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  1. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~comp

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    Lua is incredibly fast for a language that is high level as it is. It's even used in many videogames for this reason

    Lua is incredibly fast for a language that is high level as it is. It's even used in many videogames for this reason

    4 votes

  2. Comment on My experience, becoming a contributor, and other thoughts/questions. in ~talk

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    Feel free to post content to your heart's content as long as it doesn't break any rule. I am sure many people will like it :)

    Feel free to post content to your heart's content as long as it doesn't break any rule. I am sure many people will like it :)

    14 votes

  3. Comment on What are some interesting hobbies you can start for free and without leaving your home? in ~hobbies

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    I wish I could answer that, but I've only had friends who did this, I never did it myself One of them was a graduated chemist which had all sort of cool equipments he used for brewing. But the...

    Do you have any information as for how to get into brewing a bit of beer or something similar?

    I wish I could answer that, but I've only had friends who did this, I never did it myself

    One of them was a graduated chemist which had all sort of cool equipments he used for brewing. But the other one was a friend who used exclusively improvised equipment he had at home, he even built an improvised alembic out of hose and a pressure cooker (pressure cooker are super common and relatively cheap in my country)

  4. Comment on What are some interesting hobbies you can start for free and without leaving your home? in ~hobbies

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    *Programming *Drawing *Playing an instrument *Brewing *Dancing *Lots of stuff, really

    *Programming

    *Drawing

    *Playing an instrument

    *Brewing

    *Dancing

    *Lots of stuff, really

    12 votes

  5. Comment on Happy Friday! What's everyone doing this weekend? in ~talk

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    Yesterday and today I was doing a list of programming problems to send this Monday. I just finished it and now I'm finally on vacation! \o/

    Yesterday and today I was doing a list of programming problems to send this Monday. I just finished it and now I'm finally on vacation! \o/

    1 vote

  6. Comment on [Language Learning] Telegram groups for practicing languages in ~hobbies

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    Learning a new language opens a whole new world to you: you'll meet people, cultures, music and a bunch of other stuff you'd never do otherwise. I learned Spanish recently and met a bunch of...

    Learning a new language opens a whole new world to you: you'll meet people, cultures, music and a bunch of other stuff you'd never do otherwise. I learned Spanish recently and met a bunch of people (online) I'd never meet otherwise, many of whom don't speak either English or Portuguese; I listened to music from Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Spain; I watched Youtube channels in Spanish... It really broadened my horizons

    I know since English is the international language you might think there's not much benefit in learning another one, but there is

    2 votes

  7. Comment on [Language Learning] Telegram groups for practicing languages in ~hobbies

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    English and Spanish I am in the Spanish groups as a learner and in the Portuguese groups as a native who help out others. I don't participate in the English group because I already get enough...

    English and Spanish

    I am in the Spanish groups as a learner and in the Portuguese groups as a native who help out others. I don't participate in the English group because I already get enough practice in the internet as a whole haha

    2 votes

  8. Comment on What's something you're good at? And what advice to you have for those who aren't good at this thing? in ~talk

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    Portugal é Portugal em português hahaha. Aliás, eu sou brasileiro, do estado de São Paulo Thank you! Believe it or not, a few years ago I thought I'd never learn any foreign language besides...

    Portugal é Portugal em português hahaha. Aliás, eu sou brasileiro, do estado de São Paulo

    I'm so impressed that you can speak three!

    Thank you! Believe it or not, a few years ago I thought I'd never learn any foreign language besides English (which I studied since I was 8). Out of the blue, I decided to learn Spanish seriously when I was 25 yo and I worked hard on it without giving up and I'm quite proud of my progress. Nowadays I sincerely don't think I'll learn any foreign language besides Spanish and English xD (let's hope I'm wrong)

    I'm pretty obsessed with the idea of travelling to/living in Brazil, though, so it's a good motivating factor to work on my Portuguese, and I like the language a lot! It's nice that last time we went to Mexico I could understand a little of the Spanish as a side effect, and my sister-in-law is fluent in Italian so I can get a little bit of what she's saying too now!

    You're going through the right track: focusing on a single language (which is always easier) and being excited about a culture related to that language. These are the things that keep you moving forward! :)

    A tip I can give you, find a group where you can talk with native and learners if you aren't in one already, it'll help you a lot (it sure helped me). I made a post suggesting the Telegram groups I use to practice languages, check it out if you'd like

  9. [Language Learning] Telegram groups for practicing languages

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    I'm an user of group of chat groups called Polyglossia Network, where you can speak with both native and learners from a given languages (and it has lots of languages) So if you wanna join, just...

    I'm an user of group of chat groups called Polyglossia Network, where you can speak with both native and learners from a given languages (and it has lots of languages)

    So if you wanna join, just send a message to @polyglossia_bot (PG's bot) on Telegram and click "Group Links", it'll show you links to every group. I'll leave a list here with the groups from more popular languages just in case, but it might get outdated as sometimes links are changed (to see the full list, send a message to the bot @polyglossia_bot)

    16 votes

  10. Comment on A jury may have sentenced a man to death because he’s gay. And the Justices don’t care. in ~lgbt

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    The title is true and misleading at the same time, the most natural assumption is that the man was probably not guilty

    The title is true and misleading at the same time, the most natural assumption is that the man was probably not guilty

    8 votes

  11. Comment on What a Russian smile means - How culture and history make American and Russian smiles different in ~science

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    This is very interesting. In Brazil we have a culture of not only smiling a lot but hugging (any sex) and cheek kissing (only man&woman or woman&woman), even with people you've just met sometimes...

