI content" (or SEO slop). In my point of view companies/writers might use AI d
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by amonith 2y ago
Yeah but to reach that point you will probably need those "useless AI detectors" (as stated by the comment I was replying to). That was my point - we're not there yet therefore those tools can be useful.

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