nicbou

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by nicbou 11mo ago
gov.uk has one. The US government has one too.
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I use it as a write only medium. I post about what I am doing and leave. It keeps my audience and people in my industry aware of what I am working on, and that makes my work more impactful. I have met many people that way, including my curr
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Is ethical consumption really a vanity activity? For the most part it just means not buying things. I don’t think that a Christian would consider “not sinning” a vanity activity. It’s just how people act about behaviour they consider harmfu
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Correct. It's not great from a labour perspective, but I don't think the goal is wage dumping. I believe the goal is to meet the demand with the available means.
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That's below the median income, so not a lot for trained personnel. Everything else you say is correct, but it applies to all German workers. In that sense, it's a somewhat low-paid job. It feels to me like they're more deser
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I'm not getting any benefits. I was raised and educated elsewhere. I have no access to most social services. I have no kids. I'm here to pay taxes and get the bare minimum back. The services I've been getting were really noth
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There just isn't enough people who are local and want to do this job for this pay. This happens in Germany but also in my home country. In Germany there is a whole industry around recruiting foreign nurses. I work in immigration and a
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The large majority, since the requirements for non-refugees are basically to pay taxes and support themselves. Immigration is my job. If you want to be curious rather than judgemental we can talk about it.
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I'm in the "recent" immigrants group. I qualify for citizenship since a few years, but this Wehrpflicht nonsense is why I haven't sent my application yet. I don't think that the social situation is as bad as you des
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To offer a bit of context, the same government just voted to raise current pensions at the expense of steep taxation hikes for current workers, made massive cuts to social services, and is now discussing military service. This generation is
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I found it quite easy to slowly integrate it into my work. The tools got better and so did the documentation. It also has SEO and possibly LLM benefits, and it makes testing with Playwright much easier.
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From our perspective, it’s good to see the EU protect its citizens from US tech practices.
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Anything I've seen about Ive hints at him being a kind, passionate man. I don't agree with his design choices but that's no excuse to hate him as a person.
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It's getting harder and harder to get eyeballs on text. ChatGPT, AI summaries and social media algorithms all conspire to keep people on their platforms, denying any traffic to external source material.
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I once went to the doctor complaining about spleen pain. The doctor's first question was "where is your spleen?" and it was not where I pointed. The helpful answer is sometimes to ask more questions.
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I have learned a lot from people questioning my motives, and from third-party discussions where someone with the same problem had their motives questioned. It often set me on a much better course. Thorough answers benefit the audience too.
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tl;dr: positive impact Is there anyone having a worse experience working from home? I'm curious to hear some stories.
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Or famous Swedish band ABBA
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I'm trying, but it's so hard! I put my phone in a drawer. Everything's in silent mode. I have a fully disconnected, distraction-free iPad for reading and writing. Work only happens on the computer. There are no emails on th
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I provide guides and tools for people settling in Germany. My work involves putting a lot of new information on the internet. There is no training data for that. A lot of it happens IRL and is captured by infrastructure and connections that
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Morale, mostly. AI summaries have halved the traffic to the website I live from. My income is fine, but working for half the impact, knowing that it might get halved again is depressing. It feels like throwing resources - days of my finite
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Do you know what my industry is? It might be worth showing curiosity before expressing judgement.
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The industry is not really shifting. It's not shifting to anything. It's just that the value is being captured by parasitic companies. They still need people like me to feed them training data while they destroy the economics of p
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My dev friends could find English speaking jobs but everyone else is struggling. Some are moving away, compromising, or nervously watching the end date of their unemployment insurance. The salaries actually went down since last year if I&#x
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I don't know if it's as bad, but it's bad in Canada and Germany too. The whole world is doing pretty bad, it seems.
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Some anecdata from Berlin: - It's now much harder to get a job without speaking German - There is now competition for low-wage service jobs - At times it felt like half of my friends were unemployed - My dev friends have a much harder
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That is a beautiful product. How unfortunate!
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I understand it as the market wanting more content about competing in an AI world
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I made a career out of understanding this. In Germany it’s quite feasible. The only challenge is finding affordable housing, just like elsewhere. The other challenge is the speed of the process, but some cities are getting better, including
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I feel like this person might be just a few bad months ahead of me. I am doing great, but the writing is on the wall for my industry. We should have more posts like this. It should be okay to be worried, to admit that we are having difficul

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