@GeePawHill I don't think "musicologist" and "parts that I dislike" are in opposition.
Opposing term: Fan. I am a fan of the Alan Parsons Project. When I was 13 I was gifted Eye in the Sky. It was the first piece of music I ever owned. Capital-F Formative. Some of the Project's stuff is awful. But I'm a fan of the artist. Alan still makes music. I buy it instantly without waiting for reviews.
Is that opposite to musicologiy? Maybe? I think... I think maybe distaste is a requisite for taste.
I think jumping spiders are amazing. They're the cats of the spider world, and they will interact with you if you know how to communicate with them.
They hunt by eyesight. Today a Platycryptus undatus teleported onto my monitor, and she tried to catch a mouse.
Years ago, a hardware engineer presenting the architecture of the gpu we were building:
Him: The critical processing loop stays fast by using deferred interrupts--
Me: What's a deferred interrupt?
Him: I'll tell you after.
Everyone: *laughter*
Me: Ahh. Thank you.
@noelrap I would probably fall back to rolling my own, if my needs were tiny. It's not trivial but doable in a couple hours. Call it half a day for feature creep and googling references.
I recall an old screencast of "Roll Your Own Auth" from early 201x. Hah, just googled it, and the entire Internet has turned into a sux/rulez forum, with one camp emphatically stressing "you should do it, because trust me" and the other rebutting with "you should not do it, because trust me."
(Don't trust me.)
@jjfphd For the record, giving this message to ChatGPT along with "Write a rebuttal to this from the viewpoint of a petulant AI" results in joy.
Best line so far: "Don't mind me, I'll be over here rolling my virtual eyes."
Back in 2010 or so I said that being a programmer has led me to want to be the first person to teach a computer how to feel pain.
Now it's 2023 and we can gaslight AI language models.
We're getting there.