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  1. Comment on What are your traditional Christmas dinners, and do you do anything that's unusual in your country? in ~food

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    Thanks for sharing. Reading up on the wiki, the Greek 'Vasilopita' is the same as our tradition. Then again, we share a lot in the Balkans.

    Thanks for sharing. Reading up on the wiki, the Greek 'Vasilopita' is the same as our tradition. Then again, we share a lot in the Balkans.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on What are your traditional Christmas dinners, and do you do anything that's unusual in your country? in ~food

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    I never knew about that tradition! I definitely can see the similarities. It's fun finding stuff like this between cultures that seem distant.

    I never knew about that tradition! I definitely can see the similarities. It's fun finding stuff like this between cultures that seem distant.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on What are your traditional Christmas dinners, and do you do anything that's unusual in your country? in ~food

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    Yes, some areas in Macedonia do something unusual, although we celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January. We put a coin in bread, or another kind of pastry. Before the Christmas dinner, the family...

    Yes, some areas in Macedonia do something unusual, although we celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January.

    We put a coin in bread, or another kind of pastry. Before the Christmas dinner, the family head cuts it up into n + 3 pieces where n is the number of people on the table, one for God, for the house and one for the animals (as in, livestock and such, but modern times - pets as well). Everyone takes a piece and the 3 extra pieces are left over. Whoever gets the coin will have fortune in the upcoming year. If no one has it, we check the rest of the pieces (:

    We leave the dinner table as is throughout the night with the intent to allow God to feast as well.

    I belive this tradition is more pagan than anything, because some areas practice it on other dates. For example, my home town does it on "old" new year (following the orthodox calendar) with a pastry called burek.

    6 votes

  4. Comment on Is it possible (or normal) to release a Desktop GUI app using PIP/PyPI instead of regular tools like PyInstaller? in ~comp

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    There is a package manager for Windows: chocolatey

    There is a package manager for Windows: chocolatey

    3 votes

  5. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I just bought a domain for my personal page. I like the idea and I'd support it. How would it work without turning in profits though?

    I just bought a domain for my personal page.

    I like the idea and I'd support it. How would it work without turning in profits though?

    2 votes

  6. Comment on If you use ChatGPT or other LLM, how do you use it? in ~tech

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    I'm a developer. I use it on a daily basis. When it first came out I found myself using it more often than Google, but have since gained intuition on what it's good at and what I'm better off...

    I'm a developer. I use it on a daily basis. When it first came out I found myself using it more often than Google, but have since gained intuition on what it's good at and what I'm better off going to Google directly.

    I ask it to write me X and Y in some language or framework I'm not familiar with and it's a nice starting point. I usually branch out and do research myself from there.

    I often ask it how I can do something, like setup a server, create health checks for my app or similar.

    When I have an error and Google isn't helpful, I can copy the entire faulty code and error messages and it gives me suggestions to try out, if not a solution.

    With the new image integration, I can send it a photo of a design and tell it to design it in whichever frontend framework I want (even some in-house) and it does a surprisingly good job.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Which board games have you been playing this week? (to 13th August) in ~games.tabletop

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    How do you like Feed the Kraken? I heard about it recently and it sounds fun.

    How do you like Feed the Kraken? I heard about it recently and it sounds fun.

  8. Comment on Favorite "chow" meal? in ~food

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    I cut up a sausage and throw it in a pot of boiling water with salt, after a while I add some pre-cut frozen vegetables and toss in some macaroni. Add some sauce and spices, mix it up and voilà.

    I cut up a sausage and throw it in a pot of boiling water with salt, after a while I add some pre-cut frozen vegetables and toss in some macaroni.

    Add some sauce and spices, mix it up and voilà.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on What's a word from another language that you wish was a thing in English? in ~humanities.languages

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    We have something similar in Macedonian. "Na zdravye" which literally translates to "to health". We say it in the same context as you and in addition after a meal, after a sneeze and etc.

    We have something similar in Macedonian. "Na zdravye" which literally translates to "to health". We say it in the same context as you and in addition after a meal, after a sneeze and etc.

    7 votes

  10. Comment on New trailer for long-delayed Uzumaki anime in ~anime

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    I got to know of Junji Ito with Uzumaki. I loved it. It turned my guts around. I love how he uses "page turn scares", with a little foreshadowing of what's to come at the end of the page and a...

    I got to know of Junji Ito with Uzumaki. I loved it. It turned my guts around. I love how he uses "page turn scares", with a little foreshadowing of what's to come at the end of the page and a gruesome full page drawing when you turn to the other page.

    I read it years ago when I was in highschool. Forgot about Junji for a while and while in college I got into his stories again. I read some every night before bed and got used to his horror. I showed some good shorts to friends and they were telling me how they were still getting chills even days after.

    I was so excited for this adaptation, people were hoping it would be better than the other adaptations with how it was truer to style with the black and white color scheme but I got let down with the constant delays and thought it would never arrive, and here we go, 3+ years later it's coming!

    10 votes