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The chromaticity diagram is basically a straight line between 640nm (red) and 545nm (green), so anything in between (including pure yellow around 570nm) can be reproduced with a li…

It uses nonphysical "imaginary" primaries that have meaning within the coordinate system but not within the human perceptual system.

How did I know it was going to be `nvm` before I clicked?

The Australian-Vietnamese continuum is well-explained by Australia being the geographically nearest region which can supply native English language teachers to English language lea…

Those seem like standard needs for any kind of CRUD app, so I would call this approach pretty useful. Currently I do something similar by keeping a private primary uuidv7 key with …

Could this be used in reverse to correct for color vision disorders, e.g. by punching down greens and blues and punching up reds into the outer range of the P3 gamut?

I don't think R&T will ever ship at this point, since the browser vendors are apparently unwilling to absorb the complexity that would be required to add new primitive types with v…

No, they run a headless neovim process in the background and sync its state with vscode

They'd need some very big RTGs to last that long, and I don't think we manufacture plutonium at the necessary volumes for that anymore.

of course this created an interoperability nightmare with third party libraries, which irrevocably forked Google's whole JS ecosystem from the community's 20 years ago and turned t…

No, once the epiphyseal plates close further growth of long bones is impossible. Only intervention during puberty can influence final adult height.

The Japanese equivalent to emoticons are 顔文字 kaomoji , "face characters", and will be familiar as the horizontal ^_^ and (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ type of emotes.

It's from Japanese, a wasei kango (和製漢語) formation using on -readings of Chinese characters: 絵 ( e , "picture") + 文字 ( moji , "script"). The 字 (read ji ) is the same as in 漢字 ( kan…

Unfortunately, Ruhlen, Greenberg, and Starostin's work relies on mass comparison and is neither rigorous nor noteworthy. Prefixing languages are rare and most have been suggested t…

Well that's just what the Higgs field is, a scalar field with a nonzero vacuum expectation value. So the existence of a field of this kind isn't just possible in principle, it's be…

Apple could revoke Zoom's signing certificate, if they were discovered to be doing this.

This is a common idiom when working with generators, since iteration is controlled on the consuming side. Consider e.g. a trivial generator that counts up from one: function * make…

> custom menu commands that will appear in the File menu and the Dock context menu This is pretty neat, but the "File" menu is sort of a vestige of a file-based approach to content…

Hijacked? Can we not still use react-router in a standalone capacity as we have always done?

UUIDv4s are fully random, and btree indices expect "right-leaning" values with a sensible ordering. This makes indexing operations on UUIDv4 columns slow, and was the motivation fo…

the middle passage being a close third, by your reckoning?

The MCAS problem also involved: • developing MCAS in the first place as a scheme to deny pilots simulator time on the novel flight characteristics introduced by the changed engine …