Mike Wiser

You are literally the only one I've seen less than 0.002. I'm seeing a lot of people reporting ~0.005.

But, yeah, the worst I've seen someone reporting is still pretty close to what this site is calling typical.

I was a kid when my family did some home renovations/remodeling. My parents put me in charge of picking out specific colors of things after giving me general guidelines of what they were looking for, as they'd noticed I had better color perception than they did. My score seems to support this.

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

This is a game to find where the vertical line is separating two colors, scored on how small of a difference you can reliably detect.

I seem to have the hardest time in the peach/pink range, and the easiest in the purples

What's My JND? 0.0024
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Probably not statistically significantly, but: yes?

bsky.app/profile/drmi...

Anecdotally, I seem to have the hardest time in the pink/peach section of the spectrum, and I do really well in the purples.

Screenshot displaying delta E (subscript OK) JND of 0.0024 "Genuinely remarkable. You sailed past the theoretical human limit like it owed you money. I'd accuse you of cheating but I don't actually know how you'd cheat at this"

After I cleaned my screen:

Missed slip n slide opportunity.

And to think that Iowa was the 3rd US state to legalize same sex marriage.

There is a class action suit that's been filed.

I'm looking forward to eventually there being some sort of ability to look up who they were offering to pretend to be.

You have to do the movements too. The words alone aren't enough!

That is a surprisingly reasonable cost.

Thankfully, some seemingly bizarre sayings have entirely reasonable origins, and learning about them can help.

For example, being under the weather apparently means you are ... not in space? But its origins lay in sailing, and sailors literally going below during some seasickness-inducing weather.

Does the dissonance between the obvious intent of a phrase and what it literally says bother you, or are you neurotypical?

(this post brought to you by several tautologies I encountered in a short span tonight)

I got 0.0036 on my laptop. I'm tempted to try it on a different monitor.

Homeopathic fentanyl.

"eating thin mints from the freezer" in the style of the teenage mutant ninja turtles logo

current status

We do have loans, but they are explicitly short term. They're for if yours is broken and you're waiting for repairs, not an end-run around the requirement to have one.

Anyone have a recommendation for a good screen door? Preferably one of the retractable kind -- ie, with a built-in panel that you can raise or lower to switch between a screen and a pane of glass.

I feel like I'm not understanding you correctly. Is there a way teams win *other* than by runs?

The bus driver said it was strange, it seemed like every American he spoke to hated the guy. I pointed out that fewer of his supporters than his opponents had passports.

I visited London in 2018. A bus driver asked me what I thought of Trump, I said he was a nightmare and that it was deeply upsetting anyone would vote for him. And that was in his less-awful term than his current one.

That's good to know. I've never sent typos to authors, but I've never known what to do with them when I find them.

Now if only I could snag some bonus points on my student evals for fixing their tech problems...

Fair. This term I have 280 in a lecture, and 28 each in 2 labs.

Last term I had 150 in one lecture, 80 in another lecture, and 28 in a lab.

There's only so much tech battling I can handle at those enrollments.

Interestingly, we primarily *want* our students to submit .pdf. Brightspace/Desire2Learn acts as a .pdf viewer.

I have very explicit instructions that I will not accept .KEY or .HEIC files at all.

Quote of the evening without context: I am a font of haphazard knowledge.

Oh, there's that too, but that's easier to deal with. Same with the ones who have no idea where on their computer a file is. But that I can show them, at the end of class or in our student help hours. It's a lot easier to deal with than "your tech is not up to standards"

I have never met anyone who is more adept at tracking every last cent they have than people who live or have lived in poverty

it is a skill developed out of necessity and it never leaves you

Which: great, that spells out what's required.

What happens when a student doesn't, though?

As far as I can tell, that's basically left to their instructors. Which really feels like it should not be my job.