The Greeks didn't have a word for the color blue.
The Russians have two.
Like "Blue" and "Navy"? Or just two blues? If the latter, what's the reason?
Paintmakers are running out of the color blue
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The Russians have two.
Azure, cobalt, sapphire, cerulean, indigo, aquamarine... Most languages probably have quite a few.
Two basic color words for different types of blue. You might think of azure, cobalt, and sapphire as shades of blue. To a Russian speaker, синий and голубой are not shades of each other, they are different basic colors, like blue and green in English. And there is no one color word in Russian encompassing all blues.
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#14It's all right. According to Hackernews, we need only change our languages to exclude a word for blue, then blue won't exist and we wonpt need blue paint.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Russians have two.
Like "Blue" and "Navy"? Or just two blues? If the latter, what's the reason?
What's the reason why English and most other languages of Europe treat blue and green like distinct basic colors, while many languages of Asia have one word encompassing both? What's the reason why Hungarian has two basic words for different kinds of red? It's just a historical artifact of language evolution. Russian happened to the evolve two different distinct basic color words for blue; to an English speaker, both are different shades of blue, but in Russian, neither is a shade of the other; and Russian has no single color word encompassing the English concept of "blue".
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#16That website is a catastrophe. The banner on the left prevents the intro text from being read. There's also a banner on the right which is similar in behavior. Neither can be dismissed. Text can't be copied without dragging along useless marketing material. There is no Reader view to nuke the bad design decisions.
Strangely, the original story ran on Bloomberg itself, which isn't mentioned in the article. Fortunately, the archive.md trick works. https://archive.md
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#17This is completely tangential but does anyone who has any real experience with painting done anything with the VR painting apps? I have one called PaintingVR, and I think it's cool, but I have no real experience with physical paints (always opting to use a digital drawing tablet since I was a kid).
If anyone has any experience, how do you feel it compares to the real deal?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like "Blue" and "Navy"? Or just two blues? If the latter, what's the reason?
What's the reason why English and most other languages of Europe treat blue and green like distinct basic colors, while many languages of Asia have one word encompassing both? What's the reason why Hungarian has two basic words for different kinds of red? It's just a historical artifact of language evolution. Russian happened to the evolve two different distinct basic color words for blue; to an English speaker, both…
Even in English, in certain contexts, blue-green middling shades are treated individually (turquoise, cyan). Of course there are many color names in paint/art, but even in everyday situations there is a pretty clear concept of turquoise being its own distinct color.
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#19This is completely tangential but does anyone who has any real experience with painting done anything with the VR painting apps? I have one called PaintingVR, and I think it's cool, but I have no real experience with physical paints (always opting to use a digital drawing tablet since I was a kid). If anyone has any experience, how do you feel it compares to the real deal?
King Spray on the Oculus Quest is pretty good (cue the multi threaded chain about Oculus requiring a FB login).
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#20That website is a catastrophe. The banner on the left prevents the intro text from being read. There's also a banner on the right which is similar in behavior. Neither can be dismissed. Text can't be copied without dragging along useless marketing material. There is no Reader view to nuke the bad design decisions. Strangely, the original story ran on Bloomberg itself, which isn't mentioned in the article. Fortunately…
These sorts of comments are against HN guidelines. It's not conducive to complain about the site's poor UX, as aggravating as it is.