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Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

#151

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Without commenting on the reasonability of it, you may want to be aware that a growing population of vegetarian and female tech workers may find these offensive.

I'm pretty sure both women and men love big boobs and big dicks...

#FA6607 :)

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

#152

So which of these actually spell the color they represent (or something closely related)? From a quick glance, I have no found any. Do color-words like that exist in other languages maybe?

My children definitely have clothes in colors close to #BAB1E5. #B00B00 kind of looks like blood.

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

#153
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Found a slur in the dataset, not sure if these are programmatically generated (I assume so) but may want to consider filtering those out.

It's worth pointing out that they are slurs in the U.S., not globally. One is a type of meatball where I'm from.

Yep. But if your user base is likely to include Americans, then you might want to consider filtering them out. (As it could be shocking to read.)

Note the word consider, by the way. I'm not demanding anything here, I'm saying the author should make a deliberate choice about their inclusion rather than including them just because they were auto generated.

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

#156

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RIP your voicemail

It's 2022: RIP the concept of voicemail

You think the concept of people leaving audio messages to one another is dead? That seems like something that will never die out.

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

#157

So which of these actually spell the color they represent (or something closely related)? From a quick glance, I have no found any. Do color-words like that exist in other languages maybe?

5EABED (a blue) and B00B00 (blood red) were the best matches I found

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

#158

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Without commenting on the reasonability of it, you may want to be aware that a growing population of vegetarian and female tech workers may find these offensive.

Beef dies in the wild too so DEADBEEF should not, I do not care if they want to use B16D1CC instead :) I can't see why CAFEBABE would be offensive though. ...And honestly I guess I don't care? If people are that mad about some levity then I probably do not want to work with them.

If you want levity, why not just use terms that aren't offensive? If you can't think of a joke without being sexist or misogynist, then that's on you - don't blame others for "not having a sense of humor"

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

#160

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It's 2022: RIP the concept of voicemail

You think the concept of people leaving audio messages to one another is dead? That seems like something that will never die out.

in my circle its common to email mp3 attachments
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