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Fish Shell 4.8 Improves History Search, Scripting, and Completions

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As a ux/ui nerd for me its mostly that its a very thoughtful user experience. I have been more or less good at the terminal at different points in time, but if you don't spend much time there its easy to forget every command and how to do things. And ultimately, I don't really enjoy using it as an interface. Its a blank void with little to nothing in the way of affordances-- remember the magic words and you can do anything. But the fact its only used by technical folks means often no one cares to add affordances or ease of use even when it might be possible, and when they do its from a power user perspective.

Fish feels like a much more thoughtful execution of how to interact with a command line interface, and doesnt require a ton of time spent in a terminal to achieve that better ux. Though I still want to set up a nice prompt that improves legibility and make things a bit easier still, I just haven't played with starship enough yet.

There are more things I'd wish for in a perfect world, but for me fish is a very nice step in the right direction :)

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TIL of the concept of the "glass cliff", whereby women or ethnic minorities are often handed the reins of power only as the organisation or government in question is at its most vulnerable to failure

Huh... That happened in north American league of legends with the LCS director previous to thw current one.

Though it feels like a bit more than just a glass cliff kinda situation, we got a woman LCS director at a time when riot kept making absolutely shit decisions that everyone hated, and then they made a really shitty decision from over her head, if I remember right it later came out she had just gone on vacation or something, and they just let it seem like it was her decision.

She did not stay director... Which, frankly good for her 😅. I feel like I'm gonna see this everywhere now

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I sat behind someone on a plane who was using ChatGPT to write the materials and remarks for a sustainability and climate conference.

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Adding greater possibility of virtual attendance could be a cool change assuming it is viable from a cost perspective

But folks who are not able to use VR in some way or another, be it disability or technological illiteracy, are still valuable parts of the conversation on climate change, so trying to do it all that way seems iffy to me

On the discussion more broadly, personally I find communication via video call about a million times harder than in person. I get that thats not the case for everyone but the communication is literally the entire point of having a conference like that. Trying to do it all over zoom seems like a good way to handicap thw effectiveness of conferences on a really important subject.

Maybe thats cause I have some auditory processing issues, maybe its because of social anxiety or neurodivergence and feeling dependent on lots of social information thats hard to read via video call to understand what people are communicating, but I think that kinda just adds to the accessibility being functionally important point, I imagine there are lots of neurodivergent folks in research. But maybe video calls are much easier for other people 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Moving to Fedora? How stable is it?

Folks may not like me saying this but some of this may be pretty common across linux distros, at least in my experience, though much of this feels like it may be desktop environment specific. May also be impacted by your specific hardware setup. It feels like technical folks kinda just don't notice small polish issues or jank at times 😅

Your best bet would be to throw fedora or other options on a flash drive and try them out. You should be able to see if many/all of these issues exist on another distro/desktop without installing :)

Best of luck, I hope you find an option thats more suitable to you :)

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Cholita Climbers

The word cholita has been used pejoratively to refer to Aymara women.[6] They have also been ridiculed for wearing their traditional costumes and have been discriminated against in public spaces and in employment opportunities. To challenge these negative connotations, this group of mountaineers climb in their traditional attire.[7][3] Other Cholitas, such as the fighting cholitas, and the skating cholitas,[1] have excelled in other extreme sports and Aymara women in traditional dress are moving into other fields at high levels.[8][9]

That was a genuinely fascinating read, thanks for posting this ☺️

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I lost my friend

Sending love my friend 🫂

If it is comfortable to talk about in this setting, how did he pass (asking as an invitation to talk about things. I always struggle to say anything in detail unless invited, but you are welcome not to share if thats preferable :)

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Bucks trading Giannis Antetokounmpo to Heat for haul of players, picks

Every time I see NBA posts it reminds me of my friend whos super into basketball and will infodump basketball info at me for hours over the phone, and it makes me happy :)

I don't really understand what's happening in the world of basketball but I'll hope theres something fun or exciting in it for y'all to enjoy right now :) I think I remember her saying the draft is soon, I hope your team gets something good out of it

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Sonic turns 35 today—what does this franchise mean to you?

My only experience with sonic growing up was the Chao garden in sonic adventure 2 battle, which I only played once or twice when I went over to a friend's place, but I was absolutely mesmerized by the Chao garden

They wanted to play the sonic levels and I just had no interest in that part lol. I tried to go back and play it on emulator a bit ago and got a ways into it, but the camera controls felt a bit like pulling all my teeth out one by one 😅 I guess I'm a bit spoiled by modern games for a classic sonic experience

I wish I could have played it more when I was little