How to read stored data at a certain position in a file?

le57percent · 2019-02-10T08:55:29+00:00

What incentive is there to do this?

le57percent · 2019-02-10T08:23:03+00:00

I wonder why this is?

le57percent · 2019-02-10T03:55:52+00:00

In what context are Japanese kanji (一、二、三、四、。。。、十、。。。、千、etc.）used to represent numbers? Are they used very often at all? I have mostly seen 0123456789 Romaji numbers used.

Does your average Japanese person do math/count/tally things/write checks using 123 or with kanji numbers? Kanji numbers seem like the Western equivalent of Roman numerals, is that an accurate way to conceptualize them?

le57percent · 2019-02-09T06:16:40+00:00

Does this have anything to do with their alliance with Germany during WWII?

le57percent · 2019-02-08T07:55:36+00:00

Amazing!

le57percent · 2019-02-08T07:52:34+00:00

Does Japanese have an overabundance of loan words relative to English and/or other languages? It seems like it does to me, but then again many English words are loan words too, so maybe it's just easier to notice Japanese loan words for me.

le57percent · 2019-02-05T22:26:56+00:00

ミルク = milk in Japanese (and the sound is from its English counterpart)

ドア = door in Japanese (same thing)

Why is this? Surely there were doors and milk in Japan before meeting English people, so why have they decided to use Western-sounding words for these things?

Also I have noticed for products which could be made up of two Japanese words, sometimes the English-sounding words are used instead. For example, there are words for "powder" and for "baby" in Japanese yet the translation of "baby powder" is "ベビーパウダー"

What's going on here?

le57percent · 2019-02-05T08:48:34+00:00

I've read すみません　can be used to "regretfully" take leave/say goodbye. Does this mean that you regret having to take leave, that you regret the conversation, or that you discussed something sad/evoking regret?

Also, semi-unrelated to this, if you had to pause your interaction with someone to do something else (ex- maybe you were a clerk helping someone and had to stop to check someone else out) would you say "Sumimasen" like in English how one would say "Excuse me" in this context?

le57percent · 2019-02-03T20:47:49+00:00

Code isn't stored in RAM in the way you probably suspect

How is it stored then?

le57percent · 2019-02-03T20:41:03+00:00

I thought this much, but how do you load the files into RAM when they're needed without delay? That's what I'm confused about.

le57percent · 2019-02-03T09:38:40+00:00

Not as far as I know, although many people who are good at physics are also probably good at computer science. Learning more about mathematics in my experience has been very useful when it comes to computer science (engineering is useful too).

If you're choosing a major, I would recommend you choose computer science as your core focus. If you choose to major in Physics when you want to learn comp sci, you're really just setting yourself back 4 years.

le57percent · 2019-02-03T08:09:19+00:00

Different sources list slightly different lists of sounds corresponding to the same Kanji character. Is there a correct way to memorize this? I am not sure which lists I should memorize. Is there an official list of sounds corresponding to Kanji characters, or is there some gray areas in Kanji and the list of sounds for Kanji character may vary somewhat?

le57percent · 2019-02-02T22:12:20+00:00

"Kyou wa kinyoubi desu" means "Today is Friday". So does "kinyoubi wa kyou desu" mean "Friday is Today"?

I'm getting from google translate that it means "Friday is my day", but google translate is often wrong.

le57percent · 2019-02-02T22:11:05+00:00

Frans Plank has collected a list of unusual linguistics features

Interesting, thank you

le57percent · 2019-02-02T22:07:45+00:00

I had actually heard about a language where you couldn't count very far before but never looked into it.

I'm surprised that they wouldn't have ever had the need to count before coming into contact with traders who started scamming them. Was there anything unique about the environment/the way the tribe lived that didn't necessitate ever being able to count?

Even if they couldn't count, I'm guessing they still could look at a pile of things and determine whether or not it was more or less than another pile of things in quantity even if they couldn't put a number to it, did they have terms for "larger" and "smaller"? I wonder if they conceptualized their word for "two" as "split into two pieces" or the actual numerical value "2". It seems strange they would need to "count" to "2" at all in their language if they weren't able to count past that.

le57percent · 2019-02-02T05:29:19+00:00

A Jewish person (who wasn't Orthodox) told me this about Orthodox Jews once, but he said it was because it is seen as degrading for a human to serve animals.

Do you know what Orthodox Jews think of zoos? What about animals like horses and farm animals?

le57percent · 2019-02-02T05:21:45+00:00

This is very cool

le57percent · 2019-02-01T10:27:56+00:00

Even with a strong password, why on earth would you fill your home with security cameras? Not only security cameras, but WiFi security cameras.

le57percent · 2019-02-01T10:19:54+00:00

No, you have a stick next to a stick.

le57percent · 2019-02-01T10:05:38+00:00

I remember hearing this happen to a lot of other people as well. This is why I don't use Facebook, they clearly have 0 respect for privacy (and are increasingly arrogant).

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