I think it's because they are playing around with the number of reviews you can do. It's normally 20 but I've managed more these last few days. 23 today.
I am using a MacBook Pro. On this machine I also have Vlware Fusion with Windows 7 installed.
Do I install Google drive on the Windows side and also the MacBook side?
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@JourneymanGeek there is a person I work with whose first name is your first and last name together, except !!s/v/j/... and their last name is two more names, the first one 15 characters, the second one four more characters
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@DavidPostill this is what happens when your organization does "DevOps", unfortunately... it's such a silly, silly concept... for things that need to be up 24/7/365 and have excellent stability... yes, it gives you better flexibility for change, but it also makes things sporadically unavailable quite often
so instead of having one huge 8-hour outage window every year, you have dozens of itty bitty couple of minutes outages throughout the year at unpredictable times
my lecture teacher was an American woman in her 50s with a very eruditic background in studying the Japanese language, and the TAs were Japanese 30-somethings women
@ThatBrazilianGuy yes, and it's distal tone... "onegai-simasu" is more like "please give/provide me" but that's a nice idiomatic translation into English
@ThatBrazilianGuy distal tone is "distant" (root word of distal) - that's English way of saying that the particular phrasing there is intended to be polite, respectful and formal, as opposed to direct
there's a separate direct style with different verb conjugations that is used with familiar people who are not in a superior societal position than you
but you don't use the direct style in Japanese in necessarily all the situations you'd use the familiar style in Spanish (does Portuguese have a formal/familiar style too?)
people tend to stick to the distal style more often than not in Japan
@allquixotic Yeah, I am familiar with the idea that in Japanese there is a style to be used with family, one with peers of the same level, one with superiors, etc ettc etc etc
@ThatBrazilianGuy unless you're talking to the Emperor or something, it's typical in modern Japanese to avoid the "honorific" form (even higher, more formal than the distal), so you typically only hear that kind of stuff in movies or government documents
Conjugation of Verb: estar First person ("I"): yo estoy Second person ("you"), familiar: tu estás Second or third person ("you" or "they"), formal if second person: usted está Group including self ("we"): nosotros estamos Plural ("they"), familiar: vosotros estais Plural ("they"), formal: ustedes están
And "você" is informal, for a superior you'd use "o senhor / a senhora", as in "o senhor está / o senhor gostaria de" instead of "você está / você quer". but the verbs behave the same way.
it's exactly the same as if, say, you go to a store and the seller says "would you like a $thing with that, sir" but your friend would say "hey man do you want a $thing"
And you wouldn't use "você" with your boss or teacher, unless you've know them for years.
first name basis is common in all but formal contexts (weddings, laws, courtrooms) here... even among very formal business partners, like a contractor working for the government, you just call people by their first name
the only time that really doesn't hold up in everyday life is during school, you always refer to your teacher by "Mr." or "Ms." or "Dr." their last name
and medical doctors by "Dr." last name
but people with a doctorate degree who are not medical doctors in a working profession usually prefer just their first name, no "Dr."
problem with Lastname-san is that many Western first names are short and many Western last names are long, so calling me by my last name is much more work for the speaker/writer
in Japanese you spell my last name with 6 Katakana characters, so it's 6 mora, even more than the western pronunciation @_@
Ma-ku-na-ma-ra... yuck
I remember this one student in Japanese class who preferred their last name spelled a certain way in Katakana, but the teacher ALWAYS corrected them on their submitted work to what the teacher thought it should be
"Stop correcting my name! I know what my name should be!" he always said
at least now @Mokubai knows how to write his last name in Japanese ;) ^^
I'm sure there are hundreds or thousands of "Jozé" with a "z" and even more bizarre spellings, but if there is an official spelling, sure, I wanna learn
@allquixotic "William" comes from German "Willhelm". The Brazilian name that also comes from "Willhelm" is "Guilherme". "William" and "Guilherme" sounds nothing alike.
ジョン - it's the same mora as じょん but katakana instead of hiragana
@ThatBrazilianGuy but you can see the lexicographic similarity
also in Spanish there's Guillermo
マクナマラ ジョン-san <--- Mokubai's name ;p Literally in mora, Ma-ku-na-ma-ra Jyo-n sa-n
Watasi no namae wa Ma-ku-na-ma-ra Jyo-n desu. 私の名前はジョン・マクナマラです. (Oddly, Google Translate kept the first name first, though you should probably flip the order to maintain traditional last name / first name order)
Heh, I just typo'd a comment to a new user who didn't understand accepting an answer, telling them they can lick the checkmark. Hooray for comment editing
@CanadianLuke No worries, my friend! Rest assure there will come a day when human science will finally succeed in making this world free from Dihydrogen Monoxide!
> The heater was warmed to approximately 700C. The heater block glowed a dull red color, observable with room lights turned off. The ballast tank was filled to 300 torr with oxygen, and fluorine was added until the total pressure was 901 torr. . .
@Mokubai I do. She likes pets in small amounts, dislikes being held for more than a few seconds, and doesn't like when you "put her" places -- she goes where she wants to go, and if you put her somewhere she didn't decide to go on her own, she'll jump down and walk away.
