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7:00 AM
oh yeah, <3 xargs
 
if it does more harm than good, so be it.
OP made the choice to post here instead of teach himself.
The blame rests on him.
 
teach themself how though?
 
@edwinksl what harm and good do you refer to ?
 
they asked for ideas
 
Furthermore, it might be possible that OP takes what we give him, and then adapts and improves on it.
 
7:01 AM
nice answer @Serg
 
@Serg NAA?
 
Besides, OP at least acknowledges that this is homework and they want ideas, not exact solution.
OP : Can you help me on ideas on how I can do this?

My answer: Since this is pretty much a homework question, I won't give exact answer. However, here's some ideas that may lead you to solution.
 
@Serg that should have been more obvious in the question. that elder geek had to call OP out on it doesn't look good
 
That's an issue. We don't give ideas here. We provide concrete solutions.
 
7:02 AM
I think I answer pretty close
 
@KazWolfe close as too broad , be my guest
 
Hell, POB applies here too.
I can think of a lot of ways to do this.
 
that doesn't make it POB
 
eh, there are many differing ways to do one thing, and each are roughly the same and are roughly chosen on opinion (xargs is better than loops)
 
7:05 AM
"how can I do x" can't possibly be just a matter of opinion. There may be multiple ways but that doesn't mean they are only true/right for those who "agree"
 
eh, still. it's not exactly the best question as worded
 
i think it would be a win-win situation if whoever is interested in teaching OP set up a chatroom and teach OP accordingly and impart understanding
 
however, whether we should answer homework questions is a matter of opinion that we could debate all day ; )
 
I can try editing out the fluff to provide a problem with a clear path to the solution...
 
I would leave it, it's an OK question
 
7:07 AM
and, again, ignore the fact that it's homework altogether
 
I think that would be wrongly discarding information
 
Again, imo, it's not relevant information.
 
I got a DV here , Do you guys find any problem in my ans ? askubuntu.com/a/824101/497359
 
I'm certain there are dissenting opinions (well duh, ofc), but we still shouldn't say "no" or "you don't get a real answer" because homework. We're not a forum.
 
shrug I believe in dealing with what is in front of you in the way most appropriate.
 
7:09 AM
@SeverusTux looks okay to me. Might have been a drive-by or a low user trying to boost their answer
 
I think if you bend what's in front of you to match what you want to do to it, you should do so with care and caution and self-criticism
 
Why do people make it so hard?
0
A: How can I check the version of Google Chrome without it upgrading itself without asking me?

Nathan OsmanJust type this into the address bar: javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent)

 
@SeverusTux I think because you parse ls
 
@Zanna whats the problem in that ? please enlighten me
 
where's that question on why rm $(ls) is a bad bad bad idea? but idk awk...
this explains ^
 
7:13 AM
@SeverusTux i have a folder named /*
 
Homework or not homework , is not really relevant. Any other text processing or script question could be potentially a homework in disguise. Just because question is simplistic to us , it doesn't mean it's automatically homework. What counts is whether or not people put in effort into their research. This guy didn't, but at least he knows what sort of tools to use. He just have to google it. Again, we are also not required to critique people for asking help on homework
but at least we can give a push in right direction
 
Oh.mg, I get it . @KazWolfe
 
@KazWolfe what could possibly be in it i wonder
 
@SeverusTux in filenames there's allowed any character, so if you have newline there, ls output will be treated as two lines rather than one
 
today's stats... 92 files edited, 1700 lines of code changed. this is gonna be a good commit
@edwinksl it's an example.
 
7:15 AM
@KazWolfe disappointing. i thought you had such a directory for real
 
@edwinksl can't have / at all.
but, you could have * or ~, which could cause... problems.
 
@edwinksl it's impossible to have '/' in directory names, prohibited because Unix standards and shiz
 
@Serg i meant just the * part
 
that one is possible
 
oh. i actually do have that.
 
7:17 AM
o.O
 
DIR:/xieerqi|01:16|skolodya@ubuntu:
$ mkdir '*'

DIR:/xieerqi|01:16|skolodya@ubuntu:
$ cd '*'

DIR:/*|01:17|skolodya@ubuntu:
$ pwd
/home/xieerqi/*
 
music folder.
* contains symlinks to everything
because i'm too hipster to use music managers.
i also do have a couple in some code projects for reasons
 
it's also possible @SeverusTux that the filenames have things that rm might interpret as options... there could be a file named -rf * in theory!
 
