Minor pedantry, but this copy is mixing two different time schemes:
> [peaking at 0AM] while during the day colors are lighter [peaking at 12AM]
0(0:00) is a 24 hour clock concept, and isn't used with a 12 hour clock. Further, 12AM typically refers to midnight. So you either want {peaking at 00:00; peaking at 12:00} or {peaking at 12AM; peaking at 12PM}.
"Someday aliens are going to land their saucers in a field somewhere in New Jersey and everything is going to go just fine right up until we try to explain our calendar to them..."
Someday aliens are going to land their saucers in a field somewhere in New Jersey and everything is going to go just fine, especially when they too admit they haven't figured out how to keep track of time consistently.
He makes the assumption that aliens wouldn't have their own seemingly-arbitrary date and time system. Honestly it's biased for a "everyone but humans are entirely logical and never deviated" viewpoint that cheap (bad) sci-fi goes for.
This clearly humorous twitter thread has really nothing to do with aliens, it’s shorthand for a viewpoint we can all understand enough to get the premise.
Lazy sci-fi. Every civilization except humans is unified and monolithic, or has at most maybe 2 subgroups, because it’s hard to invent thousands of years of history.
And not just fiction, but science also: “Why haven’t aliens done X by now?”
> In Japanese usage, midnight is written as 午前0時 (0:00 a.m.) and noon is written as 午後0時 (0:00 p.m.), making the hours numbered sequentially from 0 to 11 in both halves of the day.
(As per Wikipedia) Can be found in the Intl.DateFormat API as well.
If you mean Caesar and Augustus, they are actually the reason we don't have even more badly named months, like Quintilis (July) and Sextilis (August). December was the tenth month simply because each new year started in March. This likely changed long before Caesar was even born. They also, allegedly, had only ten months, but the second king of Rome changed that, but it could also be just a legend.
Not true. They exist, but can be confusing to some people. Because 12:01 AM is just past midnight (and 12:01 PM just past noon), 12:00 AM is midnight and 12:00 PM is noon.
You're technically correct. Strictly speaking, yes, noon and midnight are not afternoon or after-midnight. However, that's what your digital clock will show. At 12:00:00 noon, it will say PM.
Digital clocks update at a frequency and are not continuous. The chance that an update happens at exactly noon or midnight is 0%. This is why AM and PM are always shown on a digital clock.
Welp buying this immediately. I'm colorblind but dabble in some art and some design work and this will be super useful. I've found tools that will display rgb values, but translating that to a color mentally isn't particulary easily.
This tool is Mac Only and that's mentioned neither here nor in the article. Only after reading the article, when you want to use the tool, and you scroll down to download it, you finally see that there's only one Mac only Download Button.
FWIW, we did get Halo 1, and I think the Mac version was the first to let you fly a banshee and shoot a fuel rod cannon. Maybe PC came out first with, but these didn’t make it into the Xbox version. Mac might have been the first online halo play as well
> This version implements a different algorithm to translate time into colors, covering the whole visible light spectrum in 24 hours. At night colors get darker [peaking at 0AM] while during the day colors are lighter [peaking at 12AM].
What a coincidence. I just had an idea like this two days ago because we recently adopted a puppy and we’re trying to establish routines. I think he is struggling with the day/night cycle since our blinds are usually pulled. I wanted to use a screen or a color-changing bulb, so he knows yellow o’clock means daytime and blue o’clock means night. Maybe I can use this. Thanks for open sourcing it.
But if you have 2 events with a variable time between them (ex: when the user get a document, when you the user click on submit) I think it should: the set of {start, end} would have some limited entropy.
The StackOverflow question you linked is specifically about JavaScript's Math.random function. As you said, in general it's possible, in fact most software PRNGs use the epoch to construct their seeds.
It seems disingenuous to fade from one color to the next while displaying only two hexes for color. Either that or it’s not fading and my eyes are deceiving me, but as I’m on mobile I’ve not the time to look at the source code.
Not sure what is disingenouous about it... The website is showing the current time encoded as colour, with some animation to make it look good. Its not a colour guessing game :)
For me the animation momentarily turns it into pink, then back to red. I don't really see the point because it just makes an entirely different color to what it's supposed to be showing.
> Since pure hue variations in RGB comprise less values than the total number of seconds in a day, colors are further modulated each second to show a distintive gamut of colors for every different moment in the day.
> Variations are based on phased sine functions that respond to each individual color, the fine modulation and luminosity.
> [peaking at 0AM] while during the day colors are lighter [peaking at 12AM]
0(0:00) is a 24 hour clock concept, and isn't used with a 12 hour clock. Further, 12AM typically refers to midnight. So you either want {peaking at 00:00; peaking at 12:00} or {peaking at 12AM; peaking at 12PM}.