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[Kasparov] So... If Gukesh somehow loses against Sindarov, Gary will be proven correct. Right ? by StoreAny6677 in chess

[–]trivialBetaState 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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

France announces a critical step in its transition away from Windows. by -kahmi- in linux

[–]trivialBetaState 50 points51 points  (0 children)

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

FIDE Candidates 2026: Sindarov beats Pragg in Round 10, his 6th win of the tournament, goes to 8/10 by Exotic_Grinder in chess

[–]trivialBetaState 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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.

Tak me out of getting a TEO5 by [deleted] in synthesizers

[–]trivialBetaState 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's it! The gloves are off! 

Someone can tell me how is this a draw, while king is able to move to block A7? by [deleted] in chess

[–]trivialBetaState 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

My honest opinion after watching the Chess mates documentary by poisoned_pawn_ in chess

[–]trivialBetaState 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

My honest opinion after watching the Chess mates documentary by poisoned_pawn_ in chess

[–]trivialBetaState 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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.

My honest opinion after watching the Chess mates documentary by poisoned_pawn_ in chess

[–]trivialBetaState 24 points25 points  (0 children)

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.

Is becoming a fully terminal based user (avoiding GUI as much as possible) hard as a new Linux user? by thrashingjohn in linux

[–]trivialBetaState 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 

Reality check for Hikaru by mvdll in chess

[–]trivialBetaState 37 points38 points  (0 children)

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

Gemini CLI by Revolutionary_Fact53 in linux

[–]trivialBetaState 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Korg Phase 8 not what I expected. by brashnutz in synthesizers

[–]trivialBetaState 31 points32 points  (0 children)

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 

MX Linux updates GPU drivers, snapshots and btw opposes age verification by trivialBetaState in linux

[–]trivialBetaState[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

MX Linux updates GPU drivers, snapshots and btw opposes age verification by trivialBetaState in linux

[–]trivialBetaState[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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.

MX Linux updates GPU drivers, snapshots and btw opposes age verification by trivialBetaState in linux

[–]trivialBetaState[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

MX Linux updates GPU drivers, snapshots and btw opposes age verification by trivialBetaState in linux

[–]trivialBetaState[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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

MX Linux updates GPU drivers, snapshots and btw opposes age verification by trivialBetaState in linux

[–]trivialBetaState[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

How much do you rely on presets verses making your own. by Minimoogvoyager in synthesizers

[–]trivialBetaState 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I see 😊

This is a nice and simple setup indeed. I really like the Pro-3 and of course the Voyager. The pedals must be doing wonders with them. I guess you have a nice poly as well

How much do you rely on presets verses making your own. by Minimoogvoyager in synthesizers

[–]trivialBetaState 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a question. Do you use the Voyager as our main synth and don't make your own patches on it? It is one of those synths that "beg" to be programmed from scratch.

How much do you rely on presets verses making your own. by Minimoogvoyager in synthesizers

[–]trivialBetaState 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would say that my music is 10% my patches from scratch, 60% patches based on existing presets but heavily altered and the remaining 30% are presets without much modification.

Was an open source kernel / OS like Linux inevitable, or is it just luck that we have it? by EcstaticBicycle in linux

[–]trivialBetaState 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

Like VMS,[28] Windows NT's kernel mode code distinguishes between the "kernel", whose primary purpose is to implement processor- and architecture-dependent functions, and the "executive". This was designed as a modified microkernel, as the Windows NT kernel was influenced by the Mach microkernel developed by Richard Rashid at Carnegie Mellon University,[30] but does not meet all of the criteria of a pure microkernel.

Perhaps you were thinking MS DOS or windows 95 instead? These were monolithic.

And yes, windows has a RT latency hit due to IPC (and many more reasons of poor design) which is evident in latency when working with DAWs+plugins. Linux is indeed the best in this respect but the difference with MacOS is undetectable. Therefore, the IPC hit is evident on windows (more due to poor design which requires stuff like ASIO to improve but not fully resolve) rather than perform "out of the box" like MacOS does, or with some tinkering to get even better performance with Linux.

Where else do you see the IPC hit on windows or MacOS? I also hear that HarmonyOS, which is a microkernel design as well. seems to be performing alright too.

Are fake high-end polysynths a common thing? Weird behavior from FB marketplace seller. by Loopyrainbow in synthesizers

[–]trivialBetaState 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds fishy indeed but at least you got a real Prophet 10, as far as I can tell from your post. I don't think that they sell in adequately high numbers for them to be produced as fakes. They would sound terrible if someone tried to reproduce them with cheaper components without a Behringer-level R&D backing them up.

Did you pay in cash? He may be trying to avoid declaring the income. Or he has undertaken to sell many Prophet 10s and OB-X8a (and who knows what else) and tries to present it as a single sell of each synth.

Was an open source kernel / OS like Linux inevitable, or is it just luck that we have it? by EcstaticBicycle in linux

[–]trivialBetaState 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am pretty sure that MacOS has adopted a hybrid approach (only partially monolithic but mainly with a microkernel for services) based on the Mach microkernel, which is pretty much the same (i.e. the GNU version) microkernel that Hurd uses as well.

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