@Zanna You are right, I removed that answer .
 
if I remember rightly, steeldriver wrote an answer to that rm $(ls) question that got 18 upvotes, and deleted it.... THAT'S discipline
 
7:20 AM
Anybody wants to befriend me on gitlab or something ?
 
@Zanna are you saying steeldriver made a mistake??? who would have guessed
 
@Serg what nationality is that last name?
Seems eastern european or possibly even russian...
 
0
Q: How to change default boot partition?

ChrisI installed Antergos on my laptop, then installed Ubuntu after that. Ubuntu detected that I had another Linux installed, so it added Antergos to its grub menu. Every time I boot up, grub is loaded from the Ubuntu partition. How can I make the other grub file the default one? My partitions are: ...

 
@KazWolfe ukrainian
 
@edwinksl no, they didn't, but someone wrote a better answer
 
7:22 AM
ah. that makes sense.
 
I'm surprised you didn't notice that I'm ukrainian @KazWolfe because @edwinksl and @Zacharee1 joke about that all the time :p
 
i've never seen that.
 
Anyone know how MJPEG compares to H.264 when it comes to decoding speed?
 
@Serg well i first thought you were russian xD that was my bad
 
and i'm half-hungarian.
 
7:23 AM
@Zanna yup, discipline and "doing the right thing" I had to delete one that had like 5 - 6 upvotes once
 
Yeah :)
 
@Serg i don't seem to find an option to follow people in gitlab
 
@edwinksl every slavic person automatically becomes Russian in the US
 
OH GOD
I just found Weebl again.
Screw StrongSwan provisioning. My night is rescheduled.
 
what is Weebl ?
 
Ah, that's the Narwals guy
 
@Serg Da.
 
@Serg oh lord what did i just watch
 
awesome.
you watched awesome.
he has some amazing things actually
 
Well, since we're talking about Russians here . . .
 
7:28 AM
badger badger badger badger badger badger
omg
 
@Serg Da.
 
Lenin's line is the best . . . uh . . .spoilers . . .
 
@Serg da
 
@edwinksl Da.
 
ДА ! :D
 
7:32 AM
i also learned "cyka blyat" from my moba days
 
Dedicated to all engineering majors in the whole world ^
Also tangentially related to our Russian topic . . .
 
@Serg this is way too true
well from the engineer side
 
:D yup , it is
 
construction crews hate engineers who hate architects.
though we (engineers) get the stylish white hats
though architects also wear white hard hats, so... yeah.
IT engineers/consultants should stick with blue. It's a good color.
 
7:42 AM
@KazWolfe engineers also hate managers who have no idea that their requirements are unrealistic
 
@Serg as someone who worked both in networking and software engineering... oh my god.
idiot middle management/clients are the worst things ever.
urgh. too many daisy-chained USB hubs.
I should probably fix that.
 
@Serg russian dashcams are hilarious
 
@edwinksl To be perfectly honest, watching those is alright, but being in passengers sit is not as fun. After being spoiled by american relatively tame traffic , I thought we're gonna crash every time I sat into a car in Ukraine. And potholes. The drive from airport to my hometown was just . . . . pizdets
 
@Serg hahaha i have heard that p word before
 
@KazWolfe did you say , daizy chaining USB hubs ?
 
7:47 AM
i need to move to russia. it looks so fun from the break/fix/drink/repeat side
but then i remember government
 
and i'm not doing a snowden
 
@Serg Would that actually work? Is there some sort of limit to how many you can have? I'd expect so.
@Zanna Nope, that's a comment, really. Fixed it for ya
 
@terdon from my interface techniques i know there is a limit to amount of USB connections , but i forget what it is. Something in the range of like 256 or so
 
7:52 AM
@terdon thank you :)
 
Woah! That high?
@Zanna np
 
@KazWolfe I've watched all videos by that guy :)
@terdon probably theoretical maximum , not practical
 
@Serg 127 apparently from some random forum post i saw
 
Actually, let me look up my notes . . .
 
@Serg What would the difference be?
 
7:54 AM
MORE USB DEVICES
I NEED 1024 ON ONE COMPUTER
 
I'm reading about GNU make and it seems so complicated
 
And would there be issue (attenuation or whatever) before reaching the max? If they're all connected through the same single port on the machine, I would expect to have serious bandwidth problems long before hitting max.
 
@terdon or we could just do an experiment... for science!
 
