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SFF booknerd; calligrapher; Islamic geometric art doer; figure skating appreciater; coffee-drinking, granola-baking, tofu-eating wokeratum; psycholinguist by vocation, fretful porpentine by aspiration.
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thank you so much!
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And, of course, even if you are wrong, what you're smelling is someone with a bland, boring voice who offers nothing distinctive or engaging in their narrative.
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I like Figure 3. Nice thematic resonance there.
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aaarrrggghhh
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The answer is that I should have been mixing cyan and magenta for purple, and cyan + yellow for green.
This article goes into it in exhaustive detail: sarahrenaeclark.com/advanced-col...
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When working with pigments, the true primary colours are Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow.
I have spent years mixing red and blue paint together and wondering why I got horrible browny-puce instead of royal purple; mixing yellow and blue and getting weird chartreuse ickiness instead of emerald green.
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Red, Yellow, and Blue are commonly known as 'primary colours', and we're taught in kindergarten that we can mix primary colours to make new colours. Red + Blue = Purple, Yellow + Blue = Green, etc.
This is true for colours of light, but it is a DAMN LIE for pigments.
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Good noon! I just finished Megan Bannen's newest (The Undercutting of Rosie and Frank), which was exactly as charming as the previous two in the series. Now about to fall into Robin Hobb's Fool's Errand, which puts me exactly at the halfway mark of my Realm of the Elderlings reread.
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Honestly, I'd trust an 'AI' tool that's actually a bunch of skilled human coders in a trench coat a hell of a lot more than I'd trust an AI tool that's a plagiarism-extrusion machine.
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Simlarly, can confirm. Much bubble. Very wrap.
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But really, I watch it for the costumes.
And the upholstery.
And the wallpaper.
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None of this 'oh, let's leave the ladies to their lady-work' nonsense. No, the lady-work is important! If you want to arrange a spot of insider trading in railroad investments, you need a dinner party! Can't have those meetings in your office, after all!
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(Also, I do rather enjoy how -- in the first two episodes, at least -- there is a real respect for the balance between the Men Doing Business and the Women Doing Society. The male characters respect that their wives are doing Real Work, and support them and use them to make informal connections.
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As this designer knows, gender is a social construct whose sole purpose is to play with the effect of fashion-design on sillhouettes.
Not the worse take on gender, to be honest.
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Tonight he remarked that, for a show about a robot that goes rogue and kills people, we're spending a lot of time watching that not happen. Could it perhaps be that the show is in fact about something else?
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The new taller ones resist the egg-carton hack for doubling up on bookshelves. That extra centimeter or two of height effectively halves the number of books I can store on a single bookcase.
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I have it programmed into my text expander.
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