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stuartqon Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

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.

stuartqon Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

At least Anandtech just shut down rather than turning into a zombie tech blog.

stuartqon Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

According to the article, because components are really expensive right now, particularly RAM and storage.

stuartqon GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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.

stuartqon My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)

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.

stuartqon Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow

It's very cloudy for me in NW England.

stuartqon Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow

Yes

stuartqon A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React

Not constructive.

stuartqon Pathological Lying: Theoretical and Empirical Support for a Diagnostic Entity

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.

stuartqon I tried to cancel Virgin Media broadband contract

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?)

stuartqon Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure

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?

stuartqon Show HN: Everlook – Find and list remote job opportunities

I searched for c# contract

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

stuartqon Iodine: A full superset of Java with enhancements

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.

stuartqon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2017)

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