Please do. Then tell me about it :)
 
i only have 2 hubs :(
 
7:56 AM
@Zanna what's complicated about it?
 
@edwinksl Da
@JamesTobin I'd guess makefiles and management of targets, mostly.
As well as cross-platform setups, especially when not using an autogenerated makefile
 
@KazWolfe i wish i know cyrillic
 
like compiling them or making them or what?
 
@terdon in practice all of those usbs wouldn't have enough power from root hub
 
@edwinksl Why learn a real language?
There are lots of good weird linguistic fake languages that are fun
 
8:00 AM
@KazWolfe it is useful in games when i have to insult people ;p
 
@edwinksl you are correct, 127 devices, because 2^7-1 IDs for each device possible
 
oh wow. stallman and GNU actually truly believe in the "it's really GNU/Linux" thing.
that is... sad.
 
Now, if each device draws 0.1mA , which is a standard minimum requirement, then it's . . . 12.7 A of current at max.
I doubt PC could provide that much
 
now if RMS could just stop taking credit for being one of the backers of the groups that made GCC which enabled Linux to work (and, well, code contributions under the GPL), that'd be greeeeaaaat.
 
8:04 AM
@JamesTobin hehe I've been trying to download the manual from ftp.gnu.org using ftp (I love using ftp) so I can wc -l it but I can't seem to find it on the server... let's just say it would be a very big number
 
My bot software core isn't called JetBrains/Python/WolfCore, for god's sake.
 
@KazWolfe how so? I agree with them...
 
@Zanna you cant use apt?
 
8:05 AM
@NathanOsman oh crap skynet is here
 
i'm not calling my code GNU/WolfCore, even though it's released under the GPL and uses some components made with the GCC.
 
@JamesTobin to get a pdf manual? I don't think so
 
that is dumb.
 
oh
that's what you want? ok
 
Morning all
 
8:07 AM
@KazWolfe I'm not even reading that, the tone offends me. I will never agree with anyone whose argument rests on "respect the authority of x"
 
> Umm, this discussion has gone on quite long enough, thank you very much.
>
> It doesn’t really _matter_ what people call Linux, as long as credit is given where credit is due (on both sides). Personally, I’ll very much continue to call it “Linux”
Torvalds.
or...
 
@KazWolfe Um Cyrillic isn't a language.
 
> Proponents of the term “Linux” argue it’s a mistake to focus only on GNU, as the average distribution contains software from a variety of organizations and could be called Mozilla/KDE/Apache/X.org/GNU/Linux with similar justification.
i know! If GNU gets their name in, let's add the name of every single contributor to the linux project!
For the first time ever, the name of an OS will take up more space than the OS itself!
lots of good counter-arguments that don't use offensive witty language
 
nah I don't buy
justfication from authority, justification from dictionary etc no quarter from here
 
Okay then... I henceforth declare that Linux must be called:

<slash-delimited list of every contributor to anything that runs on linux ever>/GNU/Linux
 
8:13 AM
shrug do what you like, just don't slag off RMS for that on my watch ;)
 
By calling it just GNU/Linux, you're pushing the very same culture that GNU is trying to oppose, ironically.
(and no, linux is a fully-fledged operating system)
GNU can call Hurd GNU/Hurd OS because they made it.
GNU was big. I'm not denying that. RMS did something amazing. Again, fact. But he shouldn't be forcing credit into an OSS project that could technically stand without GNU.
brb making BSD/Linux
 
I broke gitlab
the word "indicator" takes forever to search
 
tl;dr: drops mic, yells at self because mics are expensive and i'm the crew yelling at actors to not drop mics.
 
I got 502 just now
 
@Zanna Not really, actually. I'll admit it was a poor choice of words, but the argument there is "He wrote it, he gets to name it. Respect his right to name his stuff just like we respect your right to name your stuff". More of an appeal to authorship than authority.
 
8:18 AM
> Considering Linus started Linux and GNU applications need to be ported to Linux. I'll still consider GNU the secondary contributor. So Linux should come first. Not only that, but I still lack any reason to believe GNU belongs in the name.
 
GNU tools are used on HP-UX or Solaris, and ain't nobody is barking about that
 
@Serg GNU/HP-UX! GNU/Solaris!
 
I thought solaris used its own flavour...
 
@JourneymanGeek GNU TOUCHED IT! IT'S GNU/Solaris NOW!
 
