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Cat Colors
- dhekir 7y agoUnfortunately seems inaccessible, at least in France: "Access Denied - Sucuri Website Firewall - Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator."
- senectus1 7y agoworks in Australia... the bit about eye color is mildly interesting: >Another cool point to consider when it comes to cat colors — cat eye colors. All kittens are born with blue eyes. At about 6 to 8 weeks of age, “their potential final eye color begins to become apparent,” Miller says. “Full brilliance is not achieved until a cat reaches maturity.” Full maturity can take one to two years, depending on the cat breed.
- fasthandle 7y agoAren't a lot of brown eyed people also born with blue eyes, changing a few weeks later?
- richrichardsson 7y agoBoth my kids were (I have blue eyes, mother has brown). Disclaimer: Sample set of 2 may not be representative of the general population :)
- lloeki 7y agoInterestingly enough, blue eyes bear low levels of melanin but that melanin is what makes eyes brown at higher levels: the blue color is due to Rayleigh scattering! Green eyes are so because of a combination of lipochrome (color source of amber eyes) for the yellow component and Rayleigh scattering for the blue component. Hazel eyes have non-uniform melanin in low to moderate amount, which combined with Rayleigh scattering makes the eyes change color depending on light conditions (mine can go to greenish-almost-blue to deep green to brown with speckles of gold, and any intermediate combination of those).
- Sharlin 7y agoYep, this. Blue eyes are blue for the same reason that the sky is blue!
- nickserv 7y agoSame for some of us, that are born with gray eyes and color starts appearing weeks after birth. And eye color can change during childhood, from blue to green or hazel for example.
- seszett 7y agoWeird... it doesn't work for me either from France, but it works from Belgium. I wonder why they would block just France. Obviously since they don't block Belgium it's not like those American newspapers who block EU visitors to make a statement against GDPR. Edit, here's the archive.is version: http://archive.is/GjLRp http://archive.is/GjLRp
- bearburger 7y agoNot just France. Russia is blocked too.
- fasthandle 7y agoBlocked in China too.
- neonate 7y agohttp://archive.is/GjLRp http://archive.is/GjLRp
- CharlesDodgson 7y agoWorks in the UK
- naoru 7y agoRussian IPs are also blocked. Oh well, I'm getting used to it. But I don't understand why a cat magazine would block access from certain countries.
- piotrkubisa 7y agoThe only reason I find is a threat of DDoS and/or script kiddies with penetration bots / automated tools.
- codedokode 7y agoSame story when visiting from Russia.
- robin_reala 7y agoScroll, popup, scroll another page, another popup, close tab. This is either an advert for NoJS, Wikipedia, or both.
- vkaku 7y agoWhen I read this, I thought it was something to do with a nice looking `cat` command. Oh well, it's HN
- srott 7y agoThen check the grcat tool :) https://github.com/garabik/grc https://github.com/garabik/grc
- vkaku 7y agoThank you! Will do.
- bschne 7y agoCheck out bat, it is almost a bit over-designed, but features line numbers, syntax highlighting, and paging without piping to less/more out of the box: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
- Fnoord 7y agoCame here to add that. I'll add it is written in Rust by same author as fd utility (find replacement)
- icebraining 7y agoThe old BSD cat already has line numbers, which led to Rob Pike's 1983 presentation titled ‘UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful’: http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ If I was the author of bat, I'd consider inserting that link into the README, just as tongue-in-cheek :D
- malvosenior 7y agoCheck out vimcat which is part of the vimpager project: https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager Basically cat with vim syntax coloring.
- jodrellblank 7y agoclick on “manage preferences” on the cookie popup, and then “list all partners” in tiny text link near the bottom. Why do they have so many partners? How could they reasonably partner with them? Why don’t they have “uncheck all”?
- Sharlin 7y agoA huge and actually informative infographic on cat colors: http://www.cedarseed.com/tuts/catcol-wp.html http://www.cedarseed.com/tuts/catcol-wp.html
- zeristor 7y agoThat looks amazing, now if only there was a chart about cat personalities.
- Sharlin 7y ago> When it comes to cat colors and coat patterns, here’s a mind-blowing fact: All cats are tabbies. Shouldn't be that surprising if you know what their immediate ancestral species looks like [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wildcat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wildcat
- lpellis 7y ago> If you’ve studied cats for very long, you probably know that calico and tortoiseshell cats — those with both black and red coat colors — are female. That’s because the orange gene is carried on the sex-linked X chromosome. Thats pretty cool, at least now I know the random cat thats been visiting me is female :)
- Anarch157a 7y agoMale calicos exists[0]. It happens when it has XXY sexual chromosomes (trisomy). [0] http://www.vetstreet.com/dr-marty-becker/can-calico-cats-be-male http://www.vetstreet.com/dr-marty-becker/can-calico-cats-be-...
- briandear 7y ago> By red, we mean what is commonly called orange. How pretentious. Why not just say orange? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(colour) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(colour)
- dehrmann 7y agoIf this were a "lost cat" poster, I'd agree, but for an explanation on cat color genetics, I think the correct term is appropriate.
- biggerfisch 7y agoWe call people with orange hair "redheads" so, I don't think this is that different
- WorldMaker 7y agoOrange is a relatively much younger word than red (Middle English versus Old English with direct lineage from "Low" German/Proto-Germanic/…/Proto-Indo-European), deriving from the fruit (rather than some may assume the other way around). Orange entered the English language from French royalty (who could afford imported oranges), so arguably Orange is the more historically pretentious color word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word)
- dacohenii 7y agoThis is only tangentially related, but Veritasium has a fantastic video that discusses the genetics behind the random color patterns of calico cats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw