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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution

From "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.cellular-phone-tech
Subject Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution
Date 2017-04-22 21:26 +0100
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Message-ID <op.yy35pwdejs98qf@red.lan> (permalink)
References (15 earlier) <op.yyq0ww03js98qf@red.lan> <D517EC19.9F314%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <op.yy3xg2kajs98qf@red.lan> <rMNKA.6920$7Y5.5504@fx13.iad> <D520FD6D.A0CE5%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>

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On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 20:30:37 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

> On 4/22/17, 12:01 PM, in article rMNKA.6920$7Y5.5504@fx13.iad, "Mark Lloyd"
> <not@mail.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 04/22/2017 12:28 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>>> I used to have a printer which would print with all the coloured inks
>>>>> if the
>>>>> black ran out.  It wasn't perfectly black though.
>>>>
>>>> Right... it is not a "clean" of a black as black ink.
>>>
>>> Just very very dark brown :-)
>>
>> Did you know that brown is a very similar color to yellow (dark yellow)?
>>
>> Also, I use this formula to find the brightness of a RGB color:
>>
>> brightness = red * .299 + green * .587 + blue * .114
>>
>> The constants have to do with the perception of brightness.
>
> I used something similar to that when working on this "challenge" that Owl
> presented in COLA:
>
>     <https://youtu.be/kucxFEbB97g>
>
> The main challenge was just having the terminal color be selected to match
> the background (why, who knows, but he wanted that) but I also wanted to
> make sure the text could be read. Used a calculated brightness level to
> decide if the text should be black or white.

Windows 10 changes the title bar colour etc depending on my background picture (which I have change every 5 minutes).

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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 18:28 +0100
  Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-22 10:46 -0700
  Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-04-22 14:01 -0500
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 20:26 +0100
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-22 12:30 -0700
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 21:26 +0100
        Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-22 15:24 -0700
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-04-23 13:34 -0500
        Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-23 12:10 -0700
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-22 12:55 -0700
    Re: W3C/WCAG 2.0 Relative Luminance ( perceived ). Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-04-23 13:45 -0500
      Re: W3C/WCAG 2.0 Relative Luminance ( perceived ). Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-23 12:21 -0700

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