8:22 AM
@terdon ok.
 
If the GNU Project themselves wrote >50% of the code, and were the project maintainers and managers, I'd be fine with GNU/Linux. Neither of these are true.
 
ah. I've not touched sloraris since 10
and the only reason I'd use it is nostalgia for CDE
oh and zfs
 
@SeverusTux Because i) pretty much anything is faster than a shell loop. Any dedicated programming language will be faster almost by default. ii) Arronical's shell answer iterates over each file, checks whether it matches and then deletes. The grep approach of perl is much more efficient. Here's a test with a few thousand files:
$ touch file.{01..64}.name.{00001..01000}.end
$ ls | wc
  64000   64000 1472000
$ time for f in ./* ; do file="${f%.*}"; if [[ $((10#${file##*.} % 12)) -ne 0 ]]; then rm "$f"; fi; done

real	2m44.258s
user	0m9.183s
sys	1m7.647s
$ touch file.{01..64}.name.{00001..01000}.end
$ time perl -e 'unlink grep{/(\d+)\.end/ && $1 % 12 != 0}@ARGV;' *

real	0m0.610s
user	0m0.317s
sys	0m0.290s
 
The difference is enormous as you can see.
 
8:24 AM
@terdon woah!!
 
@terdon there was relevant post about it on U&L
 
@Zanna Shell is slow
@Serg Loops?
Oh, and bash is even slower. It's not a fast shell.
 
@terdon @SeverusTux this one
25
Q: Is there something wrong with my script or is Bash much slower than Python?

edward torvaldsI was testing the speed of Bash and Python by running a loop 1 billion times. $ cat python.py #!/bin/python # python v3.5 i=0; while i<=1000000000: i=i+1; Bash code: $ cat bash2.sh #!/bin/bash # bash v4.3 i=0 while [[ $i -le 1000000000 ]] do let i++ done Using the time command I found o...

 
Ah, yes
Also:
87
Q: Why is using a shell loop to process text considered bad practice?

cuonglmIs using a while loop to process text generally considered bad practice in POSIX shells? As Stéphane Chazelas pointed out, some of the reasons for not using shell loop are conceptual, reliability, legibility, performance and security. This answer explains the reliability and legibility aspects:...

 
Quietly sobs at the shame of using shell for text processing ;)
 
8:29 AM
also sobs
 
Eh, i was guilty of it too, but then i started doing AWK . . . .
 
forgot completely what I was doing now, probably making some foolish loop...
 
i wish gitlab allowed filtering search by number of stars
 
hehe
I wish for SE features everywhere else
 
I'm slowly venturing into the world of python, so should hopefully start being able to do the odd answer with that soon.
 
8:35 AM
@Arronical Well, not in that answer you weren't. You were using the shell for file management which is a far more reasonable thing to do.
 
Oh, awesome ! @Arronical you'll love it. Python is amazing. Feel free to ask for help any time.
 
Bah humbug. I'm still not convinced that the various great things about python outweigh the absurdity of significant whitespace.
 
Anybody wanna form a slack team ? for whatever and just because ?
omigosh, i just reset password to my old slack account i used in microcontrollers class and stuff . So mush code, so mush memoriez
 
@Serg what are you going to call it
 
8:48 AM
@edwinksl butts and butters
 
>_>
 
because creativity . . .i mean lack thereof
 
@terdon you just want a flamewar -_-
No other reason you would say that, when python is clearly the supreme programming language.
 
Maybe not supreme, but definitelly a bad-a$$ language
I love it
 
How to force removal of the offending package in these cases? askubuntu.com/questions/824308/…
 
8:53 AM
@Serg Cheers chap, very kind.
 
@StefanoPalazzo :P
 
@Zanna hmm not sure, i forgot if that is OT or not :p
 
It's a great language, no argument there. I'm just still not used to the idea of whitespace having meaning. If we could do away with that, I'd be happy.
 
@edwinksl I think it's "development version" territory (Im slowly getting this!!)
 
@terdon try typing "from __future__ import braces" in an interactive interpreter
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8:54 AM
I just don't see any benefit whatsoever to it and it means I can't paste my scripts into the python interpreter and is just a general pain.
@StefanoPalazzo Oh?
And then I can use braces instead of indentation?
 
who knows...
 
haha
 
Awww, you do, you do!
Tell me!
 
try it :)
 
@terdon prototyping
 
8:55 AM
Will I need to add braces though or can I just copy/paste code into the interpreter?
The interpreter is a great feature but, for me, is broken if I need to copy line by line.
 
