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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI’s new AI image generator pushes the limits in detail and prompt fidelity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While there is some truth in this, humans and AI do not make the same type of mistakes with hands.

  Humans will rebuild the topological structure of the hand: 5 fingers protruding from a based and get the proportions wrong.

  AI will rebuild the image of a hand from the 2d appearance of a hand: a variable number of flesh colored, parallel stripes, and improvise from that.

  While both can get it wrong, the errors are not similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death by a thousand microservices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Python is actually a good example of this: see the mess that the transition from 2.6 to 3 generated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greener Alternative To Lithium-ion Battery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. We also have deductive capabilities (aka "system 2") that enable us to ensure some level of proof over our statements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It says it has a "high res monitor". For having learned to program graphics on this machine, we had to count the pixels to be able to fit our drawings in the screen: 512x342, that's not a lot of screen real estate. The 640x480 PC screen was a luxury.