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Yes, they are different from English. In English you say "one herd of cattle", "two herds of cattle", and so on. You just need to know a plural of "herd" and the regular numbers. In Japanese the numbers themse
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>Ctrl+F "tab groups" >Phrase not found Guess I'm still staying on v56...
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Why not strings? For two different strings A and B it's trivial to build one that is between them in alphabetic order.
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There are so many misconceptions in this post, I have to wonder if this isn't some sort of an elaborate troll. >If I'm using GIMP to edit something, the source file is never going to be XCF. What makes you think the source file
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Since GIMP 2.8 came out 5 years ago and you still haven't got used to it, you must have been using it very occasionally, so hopefully it didn't waste too much of your time. However it's a big win for people who use any non-tr
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Well, I can only tell what I saw with my own eyes. I went to a town named Tomioka last year to see the newly reopened train station. I think it's about 10 km from Dai-ichi plant. The evacuation order was lifted in March 2017. Anyway, t
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They did a great job with 2.8 UI. Or are you one of these people who still can't get over the Save/Export thing?
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Interestingly, they planned to lift the evacuation order like 5 years ago for a large part of the zone. But the local government asked to postpone it by 4 years so that there is time to rebuild the infrastructure, which was completely was
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Sad. He did the right thing reporting Manning and I'd do the same thing if I was him.
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There needs to be an acceptable alternative for everyone to migrate to. The general public won't move to the likes of voat or imzy (which apparently already shut down).
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Just today I was trying to install a new version of Postgres on Windows. For some reason they decided to detect system language and print all error messages in Russian... in the wrong encoding, so it looked like lorem ipsum written in Wingd
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In a mountainous area like NZ, a car might have to take some sort of serpentine road to reach the destination while this thing would fly in a straight line, thus saving energy even if it's less efficient. However such scenarios are cer
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I live in the most soviet country of them all, and I have never seen this lift design even in the dingiest khrushchyovkas. Seems incredibly unsafe!
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Now this is how you deal with government censorship. Take note, Github, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter et. al.
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There probably are (something like Sri-Lanka/India or Guatemala/Mexico), but even if there aren't, what is this supposed to indicate? Yes, USA has strong film industry, fueled by its strong economy and large population. Ameri
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>Yet, none of this content ever leaves the country. And whose fault is this? People enjoy Japanese media all over the world despite the language barrier. French media used to be very popular in my country, like for example Louis de Funès
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>Visiting Strasbourg (in Alsace, France), people's surnames, street and place names, and the local cuisine are all German, but nobody speaks a word of it. Maybe they don't speak it normally, but I'm pretty sure a lot of pe
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And all of this would have precisely zero effect if Democrats managed to put up a candidate who isn't terrible enough to lose to Trump. US elections isn't the only ones they were trying to influence. In France, they went all in on
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IME very often the image in question is already unreachable from the page Google found it on (because of stuff like pagination). This button was a lifesaver.
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Hint: she just so happened to be a woman. Interesting how that happens every time one of these Internet mobs heats up. See also Justine Sacco, and many others.
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Circumcision?
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Good luck growing to 1 billion users in California.
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Just saying, but GIMP had this for years with Liquid Rescale plugin (I think before even Photoshop): http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/
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JAL is the single worst airline website I've ever used. It had the looks and responsiveness of something out of 1998. Apparently they were planning to renovate it when I was booking a ticket, so they had a big warning of 15 day (!) dow
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>bed How fancy, must be a Western-style room. In a Japanese-style room you get nothing but a mattress.
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In late USSR and 90s Russia, smuggled cigarettes were absolutely a thing.
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Every train doesn't have to stop at all 27 stops. You can run a super-express that stops at 5 stops every 30 minutes, an express that stops at 10 stops every hour and a regular service that stops at every station every 2 hours. The sch
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RIP bato.to as well.
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I was getting this quite regularly (can confirm that I'm not a robot). It would show the regular captcha asking you to identify traffic signs and stuff, but no matter what you do, it just wouldn't end. Good to know it was just Goo
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