Don't get your hopes up too much though (:
 
@StefanoPalazzo lovely :)
 
C has significant whitespace too. The compiler just doesn't know about it
 
Linus sees them . . .if it's kernel code
 
$ python3 -c 'from __future__ import braces'
  File "<string>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
:P
 
8:59 AM
Awwww :(
@StefanoPalazzo Say what?
 
@terdon whitespaces remove the need for {}. It means you get more lines with code on your screen since people tend to put { and } on a line each.
 
if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
    goto fail;
    goto fail;
 
more code on screen is better :=D
 
the last indentation is pretty significant
 
@StefanoPalazzo Ah, yes, OK.
 
9:01 AM
more screen on code is better . . .
especially if it's dual screen
 
Yes, that is a valid point. Just not enough :P
 
"Since there are no begin/end brackets there cannot be a disagreement between grouping perceived by the parser and the human reader."
Guido van Rossum (c)
 
But there sure is a lot of disagreement about tabs vs spaces
 
"Many coding styles place begin/end brackets on a line by themself. This makes programs considerably longer and wastes valuable screen space, making it harder to get a good overview of a program."
Same dutch dude (c)
 
@Serg Not in python there isn't. Pretty much everyone uses 4 spaces.
 
9:05 AM
@Serg not really. 4 spaces.
 
For the most part, yes, because PEP8 standard. Technically it's a disagreement between those who follow PEP8 and those who don't
Oh, and . . .go team spaces , by the way
 
There are people who, errr, don't follow pep8? O.O
Where are they? I would like to "talk" to them.
 
Meanwhile . . . gitlab is pretty @_@
This is interesting - pdfgrep gitlab.com/pdfgrep/pdfgrep.git
 
@StefanoPalazzo I cheat. I've set my tab to be 4 spaces
 
@Serg those that do not follow PEP8 are not python coders :-)
 
9:15 AM
@Rinzwind nah, they're just n00bs who don;t know about the standard yet
OK, i'm gonna go now . . . i need sleep
 
No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim ("no Scotsman would do such a thing"), rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing"; i.e., those who perform that action are not part of our group and thus criticism of that action is not criticism of the group). == Examples... ==
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Like it.
See you Serg
 
yessir
 
9:28 AM
@terdon wow! That is a huge difference. I didn't know bash is this slow.
 
@SeverusTux All shells are slow when looping.
And bash is one of the slowest.
 
Only when it comes to looping ? or is it just slow everywhere ?
 
Everywhere. But loops are a good example:
$ time bash -c 'for i in $(seq 1 1000000); do true; done'

real	0m1.877s
user	0m1.843s
sys	0m0.037s
$ time dash -c 'for i in $(seq 1 1000000); do true; done'

real	0m0.304s
user	0m0.293s
sys	0m0.017s
$ time perl -e 'for $i  (1..1000000){true}'

real	0m0.022s
user	0m0.020s
sys	0m0.003s
That is, after all, the first bug listed in bash:
$ man bash | grep -A1 BUGS
BUGS
       It's too big and too slow.
 
morning
 
Oh.. So, programming is better :)
 
9:34 AM
Much
 
@Byte good Morning :)
 
in /dev/chat, Jun 25 '15 at 14:34, by terdon
If you're writing data parsers in shell, and are not forced to because of a limited toolset, you deserve what you get.
 
9:49 AM
0
Q: battery use after shutdown in ubuntu

Naveen KumarSir when I'm going to setting option and click shutdown button it will shutdown but after some time I open that the battery become used I think it was not properly shutdown any thing else I have to do??

 
just reading the U&L newsletter... you are in it @terdon :)
heyyy just got a Necromancer badge ^_^ that's always fun
 
10:19 AM
why doesn't this return anything cat etc/shells
i forgot the space... duh
 
@Zanna I am? I don't actually get the newsletter :)
Link?
 
you also have the tersest answer here I think, unsurprisingly unix.stackexchange.com/questions/308631/…
 
@Zanna Nah, I haven't answered that one. Others did a fine job before me.
 
oh sorry wrong one
I have all the tabs open
I meant the one about r e m o v i n g e x c e s s s p a c e s b e t w e e n l e t t e r s
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Q: A script that deletes extra spaces between letters in text

lloowenI have a text document that has a load of text which has an extra space added after every letter! Example: T h e b o o k a l s o h a s a n a n a l y t i c a l p u r p o s e w h i c h i s m o r e i m p o r t a n t… Visually: T␣h␣e␣␣b␣o␣o␣k␣␣a␣l␣s␣o␣␣h␣a␣s␣␣a␣n␣␣a␣n␣a␣l␣y␣t␣i␣c␣a␣l␣␣...

