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It’s 250. There’s also a list of all colors in use, sorted by frequency: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors
#abcabc is second on HN... "soft foam". Because people like foam, or easy to remember?
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Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
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“Has the same name as”, however, is a transitive relation. So, if no two indistinguishable colors have distinct names, and for every pair of colors have a path between them of colors such that adjacent colors in the path are indistinguishable, then all colors would have the same name.
The flaw here is the assumption that colors have a single, well-defined name.
Even if you associate each color with a set of names, if the graph where vertices are colors and edges are “these colors are indistinguishable” is connected, and any two indistinguishable colors have the same set of names, then all colors would have the same set of names.
The solution of “assign a degree of applicability if each name to each color” and allow a color name to have different levels of applicability for a pair of indistinguishable colors, sorta solves the problem?
But, in a sense, isn’t “to what degree do each of these names apply to this color” just a kind of identifier like a name is? (Though it has the advantage that we can talk about the identifiers being very close to each other )
We can’t have identifiers for colors always be the same iff the colors are indistinguishable, because “is the same” is transitive while “is visually indistinguishable” is not.
Therefore, in order to be able to describe a large variety of colors (with say, rgb), we choose to use an identifying scheme (such as rgb) which has different identifiers for colors which are visually indistinguishable.
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#213How is spam prevented?
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#214color naming is a cultural topic.
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I have a handful I'd nominate as "lazy programmer" colors that I think are useful as placeholders but aren't as horrid as #FF00FF etc: blue #aabbdd green #aaddbb purple #bbaadd pink #ddaabb orange #ddbbaa (I usually end up using #bbddaa as well but it's just a different shade of green)
After seeing your comment, I thought blue should be #DaBaDe(e) but I wasn't first to come up with this idea: https://colornames.org/color/dabade
Nice. There's also:
I'm Blue https://colornames.org/color/174ac0
I'M BLuE https://colornames.org/color/1971d5
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That’s called CSS. Use a user style, not javascript. The query is not applicable since its not offered by HN themselves.
You are misunderstanding what grease-monkey can do, and what I'm proposing. e.g. try loading news.ycombinator.com?myColorVar=44ff55 , it will load normally, as usual. Of course, this variable means nothing to the HN backend, but this is where e.g. Grease-monkey comes in: It injects a bit of javascript of your choosing into the page context for the news.ycombinator.com/* pages. This scriplet can easily change the colo…
You’re missing the point of the query. What’s the point of using the query at all?
OP suggested it as a way for users to customize their HN color; Then you suggested to take this query and make an extension out of it.
If you want to customize your HN color, use CSS, not this roundabout way through a query parameter.
The query never makes sense anyway. If HN were to allow customization they’d allow it in the options, not as a random query that you have to set manually.
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This isn't correct though. You need 256 base words, and two substitute words, one of which substitutes for the first repeat, and the other for the second, so 258 words total.
That accounts for the repeating but not the ordering, right?
Oh, by 'unordered' you mean that the three words could be in any order and still mean the same thing?
Okay but that's a strange requirement. A 'big burger house' isn't a 'big house burger', after all.
I had read 'unordered' as 'the collation order of the words has no connection to the ordinal rank of the underlying byte', for some reason
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#218#ff6600 can be named as bhagwa
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After seeing your comment, I thought blue should be #DaBaDe(e) but I wasn't first to come up with this idea: https://colornames.org/color/dabade
Nice. There's also: I'm Blue https://colornames.org/color/174ac0 I'M BLuE https://colornames.org/color/1971d5
That ought to end well. "It enhances understanding! We benefit from a nomenclature..."
... that is apparently entirely reliant on case-sensitivity. Because "I'm Blue" is a very different color to "I'M BLuE" (and I guarantee there's probably dozens of other variations there, at least).
Seriously?
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#220Reminds me of the idea (and the actual practice) of describing chemical formulas with words.