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that's a false equivalence. no business is choosing to adopt personal cheques and the number of places that still accept them drops every years. beside the clearing time isn't really the issue. credit and debit card payments typically take a business day to clear, which isn't that different from cheques. the main appeal to credit/debit, outside if the UX, is that they have built-in NSF checks and visa/mc takes on a lot of the risk involved.

but let's compare cheques anyway. consider what it takes to send an etransfer to a new recipient. you open your phone, then your banking app, then you enter a phone number or email address and set a password for it, then you can initiate a payment, type in the amount, double check it, hit send. THEN the seconds/minutes delay kicks in.

if you already have the business saved in your address book then it might be comparable with writing out a cheque, but I'd be willing to bet in the average case, etransfer is going to be a slower and more error prone.

Interactive etransfers are far from instant. My last company supported etransfer payments. On a good day they would take ~10s to process, 30s was decent, and single digit minutes were normal. Legitimate payments that got flagged by Interac's fraud detection rules were often subject to delays measured in hours, sometimes days.

Good enough for consumer to consumer use and some online use cases, but definitely not good enough for retail.

> Moving from program approval to development testing in just 11 months, Northstar demonstrates Blue Origin’s ability to rapidly iterate and deliver advanced propulsion systems.

that doesn't demonstrate their ability to deliver.

BE-4 went into development testing in 2014 and said it would be ready for flight in 2017. In reality, 2017 saw the first test fire, and it was 2019 before the first full thrust test fire happened. In the end BE-4 didn't fly until 2024.

in fairness, BE-4 took 3 years to go from approval to development testing, so 11 months is impressive.

maybe this means they sorted out some of the organizational/cultural issues bogging them down?

what was Arc's business model even?

this is my main blocker to Jellyfin too. if it were just me, no problem. but my (divorced, over 60y/o) parents and my sister's family use my plex too. each of them has some mix of LG, Samsung, Roku, Android, and Apple devices. they all live half way across the country.

every time i've checked in with Jellyfin, the ecosystem has been way too fragmented to consider migrating.

whatever polls well over the next few months probably

Carney and his diplomats have been having high-level talks along these lines with a bunch of EU member states for the last few months at least. That's atypical even. WSJ quoted French diplomats as essentially saying, "this is moving very quickly all of a sudden".

Carney and von der Leyen haven't really talked about what this would mean but it seems safe to assume that they (plus leaders of the major EU member states) have been talking about it, at least in broad strokes.

more than a half dozen Canadians have already competed in Eurovision, including one winner (Céline Dion). has Australia ever won?

stop spamming.

I'd get a foldable if the "exterior" screen was eink (and it didn't cost $1500+)

I went back to school recently to get a degree after 20yrs in the industry. It's hard to overstate how helpful it is to able to open ChatGPT and ask "ok but why?" ad infinitum like children do.

it's a leak, not an official release. axios published the letter they obtained: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/stripe-payments-openrouter-...

haven't compared the one here to that, but I'm guessing they're identical.

"the perfect slice, every time" is a solved problem: https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y?si=xXZJalyPrQggC1xo

butter application is still unsolved AFAIK, though I'm sure there's a robotics company out there hard at work on it.

it's from the mistborn series by brandon sanderson. fun books. would make a great big budget TV series someday

I've had nothing but trouble with Qwen on opencode. GLM too. I know a few people who use them on Ollama could without issue though, so I don't think it's a model issue.

one thing I enjoyed about The Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky: the spiders learned to build "computers" out of ant colonies by hijacking the ants ability to generate and respond to chemical stimuli.

not that it makes me believe in the silurian hypothesis, but i'm always reminded of that whenever i start to think "well it couldn't possibly be done any other way".

I'm not a lawyer, so grain of salt, but I'd imagine the courts would still view those purchases to have been made by Apple since they would be for the benefit of Apple, not the hypothetical Apple Europe.

think of it this way: a US company is caught doing business with a company wholly owned by a sanctioned individual. say the us company argued "we weren't doing business with Pavel Sanctionovich, we were doing business with Pavel S. Inc., a UK company that just happens to be owned by Pavel.", would the courts accept that?

neat idea but the pay-to-win aspect kind of kills any pretense of this being about the prompt.

it's pretty much guaranteed that the winner will be someone using fable or sol and the budget to let it churn for hours on end.

looks like an interesting paper and the abstract seems to confirm my theory about latency spikes and packet loss. i'll have to give it a thorough read tonight. thanks!

well it took 10s of second to load very little.

tapping on the muesli vs corn flakes comparison gave me no visual feedback to indicate it was ever going to do anything.

then it died.

when it came back I tried tapping on Visual Studio Code, expecting a page to come up but nothing happened. after enough time to flip back to hn and tap that sentence out (on my phone) and there was a page load happening. another 5s after that, a page with a lot of things on it but very little content appeared.

so a couple thoughts:

if you're going to manage page loads and nav with javascript, visual feedback is not optional. (better yet, don't do it with js at all. you don't have to go full SSR, just let your web server handle more of the effort)

every example you have there is going to boil down to personal preference or context dependence. like corn flakes vs museli, no one is going to make buying decisions based on that. there is no "better" only in that comparison, only "better for my situation". same goes for local businesses, IDEs, and whatever else. these scores don't tell me if it will work for me, only that it's popular. this is why the best review sites these days compare and present the results as "if you prefer X, then consider A. if you're on a budget but want Y, then B is a good choice." people want to know what's best for them. if you've got the data then frame a new users experience around "what are you looking for and what do you care about" rather than this zillionth hot-or-not-with-a-twist clone.

> Drop a screen-recording of varela --web here — the world with avatars fanning out is the demo that sells it. git add docs/demo.gif.

you should take your llm's advice on this one

the `im` rust crate provides immutable data structures, one of them being an RRB-based Vec. don't remember what the stdlib Vec uses.

biggest issue I've had with flash is that it seems to hit a sort of "dumb o'clock" wall. right around the time Beijing would be going to work, response quality takes a dump on instruction-heavy tasks when context grows beyond ~120k tokens.

responses are still usable, no hallucinations or anything, but it's worth keeping in mind if you rely on detailed instructions or large context windows.

have you tried their flash model? pro was too slow for me too but I've found flash to be more than capable and it's faster than Gpt-5.5 at medium.

I think that's delta-v.

hence "bingo"

same here. gpt-5.x medium was my default for coding and v4 flash (max) has completely replaced it. it's the first open source model that made me feel like I could just let rip and not worry any more than Claude or GPT.

When planning small-to-medium sized changes, I found that it was a little bit faster than GPT-5.5 (high) and produced equivalent results. on large changes its results were fine but GPT's were more thoroughly thought through. DS v4 beats the absolute pants off GPT when it comes tone and style though.

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