I love fish! It’s my favorite shell. Alas, most of the time I’m stuck with powershell or the abomination that is cmd.
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Extremely impressive
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This is the first thing I read from the last few posts and thought we’re talking about food 
This reminds me of one memorable acoustics lecture during my studies where I wasn’t paying attention at all, probably programming something on my laptop. When I re-surfaced, I was dumbfounded by what the professor had just written to the blackboard:
Fish density correlates with one over wavelength
What? How the heck had we gone from sound dispersion in room acoustics to fish density? Well, I soon figured out, he had taken a detour from room acoustics to maritime sonar for fishing, where the resonant frequency of a swarm is indicative of the fish species.
In retrospect, fascinating stuff!
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Any tips I need to know?
Yes, zsh. l previously shied away from fish because it wasn’t POSIX compliant, but I believe they’ve fixed that.
Another interesting shell is nushell. Its very powershell-esqe (everything is an object), but without that Microsoft funk all over it.
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I recently got a kobo ereader to run koreader and some plugins. Since I have a readeck instance, I got the plugin for that. Koreader is fantastic software. It has a ton of options and is extremely flexible. It found it funny that the community there has a similar attitude to ours: when new users say “wow there are a ton of options” the general response is “this software is great, you’ll figure out what you need. The docs are good!” 
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It’s programmable, like all shells. But unlike most shells, the programming model is relatively sane. The downside is, sanity is unusual in shells, and that makes it incompatible with bash syntax.
But really, it just does most things well out of the box without any futzing. You can search the history by typing a fuzzy query and hitting up arrow. It auto completes things well, including directory changes. It generates its autocompletions from the man pages! It does multi line editing well. The color scheme is pleasant. The syntax for loops and branches is sane.
Otherwise, it’s a shell, and does shell things like all shells. I’ve been running fish as my personal shell for ages, abd it never gave me any trouble.
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No, that line is for cameras & lenses 
I use shells for interacting with Linux quite a bit, but I consciously avoid any programming. All shells I have tried are either full of idiotic corner cases, or are really dumbed down, or a combination of the two. The only advantage of a shell is availability (eh sh and bash are ubiquitous) and fast startup, but beyond that, just give me a proper programming language if I want control flow or nontrivial data manipulation.
I have looked at fish before, but, for example, variables totally weird me out. They can be lists, and have very, very complicated scoping. I don’t understand why.
I just stay with bash on Linux. Years ago, when I was working on Sun Solaris systems, I read a little (but not enough) about the advantages of ksh-93 over ksh (the ubiquitous on UNIX Korn shell). So, I switched on my workstation. Stuff stopped working. The lesson I took was, stick with the main supported shell. Of course, with a lot of study and digging, I could have made things work, but I had more pressing work at hand.
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you know what the AI tool is we really need? Solving mixed lighting. Especially of photos backlit by diffused sunlight from the outside with warm LED light from the front. I HATE colour grading / white balancing those photos. Always turn out shite.
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I usually enjoy a lot taking photos in the streets during World Cup: less car traffic, less people, more quiet parks … But not this year (games are late evening or in the night, EU time zone) 
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Espresso, Filter, French Press, mokka oven on the stove,
I do not count cold brew as I do that in my french press, so you need to teach me 2 more ways… 
Aeropress, cupping, cowboy coffee, instant, pod machine (not sure if those last ones counts as coffee, but eh).
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I have Cafelat Robot, V60, aeropress, moka pot. Although nowadays I only really use the Robot, it’s quick. easy to clean, tastes good, etc. Grinder is 1zpresso jx pro. While it was good for the time(bought it 6 years ago), it is not that easy to clean and the handle pops off, I might get a new one eventually, dunno how the market is nowadays for manual grinders.
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My procrastination thread on pixls, sometimes it’s just hard to stay away from it: What are you listening to?
Cool APOD today: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260616.html
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re: carbon steel pans
I ended up ordering Matfer Bourgeat pans. While the Verdagen name looks Dutch, the pans are most likely made in Brazil. That may not mean inferior quality, but I have more confidence in the French-made pans.
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Oh wow, talk about a carefully planned shot…
So I got a PlayRaw idea that would (to my knowledge) be different from anything that’s been done before…
What if we did a challenge, where each participant adds only ONE row in the History stack in Darktable, based on the edit of the previous person? And gradually we make a single edit 
Let’s say each person would first post something like “I’m editing now” and then edit the post with the XMP file attached. And also, Mask Manager entry would not count in the History stack.
Besides making sure we use the same version of Darktable, are there any possible problems I’ve missed…? What do you think?
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