But she follows me up the steps every time I go upstairs, in hopes of receiving treats
in fact, I can rarely use the stairs in either direction without having her follow me
@DavidPostill I think those are displayed on japanese.stackexchange.com because many of its users are language learners who may not know the meaning of a kanji unless they can see it spelled out phonetically
@DavidPostill So that you know how to say the kanji. The kanji itself need you to already know how it is said, the other characters are their proper alphabet, either katagana or hiragana which has a fixed pronunciation. Think of it as someone showing you a picture of a cat and then saying "cat"
yeah, it's like variable binding. except that their written language actually uses those variables regularly
you have to "do all the kanji" in the written language because it's improper for anyone but a third-grade school child to write everything in hiragana (or worse, katakana)
@DavidPostill From what I know, that's somewhat frequent in Japanese. There are 3 alphabets and the Kanji alphabet has literally thousands of characters and some demographies aren't expected to know them all, so sometimes there's hiragana to explain what the kanji are. It's frequent in manga, for instance.
there are only like 40-some Japanese morae (singular: mora, plural: morae) (morae are phonetic diphthongs or tripthongs or vowels) and both hiragana and katakana cover all the morae
Kanji are ideographs - they represent an idea, and have no necessary binding to any particular pronunciation without a context
hiragana and katakana (the simpler characters) are basically the same in principle as our alphabet
Kanji is not an alphabet
the mora in my last name in Japanese transliteration would be: Ma-ku-na-ma-ra. For each of those mora (hyphen-delimited) there's a Katakana or Hiragana character, but you always write Western names in katakana
the nice thing about Japanese mora is that they are always very consistently phonetic... there are no "tricks" with any Japanese phonetic spelling like there are in English
we use a phonetic alphabet but then we have exceptions to the phonetic rules with certain words; Japanese doesn't ever do that
Hmm. So would an "educated" Japanese person know most of the Kanji in the same way an "educated" Brit/American might know many more dictionary "words" in English?
@DavidPostill yes; a well-read scientist or Japanese major (yes, there are Japanese people who are Japanese majors like there are English majors in the US and UK) would know most Kanji
but there are also domain-specific Kanji, just like there are domain-specific words in English
@DavidPostill school children still learning the language are taught the phonetic first, so a second-grader might write the hiragana phonetic first, then later learn the kanji
but much as English natives who are really fluent in the language will read words as a unit rather than each character of the word, fluent Japanese can read "entire" kanji (including all their nuances and subtleties) in milliseconds flat
though to be honest a lot of elderly Japanese struggle to successfully read Kanji in the DPI and physical dimensions of fonts at 10 or 12 point like is typical on the web and in Word documents, for instance
their "feature resolution" of their eyes just isn't good enough to see the difference, especially if two possible different characters both make sense in the context and are very similar in appearance
@DavidPostill those characters are (relatively) simple, so it's probably fairly easy even for the elderly to see that difference with a bit of squinting or moving closer to the screen
the problem is that more complex characters get really small in the feature size, especially on fixed-width fonts
you can see the difference, but the size of the different radical (a radical is like a sub-part of a kanji, where you perform a sort of "radical algebra" to combine different sub-parts into a whole kanji in different orientations and locations) is approximately the size of an English comma
you can probably understand why many Japanese love high-res screens and hate reading blurry or highly-compressed text in video, and also why closed captions in Japanese TV and media are huge in size
@DavidPostill well there are multiple different radicals being used in both kanji, but in 微 and 徴, the "left part" and the "right part" are the same, and even the top bit in the middle are the same; only the bottom-center doohickey (that's not a technical term) is different
each of the bits that are the same would be considered a radical, I think
there are 214 traditional radicals, which might lead you to think "alphabet!" except that their meanings are not really well-respected across different Kanji
it's kind of like you shouldn't associate any meaning with the English characters "th" used together like that -- it really doesn't mean anything, so don't assume anything involving "th" must have any sort of similarity between the words
"the", "those", "hypothalamus" and "Thierry" are completely unrelated
the main unfortunate part about Kanji compared to English words is that, because Kanji are so small and compact and unique, to represent them digitally you have to put each Kanji in its own "character", so Unicode has literally thousands of Kanji just taking up a huge proportion of the character set
imagine if we had to represent each English word as a character!
there are actually input method editors available for most operating systems that let you "type" Kanji as a sequence of radicals (where the order matters, etc.), though, so when you think of it that way, it's not too different from typing words with an alphabet.
but, yeah, most typical Japanese prose uses a mixture of Kanji and phonetic spellings -- certain words simply have no kanji, or are always spelled phonetically... as well as many "connecting" words, like the Japanese equivalents of "of", as well as the conjugation of verb roots
in a full sentence or paragraph you might see one Kanji to every four or five phonetic characters
You can't do that using the GUI tool, but you can using the terminal.
First, if your user has sudo privileges, you must enable its NOPASSWD option. Otherwise, sudo will ask for a password even when you don't have one, and won't accept an empty password.
To do so, open the sudoers configuration...
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do you think that JMG feels like one of those parents who goes away for the weekend and the kids put on facebook they are having a party and 1000 people turn up, cause a million quids worth of damage and get the army deployed to break it up?
I'll give you a hint. I need the spots on G clamps to hold the long hard wood in place all night so it doesn't flop if the bed moves while the other thing is balanced on top of the wood
I am using a MacBook Pro. On this machine I also have Vlware Fusion with Windows 7 installed.
Do I install Google drive on the Windows side and also the MacBook side?
I am trying to load the First Post Reviews on SuperUser and getting the following repeatable error:
With the following errors showing in the Developer Tools tab:
Is this related to yesterday's announcement "SQL Server 2016 RTM Upgrade - June 5th, 2016", or is there a new issue?
Note: The n...
You can't do that using the GUI tool, but you can using the terminal.
First, if your user has sudo privileges, you must enable its NOPASSWD option. Otherwise, sudo will ask for a password even when you don't have one, and won't accept an empty password.
To do so, open the sudoers configuration...
