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I agree with most of the examples at the end of the post, except HelloFresh.

I'm a huge fan of HelloFresh, and I think it solves an important problem which is one of waste. Before this service, I would buy odd quantities of ingredients (especially vegetables) that would invariable go bad and get chucked in the bin. The amount of lettuce, mushrooms, avocados, etc I threw away were obscene.

With these kind of services I get a tailored amount of perishable ingredients to a specific recipe on a specific day and great deal of mental energy is saved by outsourcing meal planning to them. I don't think I've ever threw away a single food item since using them. IMO this well worth the extra money.

There's always a degree of subjectivity and personal taste, but I do consider this to be the peak of OS UIs.

I have an "ironic" machine at home that is an old retina iMac, with Linux installed and themed with Chicago95. My attempt at a machine with a nice hardware, nice OS and nice UI :)

I couldn't find an explanation for why a TV series (Twin Peaks: The Return) is in a Greatest Films of All Time list.

In any case, that's a handy reference list for things to watch.

Can't speak for other cats, but mine is crazy for tuna. I can't even finish opening the tin with his head butting in.

Cats "meow" (miˈaʊ̯) in all languages. Dogs can woof, blaf, ham, ao, ...

Just as side note, I clap as in figure A2.

However, it's one of those things in life where I don't remember when or why I started doing it like that. Surely I didn't clap like that before my earliest memories (3 or 4 yo).

I've tried Borg but I settled with Kopia and a[0] cheap S3-like storage.

Everything is automated and runs on a schedule, but when I need some ad-hoc restore, say, of a single snapshot or folder I can always use KopiaUI.

Been quite happy with it.

[0] - actually two providers, for redundancy, plus local physical storage

These are not "small things", but things people generally don't pay attention and just use a cheap version. Using good quality ones really makes life better:

A mechanical keyboard. Retina displays. Comfortable shoes. Prescription sunglasses. Good coffee.

> Python is the de facto glue language with one of the biggest ecosystems out there

I never contested that.

> ML is very specifically about manipulating data (a fundamentally dynamic task)

I disagree strongly with using dynamic languages for data. Data has dimensions, units, types. You need to know that you're not adding coats to horses or USD to EUR. You need to know that you didn't silently sliced by the wrong axis. You may want formal verifications. You may to transform data without worrying about silent errors.

All the "metadata" and wrapper classes ML in Python are just trying to give you what the language can't.

> a very glue-task. Give me any language better than python for that

That's my point exactly. ML has evolved beyond glueing a few C libraries. It needs complex, big programs, which is an area where Python is terrible. Also the different nature of the "glued" components (each with its own data formats, protocols and calling conventions) makes the glue a mish-mash of untyped mixed magic idioms.

I really think that Python is not a good language for ML, it just got "there" first.

The ecosystem is the real plus, of course. But the language is a headache for this. I agree with the "false economy" angle. I would happily trade the "agility" of dynamic "gluing" with some kind of real type safety, human-readable error messages and performance[0].

[0] - hiding C in Python's clothes doesn't count :)

Yep, exactly. Unfortunately, it is working.

People will choose convenience over mostly everything else.