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I'm with you at least 2/3 of the way. My preferred stack is PRQL + DuckDB + Dagster. I evaluated the space for work at my current company (was originally only DE, handling ingests from ~300 sources across various systems, on order of ~1k downstream tables in dbt + hundreds of dashboards + a handful of business-critical data+app features; now leading a small team).

I came away ranking dagster first, prefect second, everything else not close. IMO dagster wins fundamentally for data engineers bc it picks the right core abstraction (software defined assets) and builds everything else around that. Prefect for me is best for general non-data-specfic orchestration as a nearly transparent layer around existing scripts.

Ofc to each their own based on their usecase.

I very much agree with English being a hodgepodge of confusing rules, especially those tense-related.

Re rewtriting (3) though: does not the following suffice? "She must have been being watched".

I can imagine an argument that "She would have had to have" is not equivalent to "She must have" on grounds that the "have had" might suggest additionally that the past-ongoing-watching no longer occurs. I don't really think this flies, though, since the natural reading of "been being watched" already suggests to me that the watching was relegated to the past ("been" being interpreted as only connoting the past, not the "inclusive-or"-type interpretation "previously and perhaps presently"; much as "or" itself is - to my chagrin! - generally interpreted exclusively in standard parlance).

I couldn't think of how to simplify the "been being" though; that is a tough nut.

About this: I have a relation who works for a relatively large upstream auto part supplier. I asked him somewhat jokingly about this fight club scene, and he immediately and unabashedly told me he'd been involved in a number of such conversations. In retrospect, I can't understand why I was at all surprised: how else would the conversations go in a corporation (whose sole or primary incentive is by default monetary)?

(To be clear, I'm not saying that I find this morally correct — I'm not sure how I feel about that aspect, honestly, except icky at the surface level. I more means that it seems retrospectively to me that, well, of course that's how it would go, given the incentive structure)

I can't speak to "best", but I can say that I've been very happy with BazQux Reader. It has good keyboard shortcuts, is very fast, lets you make filters within your subscriptions, has a good in-reader article view, a good mobile site (no app, which I like), and also allows to subscribe to see social media sites if that's your thing. I had previously used Feedly and much prefer BQR

I apologize if this is too unsubstantive of a comment.

I primarily want to say how much I like the parent comment's writing. It is very evocative — "the tea sat tangibly in my stomach", eg, is the sort of description I'd expect in a well-written novel. Kudos nimbius.

Separately, I fully agree w/ the above point about a 2:100 ratio being well too much. The tea shop from which I buy generally recommends ~2g loose for a 175ml cup, but I still find this to be too strong at anything except a minimal brewing time. I tend to use about 1g/cup, ie a bit over 0.5% by weight.

Logic is my thing (although regrettably not what my supervisor has me doing; that's another can of worms).

For me personally, the above is exactly correct. Logic is wonderful for me in large part because it's so far removed from tactile reality, though so ingrained in everything.

PDEs/analysis are way too applied for my taste; they as such don't give me the same escape into a world of pure thought (although of course they do provide this moreso than applied ML, or -- god forbid, for me -- web development would). Logic is seductive to me this way.

My understanding is that TempleOS was/is regarded as a tremendous one-person achievement (although of course its author had some quite nonstandard beliefs). Whereas Urbit seems to be generally decried as fakery

+++ for Noice, I use it too and really like it. High quality sounds, and as parent commenter said, it's Free

Thanks very much!