All you need in life is a color picker willing to expose you to the unbounded madness we call color vision.

what is even happening here 😨 wheres the circle with the triangle inside we all know and love..

The circle and triangle are a lie we tell ourselves to cope with the ugly reality... Now this-- this is the real deal!

In seriousness, this is oklch.com, a color picker for the OKLCH color model.

There are whole several hour lectures one could take in color science and theory, but to keep it short: the set of colors we can see, the set of colors monitors can display, and the set of colors computers can model are three circles that only somewhat overlap.

In this case, if I wanted this color

but in red, I could just go of Photoshop and move over the hue slider, getting this as a result:

Which is.. acceptable, but not as "bright" and "vibrant" as the green I had. Looking at the graphs in the OKLCH color picker, we can figure out why:

It tells us that a red with the same luminosity and chroma as this green is out of gamut—that is, it cannot be displayed by this monitor.

In this case, you can use the edges of the graph to find the color that is closest to what you want. You can, for example, keep the chroma but sacrifice lightness,

keep the lightness but drop the chroma,

or a bit of both, which is what the common HSV triangles already do.

But I like to know when it happens, y'know?

Some people think the natural numbers should start at zero, and get very worked up about this somehow being the "true", most logical, practical, etc. definition.

Some people think the natural numbers should start at one, and get equally worked up about this being the "true", most logical, most practical, etc. definition.

Unfortunately, to date -- and despite my vigorous letter-writing campaign -- the hidebound reactionaries that comprise the mathematical elite have rejected out of hand my elegant compromise position.

Apparently it "misses the point completely" and "wouldn't make any sense" and "1/2 isn't even an integer".

SO FIREFOX BROKE

I WENT TO CLEAR MY CACHE N STUFF SINCE DOWNLOADS WERE BEING SLOW AND FIREFOX SAYS MY COOKIES TAKE UP

17,179,869,185 GB

THAT'S LIKE 17 TIMES THE ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET WHAT DID I DO WHAT HAPPENED

SMALL UPDATE

it was YOU

google's entire server space is masquerading as cookies on ur browser and is stored on your pc specifically. sorry

My wife asked me whether I experimented with sex and drugs when I was in high school.

I said, “Yes, but I was part of the control group.”

teens, in unison: change your fucking url

:->

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This tattoo is very funny when you know that kerning is the fancy term for the space between letters. Very important in text design to get it right.

I see the only person on the planet who knows what it is and is immune to the rage response at seeing it done poorly is not above using that advantage in combat.

i have a runny nose so im gonna stop by the pharmacy and pick up a curved greatsword to behead myself with

Check for understanding:

@xkcd-for-that

I am searching for a term that may not exist:

I have a husband

He has a brother, who is my brother-in-law

My brother-in-law has a wife. Now colloquially, she is my sister in law, but is there a distinction to indicate she is also my husband's sister-in-law and not his sister? Is she my sister-in-law-in-law? My sister twice removed?

This is not actually the term I'm after but it'll help.

My brother-in-law's wife has siblings. Who are they in relation to me? I see my sister-in-law-in-law's brother more than I see her, but is there a way to explain that he's family?

Now, the real term I'm after: my sister-in-law-in-law's brother has a daughter. Is she my niece? Second cousin some degree removed??

Like, kinship trees vary wildly by culture, but I feel like there might be terms for these by-marriage relatives from inheritance law or something?

To be clear: in conversation I call the little girl my niece, and my sister-in-law-in-law's family my "hobbit relations" to convey the genetic and legal distance overcome by affection.

I am wondering if there IS a cumbersome-ass-really-only-used-in-court-and-who-inherit-the-throne-scrnarios entirely for comedic purposes.

AHA!

Okay, so its archaic and I'm extrapolating but your family that is related to you by law but not by blood are your "Relatives of Affinity", and there are *degrees* of Affinity!

So my husband's brother could be my brother in the first degree/ first degree brother

Brother-in-law's wife is my sister in the second degree/ second degree sister

HER brother is my Brother in the Third Degree, and his daughter is my Niece in the third degree!

