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If nothing else, the fact that many people write anything with ink and brush helps to sustain the calligraphy culture. Nowadays, to many (if not most) of them the new year kakizome…

Various businesses provide paid service called 見守りサービス to have someone (or a machine) check up on you. The idea is to detect health emergencies early enough and act on getting help…

It looks like this is what it does essentially: let luminance = (0.2126 * avg_r as f32 + 0.7152 * avg_g as f32 + 0.0722 * avg_b as f32) as u8; let character = match luminance { 0..…

There has been an RFC about it (for years). "Remove .m. subdomain, serve mobile and desktop variants through the same URL" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214998

From WordNet: > 1. skittish, flighty, spooky, nervous -- (unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)) (I didn't know the word skittish, and I figured this might help others, to…

> 自作自演 (jisakujien ; self-made self-staged ; for example, used for the act of creating a staged situation and then acting as if it were genuine) The original meaning was a screenwr…

> (or whatever they are called these days, Google for Work?) Gmail is currently branded as part of Google Workspace, and shows the Workspace logo upon sign in. It probably has been…

I don't think any fork was deleted. 3.5k forks as of now vs 3.4k forks in January: https://web.archive.org/web/20220129022012/https://github.co... Many people won't notice some of …

A lot of the cherry trees planted in Japan are clones, which causes synchronicity - the cherry trees in an area are grafted from a single, best tree found there, and thus bloom at …