It's a matter of trust and incentives. How can you trust a program curated by an entity with no accountability? A therapist has a personal stake in helping patients. An LLM provider does not.
Seeking help should not be so taboo as people are resorting to doing it alone at night while no one is looking. That is society loudly saying "if you slip off the golden path even a little your life is over". So many people resorting to LLMs for therapy is a symptom of a cultural problem, it's not a solution to a root issue.
Over the last five years I've been in and out of therapy and 2/3 of my therapists have "graduated me" at some point in time, stating that their practice didn't see permanent therapy as a good solution. I don't think all therapists view it this way.
I'll start with a direct response, because otherwise I suspect my answer may come across as too ... complex.
> How can I trust a therapist that has a financial incentive to keep me seeing them?
The direct response: I hope the commenter isn't fixated on this framing of the question, because I don't think it is a useful framing. [1] What is a better framing, then? I'm not going to give a simple answer. My answer is more like a process.
I suggest refining one's notion of trust to be "I trust Person A to do {X, Y, Z} because of what I know about them (their incentives, professional training, culture, etc)."
Shift one's focus and instead ask: "What aspects of my therapist are positives and/or lead me to trust their advice? What aspects are negative and/or lead me to not trust their advice?" Put this in writing and put some time into it.
One might also want to journal on "How will I know if therapy is helping? What are my goals?" By focusing on this, I think answers relating to "How much is my therapist helping?" will become easier to figure out.
[1] I think it is not useful because both because it is loaded and because it is overly specific. Instead, focus on figuring out what actions one should take. From here, the various factors can slot in naturally.
I know many people (myself included) that stopped using Windows altogether this year. Even accounting for biases, this is a very bad year for Microsoft.
It's a good idea. I'll do that in the Spring. Any recommendations on makes / series that do well in the cold and support some form of home assistant offline control (no cloud integration, zigbee or matter or similar)?
Edit: it seems that the market has decided that every manufacturer will ship the same cloud garbage and that the community has decided it actually isn't that hard to bypass and replace their wifi modules with ESPHome devices.
For the less electronically inclined, an "ideal diode" surprisingly does not contain plain diodes, it refers to actively controlling MOSFETs to function as diodes.
They're more efficient and quite amazing in PoE applications in particular!
The chassis net should be passed through the cable shield and the power isolated to force the current return through the cable in case power ground is bonded to chassis (which is commonly done, not sure why, I prefer a 1MOhm standoff). While not perfect this link is concise and provides handles to the relevant specs.
Yeah, TVS before any other silicon junction. It's nice to throw a single-use medium or slow blow SM fuse before the TVS to open circuit in device faults.
This is going to be individual preference. I like the density and low design risk of fully integrated solutions like Microchip's PD70224. As long as you spec your FETs appropriately you can't go wrong with TI or AD options (VDS of at least 100 V, ID of at least as much current as you want to cram through with healthy headroom, RDSon that makes you happy, VGS that's compatible with the datasheet charge pump, size and cost that doesn't make you weep). When in doubt, stay very close to the datasheet's design.
I just saw that the PD70224 is not recommended for new designs. What an awful day to have eyes.
Oh, it's been superseded by the PD70288. Much lower RDSon, but a huge 8x8 package. The charge pump is mysteriously gone and there is now a UVLO of 24V. This is more PoE-specific, which is less generally interesting to me.
If only someone would sell me an ideal diode full bridge rectifier IC with integrated FETs, OCP circuit breaking, UVLO, OVLO, a fault flag, control input, and current monitor, I'd never buy a different power entry IC.
> - Was having a conversation today about isolation and grounding for POE (product has a metal case). Do you have a reference? Or standard?
Huh. I'm not the GP poster but interesting question. AFAIK there is no proper ground reference on the LAN cable. I'm not sure I've ever seen a metal case… wait, I do, outdoor wifi APs have metal cases sometimes.
If you find out, report back ;D
> - Do you have a part recommendation or reference design for ideal diode POE?
I've done a PoE device (802.3at, 25W) and just went with TI's reference design; the higher power ones use ideal diodes, sometimes there's multiple circuit variants.
(It's not worth mucking with the PoE design for small-scale builds; the reference design might be a bit more expensive but you get that money back on way less trouble to deal with.)
I use the FDMQ8205. It's an old part, a little pricey, but keeps the board footprint low. It also has a sufficiently high UVLO, so it acts like regular diodes during the classification phase and you don't need to factor those in to the Rcls values.
I don’t know why assume that in every country in the world that is free. In my European country until 15 years ago or so you had to hire someone to do your taxes for you, and currently the free method only works for the most simple tax filing. In fact what you get is called a “draft” of your tax filings because you’re supposed to make sure it’s okay, and it’s your responsibility if you miss something or if the draft is wrong.
And obviously the draft usually assumes that you will have to pay more tax, since there’s a perverse incentive given it’s the government who fills it for you.
Which country if I may ask? I have lived in France Switzerland and Ireland and haven't seen something like this, even though governments provide the tax filing software.
I wonder if the explanation actually had to do with these people who used to do the job 15 years ago influencing the process to ensure they remain relevant. Kind of like in the US actually.
Intuit spent $3.8 million on lobbying against Direct File in 2023, HR Block another $3 million. In total, the tax prep industry has spent $93 million lobbying against the Free File program since 2003 (through 2023, couldn't find a more recent source).
Independent analysis of official state reports contradicts you. It’s easier to look at states than to analyze which federal rep submitted which amendment or rider
Seeking help should not be so taboo as people are resorting to doing it alone at night while no one is looking. That is society loudly saying "if you slip off the golden path even a little your life is over". So many people resorting to LLMs for therapy is a symptom of a cultural problem, it's not a solution to a root issue.
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