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Thanks for the TIL, always just assumed it was some digital artifact

By what measure? I wonder how much of design capability improvements is related to our collective ability to recognize AI design tropes.

If the task is so simple why use a model like Fable 5? Wrong tool for the job?

Submitted some pretty harsh feedback about this back in Jan after my old school technical father in law sent me a few AI generated “news” videos in a row about Trump and Venezuela.…

The Prospect Park S is such a weird train. I love it.

Reminds me of Gall’s Law from his book Systemantics. A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed fro…

Q: Who else had their first exposure to programming on a Ti-83/4 calculator?

Same for me, it was also my first time ever seeing code, and I still remember it well. While getting ready for swim practice in a locker room, my friend challenged me to beat his s…

Fun fact: Axolotl have the largest animal genome ever sequenced with ~32b base pairs, 10x more than humans.

Axolotls have also been used for over 200 years for medical research related to regenerative biology. They’re unique among vertebrates in that they can regenerate nearly every part…

Agreed. I just traveled to Peru for the first time a few months ago and visited Cusco for 7 days. For me, it was not enough, since all I wanted to do was go back immediately upon l…

Was wondering the same thing. Couldn't they just load https://web.archive.org/save/{site_url} once a month in their Github action instead of managing the storage of these images?

Newton spent the majority of his life trying to answer this question. It'd be more interesting if the question asked “Will Newton’s prediction that the Second Coming won’t happen b…

OP's been preparing for this moment: https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2024-12-04-hugs-of-death...

Looks like the site's down. https://archive.is/kGmn6

Extremely slow times - from development to production, backend to frontend. Depending on how bad things are, you might catch the microservice guys complaining over microseconds fro…

Seems like a precedent for the Conch Republic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch_Republic

A related article from NASA Earth Observatory has a slider to compare satellite images of the glacier. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152893/humboldt-gla...

This is why we need more incremental rendering[1] (or "streaming"). This pattern become somewhat of a lost art in the era of SPAs — it's been possible since HTTP/1.1 via chunked tr…

The Sphinx wasn't built with stone from a quarry, it was carved from the bedrock. It has since been restored a number of times, one of which added layers of limestone block which i…

At Wadi al-Jarf[1], one of the oldest harbors in the world (~2600 BCE), they discovered numerous stone anchors, a stone jetty, and storage galleries carved into limestone that cont…