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OriginalGriff wrote: nothing standard that involved CSS
Yeah, I checked and there are 147 colors listed in the latest CSS3 specification dated 19 June 2018. I can confirm that I don't see Sapphire listed.
CSS Color Module Level 3[^]
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Useful site (especially for us colour-blind developers, when we need shades and tints of a colour). But there is a hint here: scroll down and the page shows hints and shades of the colour (with RGB values) which wouldn't really work for an officially named colour...
BUT more importantly, this changes the definition of the CCC OTD (by setting a precedent); if it can now include symbols and numerals in the answer, it's no longer a crossword, surely?  Updated - I see the answer is actually just the word "sapphire" (8 characters), not the hex string originally suggested.
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Hi,
DerekT-P wrote: Useful site especially for us colour-blind developers
Just wanted to point out that if you are on Windows 10 you could use the 'Ease of Access' filters to assist with your special needs.
Filters clarify the digital world for the colorblind[^]
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Thanks David, wasn't aware of those. I will experiment with them. For me as a developer (though I am always clear I am NOT a designer!) I sometimes need to implement "themes" based on a client's existing corporate colours. Trying to create tints and shades can be a problem (I've not attempted to do it scientifically using calculated RGB values) but the site referred to looks to have done a lot of the hard work for me. 
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It would be even more useful if people stopped using colours that aren't 'real'. The world would be a much better place if everyone accepted that: purple is just a shade of blue; orange is yellow; and brown is green.
And, even better..... whenever I mention that I'm colour blind: stop asking: "What colour is this/that?". What is wrong with people? 
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My father had monochromacy - he couldn't see colours at all apparently.
It certainly added a new terror to his night driving when approaching traffic lights.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's whatever colour you see it, really. If you're very quick, you can anticipate that question and turn it back to them, asking what colour they see the grass as, or that tabby cat, and fall about laughing at their answers.
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Not sure how I feel about that. I do hope it is entertaining though. Keanu is 56 years old now. I am not sure if he can jump between buildings and dodge bullets like he used to, but I guess if you are in the Matrix, anything is possible.
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There are no official trailer for it, right? all fan made it looks.
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He made it to John Wick 3 in good form I thought.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I agree. 
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Quote: A sequel, John Wick: Chapter 4, is set to be released on May 27, 2022.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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And they can always make a prequel, e.g. "Matrix the Printer" 
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Thats dotty
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You're just ribbon him, write?
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Slacker007 wrote: Keanu is 56 years old now. I am not sure if he can jump between buildings
Nah[^]
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The bad guys now get energy from the humans inhaling and exhaling through masks that convert kinetic energy into electrical energy, and each human is polarized so that when they get into proximity of each other and move about, there is a dyno-magnetic affect that creates more energy.
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After seeing Matrix 3 I realized that that was two sequels too many.
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I think it's great news, I'm a big fan of Matrix movies. Can't wait to watch the new one
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So I'm building a monitor so my father in law can check on the pump that pulls water from the creek without him having to go out to the pump house. We'll be using wifi repeaters to take the signal all the way out to the pump house. The pump's status can be viewed in the house on a PC in the windows system tray so you can tell if it's idle or running, or the tank is full.
It requires a tiny computer to be installed in the pumphouse and then wired up to the pump. I chose an Arduino Mega 2560 with an ESP8266 wifi adapter. It is expected to send a UDP datagram every half second reporting the pump status.
I finally got the ESP8266 wifi library installed in my Arduino programming environment so I can use wifi with this little tiny computer. I bought a wifi module separately and planned to wire it up, but there are power supply problems so I'm buying an arduino mega 2560 with wifi built in this time.
I already wrote the software for the computer end of what I'm building so I'm almost there.
I wrote the software in a couple of hours, the hardware has taken a day so far, probably 2 or 3 by the time I'm done.
It's a bit more of a pain than I was hoping, particularly trying to install the libraries for the esp8266 and getting them to work with the development environment but i did get through it. The first time is always the roughest, but this was compounded by the fact that there's more than one library.
Anyway, I can see the end of this now. Thank heaven they have a board with wifi on it already. That was way more trouble than it was worth, as documentation online on how to wire it up was conflicting. Plus the stock power supply on the arduino doesn't have enough juice to power an external wifi widget.
I'm sure some of you are better at this than me, since I haven't done much circuit building since I was a child - before I discovered programming mostly - but I'm pretty proud of what I've accomplished with this so far.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well done on getting it working - as I said before - article please
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: article please
There are already many articles on CP covering this ... (but of course none with a codewitch flavour).
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