    This is very interesting. In Brazil we have a culture of not only smiling a lot but hugging (any sex) and cheek kissing (only man&woman or woman&woman), even with people you've just met sometimes

    I don't see any of the cultures as superior or inferior, it's just a way to go about your life and some diversity is always interesting :)

    EDIT: Another cool trait we have here that I enjoy a lot is to laugh about one's own bad luck/disgrace/unfortunate situation. I heard stories from foreigners who found it rude, but for us it's a way to make ourselves and friends at least laugh from a difficult situation and help us have a more light-hearted life :P

    4 votes

  12. Comment on What's currently upsetting you? in ~talk

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    I think I feel like partly because it's the end of the semester for me (which means lots of work and lack of sleep) and I've gone through some social anxiety from having to deal with group...

    I think I feel like partly because it's the end of the semester for me (which means lots of work and lack of sleep) and I've gone through some social anxiety from having to deal with group projects (where it was mostly me carrying everyone's weight)

    The main reason, I think, is that I stopped taking care of myself to focus on college. I gained weight, gave up a few of my hobbies, stuff like that. But I went back to dieting and exercising and I already feel an impact, I think I'll try to learn something in my one now that I'm on vacation (it started today)

    Btw, thanks for the message :)

    2 votes

  13. Comment on What's something you're good at? And what advice to you have for those who aren't good at this thing? in ~talk

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    Parabéns! Ler um livro complicado como Harry Potter em outra língua deve ser bem difícil! Qual é a sua língua nativa? Answering your questions, with English I used to skip the words unless they're...

    Parabéns! Ler um livro complicado como Harry Potter em outra língua deve ser bem difícil! Qual é a sua língua nativa?

    Answering your questions, with English I used to skip the words unless they're really important to get the story. I could also get a feel of what words meant after saying they being used do often

    Portuguese and Spanish are very similar, so I could already read stuff without really knowing the language. But, there'd be a lot of words that I'd skip or that would mean something very different from the equivalent word in Portuguese. So, I decided to use a dictionary and look up each and every word I didn't know and this made reading MUCH slower but also helped me learn a lot. Eventually, I decided to only use the dictionary for words that seemed important, as long as I could confidently say I was getting what was going on

    2 votes

  14. Comment on What's currently upsetting you? in ~talk

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    I use mostly Reddit and Telegram. I have many friends on the latter and I use it for practicing Spanish, so I don't see myself getting off it but I could diminish my time on it About Reddit, I...

    I use mostly Reddit and Telegram. I have many friends on the latter and I use it for practicing Spanish, so I don't see myself getting off it but I could diminish my time on it

    About Reddit, I really think I should spend much less time on it, maybe even delete my account. I'm only using it for distraction and end up getting into useless arguments a lot :P

    8 votes

  15. Comment on Has anyone gone to Pride events this month? in ~lgbt

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    Unfortunately not, I wasn't even aware of the day until after it happened. I'd still need to go to another city to get to the event

    Unfortunately not, I wasn't even aware of the day until after it happened. I'd still need to go to another city to get to the event

    2 votes

  16. Comment on What's currently upsetting you? in ~talk

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    I don't think inviting diverse people is discrimination, I think it's a good thing. If it meant blocking non-diverse people from joining that would suck, but I really doubt that's happening

    I don't think inviting diverse people is discrimination, I think it's a good thing. If it meant blocking non-diverse people from joining that would suck, but I really doubt that's happening

    7 votes

  17. Comment on What's currently upsetting you? in ~talk

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    I feel kind of angry and disappointed about myself and I don't know why. It's supposedly the best I've been in years because my life is finally on track

    I feel kind of angry and disappointed about myself and I don't know why. It's supposedly the best I've been in years because my life is finally on track

    4 votes

  18. Comment on What's currently upsetting you? in ~talk

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    I agree, trying to spend more time irl because being so much time online stress me

    I agree, trying to spend more time irl because being so much time online stress me

    15 votes

  19. Comment on Any Linux-only gamers? Share your experience! in ~games

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    From what I understand, if you as a company make a Linux version available you're expected to give support to it, test that version of the game, fix Linux specific bugs I am not a developer myself...

    From what I understand, if you as a company make a Linux version available you're expected to give support to it, test that version of the game, fix Linux specific bugs

    I am not a developer myself so I don't know how much additional time and money would be required for it, but it's always a factor to consider. It's never something as simple as "pressing the compile for Linux button"

    Still, it'd be nice if they always pressed that button whenever they could

    4 votes

  20. Comment on What's something you're good at? And what advice to you have for those who aren't good at this thing? in ~talk

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    It depends. In English I watch it without subtitles except if it's a video with a lot of numbers (because I have some trouble keeping track of them) or if it's too much noise. I put English...

    It depends. In English I watch it without subtitles except if it's a video with a lot of numbers (because I have some trouble keeping track of them) or if it's too much noise. I put English subtitles when I use them

    I used to watch things with Portuguese subtitles, but then I decided to use English subtitles to practice my English and I finally stopped using subs when I became too lazy to even download them for the series I used to watch (like HIMYM, for example)

    With Spanish, I try to watch without subtitles but I'm not as good with the language, so I put on Spanish subtitles when I can't get understand them which is more often than I'd like to admit. Things are improving though :)

    1 vote