tatterdemalion
@tatterdemalion@programming.dev
Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, amateur historian, stoic, democratic socialist
- Comment on Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - An benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI scores 0.26%. 1 week ago:
Wdym? It’s existed for at least a decade. Plenty of papers about it. It mastered Atari and Mario. It became the best Go player.
- Comment on Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - An benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI scores 0.26%. 1 week ago:
LLMs might suck at this game but I’m pretty sure Deepmind’s deep reinforcement learning AI could solve these easily.
- Comment on Our Commitment to Windows Quality 2 weeks ago:
This list of bullshit features does zilch to address users complaints about software quality. They are truly clueless.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 weeks ago:
Yes absolutely. Also not a historian, but AIUI that’s probably the largest factor in the overall boom for the US economy at the time.
I didn’t mean to claim that the US was ever a peaceful nation. The best I could say is that the US sat out from the world wars until they had both (1) a way to sell war to the public and (2) a clear financial interest. Post-WWII, every US war has been a bullshit war.
I also don’t mean to sound positive about capitalism. My only real point was that for a brief period, (white) workers actually had an OK social contract with the ruling class. It didn’t last long at all in the grand scheme, and was probably a fluke, not real evidence that capitalism works.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 weeks ago:
That’s not entirely true. We had a brief period after WWII until the 70s when the middle class actually existed, the rich were taxed at 91%, and unions had leverage. This has eroded quickly since the dawn of neoliberalism.
- Comment on The 49MB Web Page 3 weeks ago:
I don’t understand how this serves the purpose of ad blocking.
- Comment on fuck it, just paste your clipboard in the comments 3 weeks ago:
IIFE
- Comment on The 49MB Web Page 3 weeks ago:
This is basically the definition of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
- Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 3 weeks ago:
I can’t tell if the meme is saying they are ugly on the outside or on the inside (for ogling Trump).
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 3 weeks ago:
War powers resolution is a defensive exception to the rule:
The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 3 weeks ago:
Right just like Trump can’t declare war.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think Trump could end his presidency faster than by invoking a draft.
- Comment on Classics 5 weeks ago:
Your momma’s so fat, she got shot with a blow dart when the hippos escaped from the zoo.
- Comment on You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised 1 month ago:
Or if you have like $5/mo to spend on a VPS, self-host vaultwarden. It’s compatible with the bitwarden apps and browser plugins.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 1 month ago:
This is not a shitpost, this a absolute gold.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 month ago:
I think they meant you could wipe with dd and then they are recyclable.
- Comment on Forget your astral sign, which Muppet do you want to be? 1 month ago:
MEEOOOWW. MEEEEOOOOOWW.
…mm mm. Nope nope nope.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 2 months ago:
ChatGPT really can’t, even when asked specifically to align them.
- Comment on Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever 2 months ago:
Yeah so at worst you could get sued by some random reddit users that don’t want their post history hosted on your site.
Given how little traction artists and authors have had with suing AI companies for blatant copyright infringement, I kinda doubt it would go anywhere.
- Comment on My tender eyes and ears 2 months ago:
All I know is YouTube has more advanced ad delivery methods than DNS blocklists can filter, so you need client-level blocking. This only works if you use browser plugins or 3rd party client apps. YouTube’s first party app will always have ads.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, this is just my understanding.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 3 months ago:
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 3 months ago:
The new DK looked really fun to me, is it not?
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 3 months ago:
Depends on if I had sex or not. I’m not putting them back on after, but I also don’t really see the need to take them off just to go to sleep.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 3 months ago:
Maybe a dumb question: What exactly could go wrong? Has the MPAA done anything to stifle Kodi?
- Comment on Which SBC for TV streaming? 4 months ago:
Less than $100 is tricky, but I’ve been meeting all your criteria with a Beelink EQ14
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 4 months ago:
an entire data center
What are you on about?
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 4 months ago:
Thanks, I just rewatched that movie because of your comment.
- Comment on When you ask a question online and a person answer you instead of telling you to Fuck yourself or Google it 4 months ago:
Go fuck yourself
- Comment on What did I forget? 4 months ago:
I’m not autistic but I like most of these things.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 4 months ago:
Here’s some that’s significantly cheaper than the graph would suggest: www.amazon.com/…/B0BSB94VC2
Not that it’s a good price in general or anything, but if you absolutely must buy now…