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nelox··on Claude Duet
Yeah, it took them how long to add signin via Apple?
nelox··on Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market
Currency-issuing governments don't strictly need bonds to fund spending, but they issue them for monetary control, financial stability, and credibility.
nelox··on Zig v0.17.0
Nobody refuses penicillin because it came from mold in a dish. If an AI found a cure for a disease, people would ask one question: does it work?

Bug fixes should get the same treatment. A patch is either correct or it isn't. Projects that ban AI-written fixes outright are asking "who wrote this?" instead of "is this right?", and users live with the bug in the meantime.

I get why maintainers are fed up. Review time is scarce, and they're drowning in plausible-looking garbage. But that's a problem with low-quality submissions, not with AI as such. Require tests, require a human who vouches for the patch and will answer for it, and ban repeat offenders. Then hold every patch to that same bar, whoever or whatever wrote it.

nelox··on Can gzip be a language model?
Only if it can run DOOM.
nelox··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
Why not a free trade agreement?
nelox··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
I would be surprised if it wasn’t by Russia. Russian infrastructure is being systematically destroyed by Ukraine with funding, training, intelligence and materiel from Europe. This is an attempt to discourage European support by disrupting Europeans.
nelox··on People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination
What does that mean? You can recite a description you’ve read or heard, but what about looking at a photo and describing it?
nelox··on The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
Now Africa looks even more enticing
nelox··on Splash-free urinals for global sustainability and accessibility
It’s not much help if the aim is off
nelox··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
It may be gibberish to the casual observer, but a perfectly understandable language designed to appear as gibberish to intentionally obfuscate its true meaning.
nelox··on 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online
'Natural' is either the bees knee’s, or a death trap. Take your pick.

edit:typo

nelox··on Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
Thanks for the Vertigo Rollercoaster
nelox··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Seriously? You should only ever need to walk to the village market to buy anything, and walk back with your own bag.
nelox··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Indeed. The rising flood of people feeling East for West Berlin was the very reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall.
nelox··on Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
Ah yes, I’m not young enough to know everything.
nelox··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
General Counsel has entered the chat
nelox··on Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
If you use macOS, take a look at Agent Safehouse: https://agent-safehouse.dev

> macOS-native sandboxing for local agents. Move fast, break nothing.

nelox··on How the words we teach English language learners changed
Its um like you know whatever
nelox··on The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol)
"First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price" - S.R. Hadden
nelox··on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)
Once seen, it cannot be unseen. Thanks.
nelox··on ‘Asia's cleanest village’ bans tourists on Sundays
Ah the age old story of something being loved to death.
nelox··on Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids
Turns out glass has been known to be a fluid and to fracture for quite some time.

[edit: but glass is not a simple fluid.]

nelox··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
The correct term is entitled, as it applies equally whether they think they are smarter or not.
nelox··on The Clouds of Hiroshima
Horrific, yes. However, estimates for the total number of people killed by Imperial Japan during World War II (primarily 1937–1945) range from roughly 20 to 30 million or higher across the Asia-Pacific theater, and they refused unconditional surrender until 2 atomic bombs stopped them killing who knows how many more.
nelox··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
No stairs, no go.
nelox··on How do wombats poop cubes?
It’s hip to be square
nelox··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
> We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2072106151890809341?s=46

nelox··on DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
Doing work ≠ publishing work
nelox··on 22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'
The podcast is in French, but you can hear the first public performance of the works here:

> Discovery of an unpublished manuscript by Mozart at the BnF: behind the scenes of an extraordinary operation

https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/l-invite-e...

nelox··on Steam Machine launches today
Steam Engine, surely?
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