 
Oh yeah, that was fun, but I didn't answer that one either :) I just edited one of the answers
 
10:33 AM
so you did, I can't read
probably because of all the spaces
 
10:57 AM
1
Q: How do I delete a tag in Hamster Time Tracking?

orschiroIs there a possibility to delete a tag in Hamster Time Tracking? I went through all graphical menus but couldn't find any option. The closest one is the following but it doesn't list my own tags:

answer: kill a hamster?
 
@Rinzwind yeah I think the newer version is fixed. I remember being able to mess with the tags.
 
It's really hot here! I love it when the summer doesn't want to end, it feels with me :)
 
11:30 AM
0
Q: Configure SSSD (sudo and dyndns_update) with realmd

dprI'm trying to join a Ubuntu 16.04 to a Windows domain (active directory) using realmd + sssd. Basically I was following this post which worked pretty well and I was able to join my server and could successfully authenticate as AD user. However there are two pieces missing in the integration: Re...

 
11:50 AM
 
Can anyone say "trainwreck" askubuntu.com/q/824356/274320
@Zanna @yourcomment ah
 
oh dear...
hah someone answered the stupid python question with a stupid answer that misunderstands the stupid question and got an upvote
SNAFU
 
@Zanna It's meant to be the hottest September day in the UK for 50 years today. We've currently got a beast of a thunderstorm in the shire.
 
it's absolutely baking ^_^ I love it
 
done
 
thank you kindly
 
12:19 PM
Could I trouble you for another? askubuntu.com/questions/284176/…
hmm not sure about that one...
maybe I'm getting overzealous on the janitorial front
 
12:32 PM
A heads-up - I have been trying to clean up questions relating to the c-state bug and voted on a bunch of them as dupes. If you see anything about Bay Trail/random freezes etc in the CV queue, please consider reading the answer to the dupe target question which has a list of affected processors. If you know of any more processors or devices that have them, please add them to the list.
 
>_> I wonder if that has anything to do with the... 2 bay trail NUCs I had die ;p
 
good morning!!
 
bom dia @IanC
 
tudo bem @Zanna? :)
 
@JourneymanGeek I just read a rant answer about Bay Trail with 2 upvotes... my machine is really tricky... it does some especially funky stuff if I forget to blacklist certain modules...
@IanC tranquilo! como vai?
 
12:41 PM
@Zanna I had two die runing linux, the distributor just shrugs and hands me a new one since its under warranty
 
Are we talking Portuguese now?
 
the replacement's cherry trail and its been mostly fine
 
@Zanna tranquilo também! Just got home from work, a bit stressing last hours but in the end all went fine
 
@ByteCommander fala Portugues?
 
eh, english please
 
12:42 PM
sorry :)
 
You don't see @jokerdino and I breaking into tamil (much) do you? ;p
 
ignosce me, et ego loquar anglicus
latin is so pretty, but I've no clue how it works
 
dei. angilathla paasala naa nadakarthu vaarai ;)
 
thats "forgive me, I'll speak english" in latin by the way, at least that's what google says haha
is that dutch?
 
I said in bad transliteration, something like "Speak english, or else"
Tamil.
If you don't speak english, something else will happen, literally translated
 
12:46 PM
I never heard about Tamil, where do you live?
indo?
 
Singapore, but its a language spoken in south india and parts of sri lanka. There's a fair population of indians in singapore and malaysia, traditionally from those parts
 
cool, but is it the official language there?
or is it like on morocco, where there's french (official) and a mixture of arabic and french (unofficial but most people speak it)
 
@Zanna If "fala" means "Do you speak" then no. But I learned Spanish so I understand a bit of what you write :)
 
@JourneymanGeek I am all for breaking down the dominance of English ;) But I apologise for my rudeness
 
@Zanna its the principle of it. Some folks try to use it as an excuse to break rules. So typically unless its for a short period of time, or a joke, I tend to remind people to stick to english ;p
unless of course its a language site
@IanC one of 4, along with english, mandarin chinese and malay
 

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