This is a mechanic I have more or less pulled out of my ass, but I like it because it makes relations sound like homicide, which is extremely funny.

Does the term 'removed' also fit in the same place as 'degree'? Coz Sister Twice Removed is so much more Hobbity.

No, because "X Removed" already has a specific and helpful meaning: It indicates how many generations younger someone is from you. Your cousin's child is your Cousin Once Removed, your cousin's grandchild is your cousin twice Removed etc. Think of it as describing generations in the opposite direction of "Grand" and "Great-Grand"

"1st, 2nd, 3rd etc." is for cousins in the same generation, seperated by how many generations back your last shared ancestor was (minus one). Your Aunt's child is your First cousin, you share a grandparent) Your parent's cousin's child is your Second Cousin (Your share a great-grandparent. Your Parent's Second Cousin's Child is your Third cousin etc. it's a sort of lateral measurement across the same generation.

Degrees therefore is ALSO a lateral measurement, indicating how many marriages connect you two, and then using the closet signifier that would be the case if they were a blood relative. My Mom's brother is my Uncle, but her Sister's Husband is my First-Degree Uncle, and HIS brother is also my second-degree Uncle but HIS wife would be my third-degree Aunt.

Note also that you could describe your Second-degree Uncle as your "Cousin's Uncle" if it needed to be clear that the second uncle is more removed than the first, or needed to sound even hobbitier.

@xkcd-for-that

I don't fuck w nerds, the moment I can smell lore correction coming I'm like "Oh Neptune" and I gotta call my mom and ask her to pick me up

If I'm like "I really liked the scene where Gandalf learns the truth about the Ring in the first movie" and someone's like "Oh you mean when he was in Minas Tirith, originally known as Minas Anor when it was first built in the Third Age?" I am pulling the nearest fire alarm

Them: Pelargir prospered further under the reign of the the Ship-kings, and Tarannon Falastur, 12th king of Gondor, built a home there, though Berúthiel, his wife, didn't care for it

Me, sweating: D. Did you know that. That Viggo Mortensen really broke his toe. In that one scene

hey quick question, probably not important - how did you know all that stuff to put in the hypotheticals

[Throws smoke bomb down on the floor] [When the smoke clears I am still in the room with you but lying facedown, possibly dead but more likely unconscious. There is a visible dent in the nearest door.]

If you think people used to willingly stare off into the distance before smartphones, my dad told me he had this psychology assignment when he was in college in the 80s which was basically

Go to a restaraunt by yourself and eat a meal without a newspaper or journal or anything else to keep you occupied and then write a report about it

Which tells me that this was a way for a professor to inflict psychological torture on their students and that people used to bring little things with them to keep them entertained. Shown by those old pictures of everyone in a trolley reading a newspaper with one hand.

Frankly I think that the human brain has been craving smart phone forever. Perhaps we use it too much at times but if this was 1985 we also wouldn’t be talking to people. We’d just be looking at newspaper or drawing stuff on notepad instead. And the old people would all be shaking their fists about how kids spend too much time looking at that damn TV because yes this discourse has been going on long before smart phone

I am a person who was 25 when smartphone occurred. I am here to tell you that in all the years before smartphone, I brought at least one book ev er y where. If for some strange reason I did not have a book, I doodled, or wrote fragments of poems, stories, or letters, or listened to music on a Walkman or Discman. In absolute extremity, if I did not have a book or pen/paper or music, I daydreamed fanfiction inside my head.

There was a spoof ad, back when the original iPhone came out, that went “iPhone. Take your ADD with you everywhere.” I laughed, and I still quote it. Because sometimes, yes, a thing on my phone is distracting!

But the fact is that I already took my ADD with me everywhere.

The problem is not phone. The problem is social media apps that use dark patterns to exploit people’s minds and emotions to make money. And that started well before phone.

I KNOW there are older newspaper articles than this about these concerns

This article you’ve linked to is from a satirical news website.

Why is this heat so hot 😩

It’s the heat

Source?

I’m glad the folks at NASA are having fun with XKCD too.

Yea they had fun with this