Readit Newsollieglass commented on Gitlab’s AI-assisted code suggestions about.gitlab.com/solution... · Posted by u/sh_tomer
Okay, but how much are they charging?
It's getting really annoying how many sites force you into a trial just to find out how much it'll cost when it ends.
EDIT: Is this even positioned to compete with Copilot? What editors are there plugins for? There is surprisingly little information on the site.
Seems to be $99 per month.
Signing up for the free trial funnels me to the trial of Gitlab Ultimate. So assuming that you need an Ultimate subscription to use it after the trial, that's the price. Pricing is here https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/
In contrast, Copilot is $10 per month https://github.com/features/copilot#pricing
ollieglass commented on Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16 coutts.com/coutts-digital... · Posted by u/pbowyer
What I find really amazing is that we have here an incredibly elite service that the vast majority of people will never be able to afford, and yet its elite clients are dependent on essentially the same mobile devices that everyone else is. You can spend ~$2k on a phone, and it will be the best phone you can buy. There's no $20k phone that will be any better.
It's like flying in first class and then having to queue up in the same immigration line as everybody else - except in that scenario you can pay your way into a priority lane.
True, ~$2k is still a lot for a phone, but it's within reach of so many more people than the gatekept world of private banking and jets.
This is not a comment about wealth disparity - it's about goods which seem to resist the impact of wealth disparity; where there is a relatively low upper bound on how good of a thing you can buy.
Reminds me of this Andy Warhol quote:
"What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good"
Side gigs don't really earn much. If you've got a friend that you've worked with before and they have a startup or something, ask for some peanuts amount of equity as an hands on advisor. It'll do more for your CV than 20 hour side gigs glueing some libraries together.
Or pick a well known library / framework and contribute. Or rescue a "looking for [co-]maintainer" library out there.
I am curious about the impact of being an advisor on a CV.
Could you share what it's done for you?
ollieglass commented on The problem with Bitcoin miners paulbutler.org/2022/the-p... · Posted by u/paulgb
It blows my mind how well-known all the problems there are with crypto and yet it's become so huge while solving virtually no problem other than avoiding laws about the movement of money and capital.
The Bitcoin network in particular uses more electricty than Argentina. Defenders will point out that it's majority renewable. That's intellectually dishonest because Bitcoin is simply chasing cheap power and hydro power is among the cheapest. Bitcoin miners will happily use coal if it's sufficiently cheap. Also, use of certain renewables comes at the expense of other people. In the Hudson Valley, miners have raised the electricty prices for other residents in those towns.
Bitcoins transactions consume an enormous amount of electricity.
Defenders will also claim we'll move to Proof of Stake ("PoS") over Proof of Waste but this too is a myth. For one, Bitcoin's massive computational and electricity waste is key to defending the network. I don't know what happens when we run out of coins to mine. Also, if it's as simple as that, why haven't we simply moved to PoS for everything?
PoS ultimately is a rich-gets-richer scenario is why. It's really no different to the Luna anchor stakers getting 20% returns at the expense of everyone else who comes along later.
And for all of this waste we get what? Transactions that can only be guaranteed if they're entirely contained within the network because as soon as you want to include something outside of that (eg converting crypto to or from cash) you've just added the same trust issue that is intrinsic to every traditional financial transaction.
And what fuels this continued mass delusion is the fabric of American beliefs that every American is just a temporarily embarassed millionaire [1].
[1]; https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/328134-john-steinbeck-once-...
> solving virtually no problem other than avoiding laws about the movement of money and capital
This is a tremendously valuable problem to solve for some.
ollieglass commented on Ask HN: Are there any good poverty simulator games? · Posted by u/green-eclipse
The game "I Get This Call Every Day" conveys some of the experience of working a low end job in a customer service call centre https://davidsgallant.itch.io/i-get-this-call-every-day
Is there a way to run this setup from a battery or would it need a power socket? Could you recommend any portable 4k screens?