• Seleni@lemmy.world
    22·
    8 hours ago

    Technically a viola is actually a mini cello. I hope his knowledge of bash & zsh is better than his knowledge of musical instruments lol

  • YTG123@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    22 hours ago

    It’s true that there is a very large transfer between violin and viola, but just the experience of playing multiple instruments, even if this similar, increases one’s value by a lot. Depending on the situation wherever you happen to be, demand for violists can be much greater than for violinists, so playing both rather than the violin alone is a big boost.

    • meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      7 hours ago

      Oh absolutely. I’m a full time musician and the only way I’ve been able to do that is play 23 different instruments. Being good enough to play in a group is all you need- you get good really quick when money is on the line.

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
    67·
    2 days ago

    People with deep knowledge of string instruments and/or shell languages are rapidly approaching your location.

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      The violin part kinda checks out tbh. It’s like saying a saxophone is basically a shiny clarinet. It’s musician ragebait but it’s not entirely false.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
        3·
        1 day ago

        At the end of the day, every instrument is just a mechanical-to-acoustic transducer with a resonating body to selectively amplify the desired notes and harmonics. The real question is whether a jackdaw qualifies as a sandwich.

          • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Both harmonicas and bagpipes produce sound by passing air over one or multiple reeds (tuned to resonate at specific fundamental frequencies), inducing oscillations in the reeds, which modulate the air flow. Bagpipes use pipes to amplify the sound, and harmonicas use the cavity between the reed plate and the body, and often the player’s hand.

            A digital keyboard that doesn’t produce sound is just a fancy human interface device.

  • nialv7@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 day ago

    I once had the misfortune of having to read zsh source code…

    In unrelated news I no longer use zsh.

      • nialv7@lemmy.world
        2·
        18 hours ago
        /* Lasciate ogni speranza.                                                  *
 * This function is a nightmare.  It works, but I'm sure that nobody really *
 * understands why.  The problem is: to make it cleaner we would need       *
 * changes in the lexer code (and then in the parser, and then...).         */

        source

        there are more if you keep reading… (also, spoiler alert, this function doesn’t work, that was why i was looking at it.)

        • Victor@lemmy.world
          2·
          16 hours ago

          It doesn’t surprise me in the least bit, considering how complex everything seems to be in zsh.

          Years ago, I was trying to understand how the completion system works. I never understood.

          Even the user-facing shit you need to put in your .zshrc in order to enable completion in the first place does not look like it’s made for a human to read. Not to mention that you need to enable it in the first place.

          Configuring zsh was such a mess for me, for years. I don’t know why I used it for so long. Glad I gave fish a shot.

    • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldOP
      8·
      2 days ago

      i’m all about oh-my-zsh. I mostly like it because it loads a random theme every time you run source ~/.zshrc, so you get exposed to a lot of different themes, so you can pick one that looks really nice. The one I’ve gone with was the most minimalist theme I could find. export ZSH_THEME="miloshadzic"

      • fonix232@fedia.io
        4·
        2 days ago

        Meh, I find OMZ a bit too opinionated.

        antidote with the right plugins + starship with the right prompt builder beats anything.

          • fonix232@fedia.io
            1·
            1 day ago

            In my opinion - and yes I know it’s punny - fish also belongs in the “too opinionated” category.

            It’s not a bad shell but overall I found it to be quite reluctant to work the way you want it, if that isn’t the way the developer meant it to be used. Which is fine, but again, it means that fish is opinionated.

          • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            2 days ago

            I tried to learn it, but failed. Looks like I’d love to use both, but I have no idea where to start. Any suggestions?

            • prettybunnys@piefed.socialEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              It might be easiest to work backwards with starship, see how it integrates with fish then see how to run fish.

              Then install fish, add starship to it.

              99% of my usage is around how it helps me navigate the terminal, I use bash for all my scripts lmao

              • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
                1·
                20 hours ago

                That sounds quite good, actually. I mean, I have a gazillion bash scripts, but I can keep them. I think I don’t care about posix, or whatever it’s called, for my day-to-day navigating the shell.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
        31·
        2 days ago

        OMZ is overrated. It’s too much code for too little effect when most of the plugins boil down to aliases and prompt themes, and all you have to do is source them in your .zshrc anyway.

        I am by no means saying that the plugins and themes are useless. I’m saying that OMZ is unnecessary.

  • BoosBeau@lemmy.world
    71·
    2 days ago

    But… they literally used that post to tell people they play both the violin and the viola…

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    62·
    2 days ago

    Dude, people still think vi is important skills. I know ‘ed’, so the rest is just a waste.

    For that matter, just use cat, and be free of vietnam-era cult shit.