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i do find it deeply funny that a polemic against peer review has an AI generated header image with easily identifiable problems (notebook contents upside down, one child is about to cut her hand with scissors, the other is building a geometrically impossible "lego" structure). if only it had been reviewed by someone else before publishing!

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how is the lego structure impossible? it is unstable because it's made only of 1-stud bricks. and there are some non existent multi colored bricks in use, but those could theoretically be produced. also while the wheels are not connected, you could stack pricks on top. so it's improbable, but not impossible.

just drink a cup of NO and you'll be fine.

Look at the base of the structure on the right side, and you'll see that in the same plane there are the bumps present and bumps hidden by the same flat plane in a way they shouldn't be. then the left side, the bump visibility doesn't make lego sense

(i agree that maybe OP pointing that out is nitpicking, but to steelman the case, such inaccuracies are what code review would find and are the subtle bugs that might pass a code review and break prod)

you mean the white bump on top of the purple brick that should not be there? well, i saw that as a marking on the brick because if it was a bump it would be purple. and on the left side whether that looks right or not depends on the angle.

(we are nitpicking the nitpicking, it's nits all the way down. my last line in the previous comment was also based on the image. to shatter your steelman, picking on the illustration of the article that is just there to add some color is at best like a code review complaining about style or indenting. with endless bikeshedding opportunities, not something a code review should be focusing on. if the picture were of central importance then that would be different. btw, i am not complaining, i am having good natured fun here)

I genuinely enjoyed the game of "where's waldo" that

> easily identifiable problems

sent me down. as soon as I parsed that line I stopped reading, and I tabbed back over to spot them

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