TheFogan

I mean, it's a very large dependency on which journals, how well cited they are etc...

I mean yes there's absolutely problems, but it doesn't make much sense when we are comparing to basically completely unsourced arguements from complete and total laymen. That's basically in the category of calling out Obama did some unethical things as president... in a discussion about trump. Yes 100% agreed with the premise, but also have to say they aren't even in the same league.

IMO I don't see why you get a second human involved. Store the database in an encrypted form... save a copy to some cloud service. Why count on another human for it

I mean effectively he's making the same mistake as biden did on messaging, IE Biden basically went publicly patting himself on the back of how the US had a lower inflation than most other countries durring the covid spree. but he phrased it in a way that was regularly interpreted as "I solved inflation... you feeling like everything is falling apart is on you."

Bottom line, things have been circling the drain for decades.. which is why almost universally the candidate that wins is the one at least offering the image of change. It's why hillary basically promising to keep going in the same direction as obama, and harris's lack of ability to admit biden may have made some mistakes... gave us 2 terms of trump.

Or just on twitter, or parts of reddit, or the internet in general etc.. I mean there certainly was no shortage of outrage... with say the little mermaid etc...

Now I will admit a good portion of it is that producers have really gotten shitty on writing in general, and often try and compensate it by throwing in a less represented in media character. IE say the last 2 doctors, girl ghostbusters etc... IE things aren't terrible because of diverse casting, but if it is terrible, diverse casting isn't going to fix it.

same reason why every black person in all positions is considered DEI even when they have decades of relevant experience pages, graduated top of their class in ivy league schools, and some white guy with middling experience, possibly even in the wrong field... gets put in and nobody questions it.

I fully agree as a tool LLMs are amazing. Throw in a config file or code that you know 99% of what it should be, but can't find what's wrong... and I'd say there's a good 70% chance it will find it... maybe chasing down one or 2 red herrings before it solves it.

The bad rap of course is simply the 2 main factors.

1. idiots that use it to do the entire coding, and thus wind up with something they themselves don't have even the basic understanding of how it goes together, so they can't spot when it does something horrifically wrong.

2. The overall reality that, no matter how you slice it, it costs an absurd amount to run these things. so.. while the AI companies are letting us use these things for free or off really cheap plans, it's actually costing real money to process, and realistically there's no sign of it reaching a point where there's actually a fair trade of value...

Very 100% agreed it's in the no shit sherlock category. The american people want you to at the very least pay lip service to the idea that you are going to try to make their lives better. Rather than just calling the republicans bad.

A podium... across the room from the actual podium... that's clearly a random box he had lying around.

That's kind of how our relationship is, I handle the technical side of it, she's on spotify because I bought a 2 person plan for spotify, putting her and my son on it. I don't know how big of a difference one platform is from another, because I don't like music. I couldn't get her something to meet her music tastes, and she couldn't get me something for my tech tastes because we don't share those in common.

That's why for me I can't know what's good or bad with regards to selections of music. Because I don't listen to music. My wife mostly shuts down with the tech side, she tends to go "set it up... show me what button to push to start it, and if it's doing something I like I'll use it". So more or less, I'd need to demo it in order to see if she can use it or not... but again because I literally can't comprehend music that she likes, I can't pre-run them to find what she'd be most likely to like before the do or die demo.

I mean I want to switch because I want the minimal evil. I've normally defaulted to using things that meet my ethics over convenience. Most things for my family I set up and work around the evils. Music is a harder one for me to work with becasue I don't understand it, so it's harder for me to find a good alternative. So for me on the surface all will be equal... for my son and wife, I can't predict that because I don't really know enough to see "oh she'll hate this" or "none of her music will be in it", because I don't understand anyone elses tastes in music.

Yeah looking at it, it looks like tidal does... question I do have is what's overall good for 2 people, who seem to like music a lot, My son probably more indie type things on youtube... my girlfriend probably more I guess generic music, plus techno I think. challenge I have is I probably need to set everything up and get it all ready for them to try out in order to get the switch...

but... I have no taste for music... or really understanding of most of it. So it's hard for me to pre-judge anything because... not really a service I can use or comprehend enough to tell what's actually useful or not.

So, I'm not a music guy at all, but my wife and son do like music and use spotify, and I've paid for spotify premium. I hear of a lot of alternatives, most comonly tidal.

what would be a good option to switch them to, prefferably something likely to have almost all their existing songs, and is there anything that can transfer their playlists etc... before switching?