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    3 days ago

    If this is another attempt to get me to stare into a laser, I’m going to say “Fool me once.”

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      I will never have an original thought in my life.

      Anyway, I’m on book 18 or so, 3rd pass, still finding jokes and references I missed. Calling it now, Discworld is the best fiction I’ve read in 40+ years.

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        2 days ago

        Sir Pratchett was a genius. He will continue to be missed.

        Also worth reading the books he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter.

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          Also worth reading the books he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter.

          The first book is ok, but the rest of the series is pretty meh. Still bought and read them all as a Pratchett fan, but I wouldn’t recommend them to others. If you want to expand past the Discworld series, Good Omens is a much better recommendation. Also Nation is a really good book too.

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    3 days ago

    Similarly, I think I’ve read somewhere that pink isn’t in the color spectrum. Or was it magenta?

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      3 days ago

      A lot of colors, like those, as well as gold, aren’t on the spectrum of visible light either.

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        Gold is – it’s an orangeish yellow. I think what you’re meaning is that when people say “gold”, they usually are referring to the material properties of the metal as well. But the actual color does have a spectral hue. Magenta on the other hand, (including shades of pink that fall under magenta) is not a spectral color, and is just how our brain interprets the combination of signals from our red and blue cones.

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          Right. If you took a picture of a piece of gold and either sampled a point or blurred it together to one color, it wouldn’t look like gold any more.

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        3 days ago

        I’ve always wondered why no one ever seems to mention that there’s no such thing as brown light.