Remove every row with a number less than 1000 up to the first delimiter

Terry R

@Alan-Kilborn said in Remove every row with a number less than 1000 up to the first delimiter:

the purple ball bookmarks

You say purple, I say blue!

Who is right? Of course if we get a “female” to intercede it’s likely to be “deep-sea-blue”, or “sky-purple”. Most men deal in 16 colours. Those old enough would remmebr the good old days when Windows 1.x provided 16 colour renditions of the GUI, WOW!

cheers Alan ;-}}
Terry

PeterJones

@Terry-R

Purple

Blue!

Neither!

RGB(25 66 191) at the dark edge
RGB(141 159 226) at the bright spot

;-)

Alan Kilborn

@Terry-R said in Remove every row with a number less than 1000 up to the first delimiter:

You say purple, I say blue!
Who is right?

Well… the color of the ball (or is it a circle or a sphere, Terry? :-) ) is not uniform throughout its area, so I’m sure we’re both right and there are some definite blue pixels and some definite purple pixels – I’m not going to examine pixels but “blue” or “purple” might be arbitrated by comparison with website data that gives colors a name. Don’t laugh, colors get the scientific treatment just like everything else.

guy038

Hello, @eric-tilley, @terry-r, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All,

A bit, off topic but …

From this site :

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/colornames/color.names.txt

containing a list of 9,284 colors, taken from many sources ( Color-hexa, Crayola, Pantone, Resene, rgb.txt, Wikipedia, xkcd and few others ) and with the help of some regexes, I was able to determine that the colors provided by Peter, relative to the bookmark indicator, are quite similar to the two colors below :

Dark edge of boomarks ( from Peter)           |  025  066  191

       |  Index 6603  |  persian_blue         |  028  057  187  |  #1C39BB  |

Bright spot of bookmarks ( from Peter )       |  141  159  226

       |  Index 5194  |  light_sapphire_blue  |  139  162  231  |  #8BA2E7  |

In your browser, press Ctrl + F to perform a search and enter the index numbers 6603 and 5194, followed with a space char => You should move to the corresponding color. Of course, all these color’s names seem quite subjective, excepted the well-known main colors !

In my opinion, the N++ bookmark’s color seems more blue than purple or even turquoise, as suggested by the two names persian_blue and light_sapphire_blue ;-)

Anyway, don’t forget that, on average, 8.3 % of the mondial population is color blind, so… !

Best regards,

guy038

Alan Kilborn

Somehow I just knew that @guy038 was going to weigh in on the topic of colors… :-)

Terry R

@Alan-Kilborn said in Remove every row with a number less than 1000 up to the first delimiter:

Somehow I just knew that @guy038 was going to weigh in on the topic of colors… :-)

I’m not knocking it, he’s just backed me up! BLUE wins! So Alan, now you HAVE to say blue circle/ball/sphere.

Cheers @guy038
Terry

artie-finkelstein

When an ‘authoritative source’ ( @guy038 ) refers to another ‘authoritative source’ that in turn refers to xkcd as a source; you know that’s a well researched response. <grin> Guy, thank you, you made my day. And to top it all off, color.names.txt is a pretty cool reference to have on hand.

trigger warning: potential to confuse attempted humorous sarcasm with garden variety snark—
Note: I may have to take back some of my praise after I finally crawl back out of the seemingly bottomless hole of fascinating and unique information referenced on Mr. Krzywinski’s web site. Oh, the dangers of wandering outside one’s silo; education may be possible.

Neil Schipper

@Terry-R said in Remove every row with a number less than 1000 up to the first delimiter:

Of course if we get a “female” to intercede it’s likely to be “deep-sea-blue”, or “sky-purple”. Most men deal in 16 colours.

@guy038 said in Remove every row with a number less than 1000 up to the first delimiter:

don’t forget that, on average, 8.3 % of the mondial population is color blind, so… !

Internet tells me:

Color blindness (color vision deficiency, or CVD) affects approximately 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women in the world

So a random pair of women, compared to a random pair of men, are more than 10x likely to agree with obervations like “color X differs from color Y” in many cases. It makes sense that among women, more fine-grained descriptive terms would emerge that are sensible to them.

This is a nice instance of: “what was once a cultural trope is now a scientifically validated claim”.

Neil Schipper

@Neil-Schipper said in Remove every row with a number less than 1000 up to the first delimiter:

are more than 10x likely to agree

That’s ridiculous, you.

are less then a tenth as likely to disagree

Better.

guy038

Hello @neil-schipper,

You quoted :

Color blindness (color vision deficiency, or CVD) affects approximately 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women in the world

So my proportion of 8.3 % was not correct. Giving your statement, this leads to a real proportion of 50 % × 1 ÷ 12 + 50 % × 1 ÷ 200. So the proportion of color-blind people, among the world population, is rather ≈ 4.4 %, with a clear proportion in men compared to women ( about 16 times more ! )

BR

guy038