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Great article. Ummm... dumb question, but... stars are colored? (Color blind poster here).
> "The color of a star, as determined by the most intense frequency of the visible light, depends on the temperature of the star's outer layers, including its photosphere."
I didn't know he was color blind. I can't help but connect this to his famous disdain for syntax highlighting and colored text: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...
For instance, the default console colors in Ubuntu are TERRIBLE (maybe for everyone). The output of 'ls' uses blue letters on a black background for some type of file, and I literally cannot see those. Ditto for some errors in Emacs (e.g., trying to exit w/o saving a file). That output is invisible.
If you are an engineer and decide to do something with color in your UI, please get some designer help and listen.
Great article. Ummm... dumb question, but... stars are colored? (Color blind poster here).
Great article. Ummm... dumb question, but... stars are colored? (Color blind poster here).
Then I read the wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnChroma) that says "they do not restore normal color vision, and claims in excess of this by the manufacturer have been characterized as marketing hype ... They are simply a very expensive pair of hunting glasses ... How could they possibly work? The answer is that they can't."
I liked the video and now my feed has dozens of similar ones with similar strong reactions. If they don't work why the reactions? Am I missing the videos where they just say "meh"? Is it a placebo effect or maybe they're just playing it up for the gift givers? I guess the test is whether they continue to wear the glasses for long.
Please please, if you work in hardware, make it a red/blue or green/blue colors for empty/fully charged, or make it blink, anything, just not tiny 1 pixel size red or green color (or amber/yellow, they are equally hard to distinguish for people like me from green).
I'm r/g colorblind, and suddenly the indistinguishability of small colored objects makes sense now. Wow. Okay then. I hate multicolor LEDs with a passion. Those little amber or green dots look identical to me, even when you put them side by side. I use a phone app that uses the camera and shows me RGB values at a reticule. I've gone through rack and racks of equipment with that app, looking for things like dead drive…
Could you share the app name? It would make my life a bit easier (I hate those red/amber/green leds that look identical) :)
I'm r/g colorblind, and suddenly the indistinguishability of small colored objects makes sense now. Wow. Okay then. I hate multicolor LEDs with a passion. Those little amber or green dots look identical to me, even when you put them side by side. I use a phone app that uses the camera and shows me RGB values at a reticule. I've gone through rack and racks of equipment with that app, looking for things like dead drive…
> I use a phone app that uses the camera and shows me RGB values at a reticule. Could you share the app name? It would make my life a bit easier (I hate those red/amber/green leds that look identical) :)
Great article. Ummm... dumb question, but... stars are colored? (Color blind poster here).