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cantaloupe··on Apple Music 404 Not Found
Well now I’d love to know the unique tracks for each country!
cantaloupe··on Deno Is Joining Cloudflare
the CF blog post suggests that is what the Deno team will be working on: combining workerd and celld for true self hostable workers/DOs
cantaloupe··on GPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in six hours
The original blog post of the person who orchestrated the attempt:

https://carter.church/writeups/the-letter-to-marmont/

cantaloupe··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
I didn’t realize that GPT-5.6 is basically dominating the cost/intelligence Pareto frontier right now, at least for this set of benchmarks. Otherwise it’s only Fable on the very high end and DeepSeek on the very low end. This Kimi model gets close, though.
cantaloupe··on Secure private networking for users, nodes, agents, Workers – Cloudflare Mesh
Looks a lot like Tailscale.
cantaloupe··on Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs
Operational Transformation
cantaloupe··on High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
The academic consensus is that there is a housing shortage, not a surplus. Perhaps there is a local surplus in undesirable areas, but that isn’t true in cities or nationally.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/make-it-count-measuring-o...

cantaloupe··on Starship was doomed from the beginning
Some interesting points, but it’s hard to get past the over the top ad hominem against Musk and generally emotionally charged feeling of the article.
cantaloupe··on When random people give money to random other people (2017)
Only if no interest is accrued on assets. When interest is introduced, there is no longer shuffling.
cantaloupe··on When random people give money to random other people (2017)
This more detailed simulation shows the impact of UBI, interest, etc. Unsurprisingly it is much more balanced with UBI and even more extremely skewed with interest accruing. https://joshworth.com/jpw/does-this-simulation-explain-why-l...
cantaloupe··on When random people give money to random other people (2017)
This is only when no other effects/processes are accounted for. If every participant keeps their current funds in an account with the same interest rate, then the distribution permanently skews so that there is no longer bobbing. The rich stay rich. See this more detailed simulation linked in another comment: https://joshworth.com/jpw/does-this-simulation-explain-why-l...
cantaloupe··on Show HN: Cleverb.ee – open-source agent that writes a cited research report
I browsed the GitHub and website for a bit, but didn’t see any examples! It would be useful to share the output for a common question that can be substantiated with reliable sources, like “Is coffee good for me?”. Even better if you can show a comparison to other deep research tools. From the copy it seems like Cleverbee could pull from more diverse sources (e.g. YouTube) and fewer unreliable sources (e.g. product blogs). Show that off!
cantaloupe··on Sigbovik Conference Proceedings 2025 [pdf]
His paper is #55, “Some upsetting things about shapes”, found on page 342. Its header and contents are not searchable, presumably due to his use of his bespoke typesetting program from a previous SIGBOVIK year. It’s a great read!
cantaloupe··on European word translator: an interactive map
German’s Schildkröte, “shield-toad”, is quite similar.
cantaloupe··on Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut
https://archive.is/jigpT
cantaloupe··on Appreciation of the mark-all-as-read button
Shake for an undo prompt or three finger tap for a menu that includes undo/redo. Both apply throughout iOS.
cantaloupe··on NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
NPR is not a monolithic media organization. In my experience, local NPR stations are one of the best sources of interesting and relevant local news. In contrast, most local TV/Radio news is borderline a crime blotter ginned up to keep people outraged.

Regarding the national NPR newsroom, I think this story will provoke positive change, as indicated in the article. There is no media which every person would consider unbiased, and very few media organizations take action to even attempt to reign in biases. The fact that editors will start reviewing coverage more closely to remove tilt sets a higher bar than all but a few news organizations.

I chuckle thinking about a reporter stepping out of another random news room in the country and spreading outrage that the coverage has a bias. The response would generally be: “Yes, duh.”

cantaloupe··on A Year Later, Lessons from Silicon Valley Bank's Epic Collapse
https://archive.is/20240310162206/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
cantaloupe··on Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
Regarding your first point… 15 year olds learn the basics of driving in a day. Generally speaking, it’s not that difficult. A scenario where humans forget entirely how to drive and are unable to learn again is incredibly far fetched.
cantaloupe··on I Can Hear You Fine. Is It Rude That I'm Still Wearing AirPods?
You can tune the sound to accommodate your specific hearing loss with an audiogram! It’s very quick: https://kottke.org/23/04/customize-your-airpods-pro-for-even...
cantaloupe··on 2023 Hugo Awards
I haven’t read The Children of Time, but I would highly recommend Tchaikovsky’s Final Architecture trilogy. It’s been my favorite series I’ve read in a few years.
cantaloupe··on quic.video - Live Media over QUIC
Perhaps unsurprisingly seems like Mobile Safari doesn’t support WebTransport (“Variable WebTransport not found”), but website looks great!
cantaloupe··on Tesla earns $690M less than expected in third quarter
I’m far from a financial analyst myself, but I’m pretty sure the people who come up with the “expected” numbers are financial analysts who would be well aware of Tesla’s public pricing changes. So a better way of looking at is that people with a vested interest in correctly estimating earnings based on all available knowledge were surprised to the downside.
cantaloupe··on The Average New EV Costs $14,000 Less Than It Did a Year Ago: KBB
That’s not really supported by evidence. Among other points against, tire dust scales linearly with weight and EVs are only about 20% heavier then comparable ICEs (e.g. model 3 vs Camry). That’s not even accounting for regenerative braking.

https://dynomight.net/tires/

cantaloupe··on AMD may get across the CUDA moat
Do you see that as an inevitability or an impossibility?
cantaloupe··on Tesla Bot Update – Sort and Stretch [video]
I think .25x is a bit slow, as .5x replay also looks reasonable, but you are right there is something like a 2.5–3.5x speed up. Makes the robot’s smooth motion much less impressive.
cantaloupe··on Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing
Congrats to Evan on the milestone! I enjoy reading the Vale articles even though I have no programming language design or compilers experience.
cantaloupe··on Honda Monkey Breaks World Record Covering 4,183 Km on Single Tank
Is this satire?

- dubious IQ (dIQ) measuring

- incorrect accusation of “putting them down” immediately following an ad hominem attack

- unspecific “insight” that EVs sacrifice practical things to get distance, when the parent and OP were both basically saying the opposite: EVs sacrifice distance for practicality

cantaloupe··on Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)
Bummer! Didn’t realize the graph was not for not IPv4 and IPv6. Have you done anything fun with the AS or had an opportunity to say “Luckily, I do have an AS!” in a time of need?
cantaloupe··on Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)
The article mentions that the Cisco router used is limited to a million addresses, which would be exceeded in “2-3 years.” Looks like the author got at least double the life out of the router, because the internet is just approaching one million BGP entries now!

https://bgp.potaroo.net/bgprpts/rva-index.html

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