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Terra is far from awful. I've not used Luna enough to judge whether it's significantly better than Luna, but at least via GitHub Copilot, Terra is leaps ahead of Sonnet 5.
At least Anandtech just shut down rather than turning into a zombie tech blog.
According to the article, because components are really expensive right now, particularly RAM and storage.
Re:GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:31PM (#47926936)
But the prices haven't been going up by multiples of 6 for the past few years. Things are actually changing now. I don't think it's over, but in the short term, it's going to be considerably more expensive.
Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:25PM (#35460569)
I don't think that's true. Vista was so hated, that 7 was pretty much universally heralded as a big improvement, even if half of that was the ecosystem getting used to the new driver model introduced by Vista.

And as others have observed, 2000 was an immediate hit with everyone who tried it.

It's very cloudy for me in NW England.
Re:A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:09PM (#24265543)
Not constructive.
Santa Claus is an old man with a beard that uses magical reindeer to deliver presents to every child on Christmas Eve.

Definitely a lie. Saying he's not is another lie, even if you're lying to yourself.

Re:I tried to cancel Virgin Media broadband contract on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:28PM (#23588337)
I rang up several years ago to try to get a discount for reasons I can't remember. I ended up being upsold and today I'm spending far more money than I should, but my Internet is so, so fast. And my IP address, whilst not "static", changes about once every three years. Not something you'd run a website on, but very convenient as a developer when being restricted by IP range.

I've heard the customer service is bad, but to be honest, I never need it speak to them. On the whole, a happy customer over the last 18 years (whoever they were when I signed up in 2002- NTL? Cable& Wireless?)

Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:08AM (#22275180)
This tool is wonderful - mindbogglingly fast. I can't believe how long it has been around, without equivalent performance or consistency baked into Windows. I think I first used this before Vista came out - has it really been that long?
Re:Show HN: Everlook – Find and list remote job opportunities on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @03:57AM (#22233606)
I searched for c# contract

None of the jobs were c#. As far as I could tell, none of them were contracts either.

Re:Iodine: A full superset of Java with enhancements on Saturday September 02, 2017 @03:18PM (#15157726)
The difference is that it's a superset, whereas Kotlin is a different language with Java interop, that's designed to be familiar to Java programmers.

To use a JavaScript analogy, Kotlin is CoffeScript, and Iodine is Typescript.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2017) on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:55PM (#15150852)
SEEKING WORK Manchester (UK)/Remote

C#, MVC, SQL Server, Winforms, WPF, Xamarin.

15 years experience with the .net stack, building relevant solutions for clients. Also offering mentoring for junior team members on clean coding.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-quinn-consultant/ http://quinnconsulting.co.uk