The Quest for Blue

Re:The Quest for Blue by croemer on Monday February 12, 2024 @07:25PM (#39352588)

The author is ironically called "Tom Verde". Verde meaning green in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and a few more languages.

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Re:The Quest for Blue by imba404 on Monday February 12, 2024 @08:15PM (#39353064)

And where we get the word "verdant"

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Re:The Quest for Blue by croemer on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @01:53PM (#39361265)

> verdant: (of countryside) green with grass or other rich vegetation. > "verdant valleys" > "a deep, verdant green" Learned a new word! I wonder, however, if this word is ever used outside of SATs.

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Re:The Quest for Blue by TaylorAlexander on Monday February 12, 2024 @09:41PM (#39353668)

I always thought it was funny that Andrej Karpathy developed software for self driving cars - literally software for car paths.

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Re:The Quest for Blue by euroderf on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @04:05AM (#39355889)

Also I hear that the Carpathian Mountains have roadways. You're welcome :)

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Re:The Quest for Blue by nytesky on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @03:15AM (#39355636)

In some languages (such as Vietnamese XANH) blue and green use the same word. I always wondered if it was because blue was so rare (other than the sky), why make a new word a color you never see?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

Verde is not one of them though.

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