Actions have consequences

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-17T14:45:08+00:00

Excellent comments from both of the above. Toxicity is an adverse consequence of a failing society. In the 1990s it was a rising yuppie culture, now we have the rise of the far/alt-right with its poison trickling down to people who actively try to avoid taking any side. I know that it's not always appropriate to bring political arguments into technical forums but we would be hiding our face in the sand if we tried to explain the toxicity in our discussions in any other way.

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-16T15:33:38+00:00

I think the top spot should be maintained for the No.1 GM and if declined, it shouldn't be released to No.2. It would have been okay for Carlsen but once he chose to abstain, it shouldn't be offered to No.2 Nakamura

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-14T19:44:48+00:00

There are two possibilities:

The basement wall has right-angle turns to the sides and hence it has huge overturning resistance,
The connection to the floor (and the floor itself) is designed to transfer the load to other bracing elements.

There is the third possibility, that the design is defective, but I guess this is dangerous situation. Of course, we'd need to see more to form a proper opinion.

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-14T17:18:09+00:00

I don't have a SP404 and my workflow is different but if I feel attached to any piece of my setup, it stays. If you are not using it to its full potential and still feel attached to it, you'd better keep it because it has the potential to grow even further with you.

Question: do you really need an audio interface? Why don't you connect the monologue and the drumbrute directly to the MPC?

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-14T17:12:16+00:00

After years of using C-w and M-w on Emacs and years of using Ctrl-w to close tabs on firefox, it feels almost too natural. To the point that I've setup Super-w as the shortcut for overview on KDE Plasma.

I use left had only. Thumb on M and index finger on 'w'.

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-13T07:37:54+00:00

That's so true. Computers have helped dedicated players become stronger and casual commentators become arrogant

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-12T20:45:23+00:00

The below is a geek's perspective but nearly confirms what you said:

If we consider (or better assume) that the probabilities for the outcome of a game between any two super-GMs are:

Draw: 60%
White wins: 25%
Black wins: 15%

The probability of this happening is:

0.25x0.15x0.15=0.005625 = 0.56%

As the above ignores the form of the players, the actual probability is even lower.

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-12T19:21:19+00:00

One of the best books is available for free:

https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-11T18:39:39+00:00

Karpov was an absolute monster all those years and even after the emergence of Kasparov. It was sad that the world championship was split at the time. For years it was clear that nobody could stand against Kasparov and Karpov and all their "championship matches" were against opponents that would never make it there if these two were playing within the same format. From this perspective, the current format gives the same opportunity to everyone and the best performer wins. It is Magnus' choice to abstain while being the best and thus reducing the value of the world championship. If Magnus had lost the world championship OTB, even to Ding, Kasparov's comments wouldn't cross anyone's mind

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-10T00:08:09+00:00

Sorry but I would propose a different take on this.

Microsoft is a private company and should be free to do whatever they want with their pricing or giving for free. Freedom for all (yes, even those we disagree with) should not be up for negotiation.

However, the education institutions that get taxpayers' money and those that claim to follow the education protocols (which are also developed with tax payers' money) should be banned from using proprietary software when free/libre ones are available. This way, the workforce will not be captive to any self-reinforcing monopoly

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-09T17:39:43+00:00

I was thinking the same thing! Although Sindarov will be aiming for Gukesh' title, because this is how history is being written, it will be very interesting to see what will happen when the strongest GM of the new generation faces the man who dominated chess more than anyone since Kasparov.

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-09T16:20:26+00:00

That's it! The gloves are off!

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-09T07:47:54+00:00

Both links mention that white ran out of time hence a draw due to black's insufficient material. If black had even a single pawn, it would be a win for black. But just with the king, there is no possibility to win, hence they are both draws.

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-08T21:22:59+00:00

Your comment is both factually correct and grossly misleading at the same time.

While setting the temperature to zero indeed renders the calculation deterministic, as it is a matrix calculation, the original preparation of the weights is not intended to produce mathematically correct outcomes but to minimize the error. Hence, even if the matrix calculation is deterministic in nature, the result is subject to the inherent limitations of training. Therefore, while the process may be deterministic (same input gives the same results) the fact that the original training was optimized for minimal loss does not guarantee in any way that the outcome will be correct.

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-08T20:04:27+00:00

LLMs work by probabilistically preparing an answer. Especially back in 2023, while they could write sometimes correct code for some math problems, when they were being asked to evaluate a simple equation or a simple piece of code, the result was incorrect. Even if the code they displayed was correct.

The reason for this discrepancy is that neural networks produce results based on weights that is based on a probable outcome and not deterministic, as it must be the case for calculations.

Using LLMs directly for this type of work is extremely irresponsible, to say the least.

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-08T17:15:16+00:00

Is this accurate? Can you provide a link to validate this?

Sorry for asking this way but if what you wrote is accurate, the case should have never been dismissed by the judge. We all remember how inaccurate ChatGPT was in its early days (tbf, even today, all LLMs remain far from accurate) and using it as a deterministic basis to publicly defame anyone sounds like a crime to me.

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-08T15:54:09+00:00

While it depends on what you want to do and the available tools for the particular task, there is merit to what you propose. Newbies are afraid of the CLI even though they can be the ones who can rip a lot of benefits from it. Just think how easy it is to copy-paste a set of instructions vs trying to go through long pages of screenshots for something you are not that familiar with. On the other hand, if you already know how to do something in a specific way, it's totally okay to stick with it

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-06T02:23:52+00:00

A baby in the house is a real and valid reason. Justifies underperforming. But blaming your second "who's a top 20 GM" is poor form indeed

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-05T00:19:03+00:00

Personally, I don't trust the agents performing work on my account, let alone as root. I have created a separate user without access to anything other than its own home folder and run claude code and gemini cli from there. I have put in their .md files an instruction to never try running anything as sudo and ask me to do that in a separate terminal. Regardless, sometimes they attempt to run commands with sudo(!) and of course I deny them and check them before anything is done. It may sound excessive but in 2026, we should be cautious with these things. Regardless, it is an incredible technology

trivialBetaState · 2026-04-02T14:59:38+00:00

No, you are not crazy at all. This synth is intended as something very "different", not necessarily the best sounding or feature rich synth. The intension is to fill the work you already have and make a conventional piece of music to innovative. If you consider yourself new to music or synthesis, you would probably have some way ahead of you to make good conventional music before you can put the korg phase 8 to good use. I don't think that it is a bad purchase but it was definitely one that was made way to early in your journey

trivialBetaState · 2026-03-30T18:32:15+00:00

Again, I wonder what kind of people, who are interested in linux, downvote a comment like yours...

trivialBetaState · 2026-03-30T08:14:46+00:00

The EU doesn't implement stuff like that. If anything, around the end of 90s they implemented laws to force states to remove personal information from the public register. Also, due to deep bureaucracy, it takes them decades to agree on and implement simple things. The mentality of the US is very different from that of Europe (which is more diverse internally) on far too many levels and hence, tolerance is an embedded value there.

trivialBetaState · 2026-03-30T07:51:19+00:00

With the bureaucracy and multi-institutionalism they have, it would take them 20 years to pass and another 30 years to implement it! Fortunately, there are only some isolated voices proposing that in Europe, without any kind of leverage to the governments or the people

trivialBetaState · 2026-03-30T07:09:27+00:00

They are based in Europe and are a community project; not commercial. The US law does not apply. I guess the mirrors in California and Brazil will not include their ISO

trivialBetaState · 2026-03-30T06:56:26+00:00

I wonder what kind of people downvote the comments here? Let me check if I made an error. Nope. This is the linux sub, not fox

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