Jan 8, 2022 3:24 AM
Oscarwildebastardson
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Dipsomaniac
I went to uni with a girl who was amazingly good at spectrograhpics and she could name a wavelength on seeing the colour to +/- 5 nanometre.
ObeyTheFist
stickywiggit
I can manipulate tiny delicate objects fractions of millimeters with either hand. I sometimes forget which hand is dominant
woderwoman
As a lab tech I would weigh so many things. Now when I bake I get the amount I need on the first try. 50g butter? BOOM, 158g sugar? BOOM
GinOClock
Yeah baby, I'm in this boat too. Sulfur, sugar and acid all have a visual correspondence to the weight for me too
Falcrist
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? WHY DO YOU KNOW THIS?" Yea I ask myself that same question sometimes.
SqueezitTheClown
Norrah
Within 10mins of talking with a programmer, I can tell - within a few days - how many months I need to add on any of his/her time estimates.
ethicallysourcedcannedtuna
I make maps for a living and I am not NEARLY this good but it really does become like a weird flex that I can get pretty close.
jcw0207
Computer nerd boomer here. I could read binary ASCII values in punched paper tape or punch cards.
ImSorryIfYouGotOffended
I was able to play couple songs using the number pads in the 90s to early 00s
Ialwayslookhungover
With a little training you could become a phone phreaker.
NacLac
You are the touch tone genius? https://youtu.be/6GSHvi1kZb4
MidnightTacoTruck
YayItsMillerTime
You're the worst character ever towelie
KeylessChuck
3212333222399321233322321
giantkel
Mary had a little lamb?
Yup.
PlanetForScale
I own a tea company and can weigh measures of various density teas and herbs within a half gram without using a scale.
Herbs, you say...
Fejerro
I've gotten very good at foosball at my job. We have a table and I have played at least 1 game every day for the past 5 years.
AntiProtonBoy
Graphics programmer here, I can relate. It’s a blessing & a curse. Curse cos when playing games, I can’t unsee fuckups other devs made.
Rathner
*Gap in worldtile*
DamnAllTheseNamesAreTaken
I can make my calculator say BOOBIES
afatrollofmyown
I can draw a perfect circle.
VirtualNaut
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! WHY DO YOU KNOW THIS!!
falconuruguay1
I used to be able to recite from memory, all of the toll-free phone numbers for the major telephone carriers in the U.S., both home and cell
GravyEducation
Mine is accurately getting a headcount on a large room in a couple seconds, from my wedding service days
stink3rbelle
damn I'd love to have that skill
DontTazeMeBrah
I come in here, and the first thing I'm doing is I'm catching the sightlines and looking for an exit. v
TFW you walk into an unfamiliar restaurant looking for your already seated family
Ever thought of being a spy?
zeiji
i remember the win 98 key, cus spend my teen's in a LAN reformatting twice a week. K4HVD-Q9TJ9-6CRX9-C9G68-RQ2D3
dmf81
fm9fy tmf7q kckct v9t29 tbbbg
pixelsnader
Fckgw rhqq2 yxrkt 8tg6w 2b7q8
ChewbaccaFCSP
Thanks for the free win 98, nerd.
That’s. Mmhm. That’s amazing.
RandomLinkingBook
I can't even remember my last job's 8 digit employee number that I punched in every day for 2 years to start my shift
Here’s to getting old
Acc87
BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND cheat code for "unlock everything" on Turok2 for N64. Lives rent free in my brain.
I could not speak English back then
Thristen
Saaaame! I also remember a bunch of codes for Glover, but only by the sound the buttons made.
tesseract4d2
Left, up, left, up, down, up, square, triangle (code for moon physics in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2)
krazyname
I can do the same thing with pantone color!
CarpetheCarp
Part of my job is graphic design. I’ve been doing it over a decade. I can tell you the names of fonts at a glance.
uniqueusernamesarehard
Do you also hate bank gothic?
Absolutely. And Jenna Sue. Soooooo over used.
Hear hear!
FrostByteUK
As an engineer: I heard my friend over discord accidentally drop an Allen key... I told him what size it was from the sound it made.
Thefsm
I used to be a bra fitter. I got to the point I could accurately guess a woman’s bra size without needing to measure.
Iloveanonymityandilovebeingnoticed
I told someone I probably need a 30b & they were like”no you need a 32a”. Thanks but that’s too loose around and too small a cup.
People go up a back size and down a cup size or vice versa sometimes for the perfect fit. Also depends on how far apart your breasts are.
partlyclaudie
I used to know the 4-digit codes of all the matboard colors we had at the frame shop -- even the blacks and whites
CatEyebrows
C9616, C9502, C9800. I have so many in head too!
Fun fact: The UK's national train network's station elevators control panels are C9001....
SpamYarBlockers
Did you carry Void, by Armani?
Longbowgun
There are 212 ways to kill a person using 1 hand. 12 are painless.
RobertTheBruise
Would you be so kind as to list the other 200 ways?
v
PunchInTheDicker
I would like to hear of these 12
AnonOmis1000
I feel like there's a lot more ways than that when you take into account heavy machinery
I guess I should have specified "without tools".
wozat
How many with the other hand?
TharrickLawson
nowhere near as many. society continues to discriminate against lefties
alternator43
No one expects a lefthanded assassin. No one can anticipate or block their strikes.
davemUnderscoreOr
Way back in time I took a type setting class where everything is backwards and upside down. For a while I could read fluently that way.
kraeftig
I can pretty readily read upside down because anxiety made me want to know what they were looking at. I can't read at a diagonal though.
badgateway502
¿ʎɐs sᴉɥʇ sǝop ʇɐɥM
HonestCommentFarmer
Don't insult my mother!
Captain77
I have a very good straight eye and can eyeball whether a shelf/painting etc needs to be adjusted to within a mm.
peterbozeman
Is this the opposite of queer eye?
Maybe it is ;)
HotMustard79
I was bullied in school, to the point I took notes for the bullies in class. I can write with both hands simultaneously.
nangke
Cool skill! but what a horrible circumstance that caused you to acquire it. I hope life's been better to you since then
Raeke
Most baristas can tell when milk has reached 140-145 degree Fahrenheit based on sound. Absolutely fucking useless skill
Oh shit, I didn't know I knew this!
Unless you're a barista. And along the same lines, though not as precise, most people can distinguish hot and cold water by sound.
https://youtu.be/Ri_4dDvcZeM
When I was drafting by hand (90's) I could draw a line to the millimeter without a scale. (I still checked with a scale to be sure)
The3rdwheel
as a drafter myself. i could draw perfect circles of any measurments without a circle guage as well as perfectly straight lines
ObliqueRay
'90s or 90s. Not 90's.
Liechsowagan
Correct. The apostrophe marks a contraction, not possession.
DildoMussolini
19'90s
ShamalamaDingDing
boevis
I can do the same thing, but within 1/16" for distance from my Earthshaker Cannon. Cadia Stands.
MrNailbrain
I had a friends’ dad that was unreasonably talented at guess ranges with his 40k artillery. He was a historical naval gamer beforehand.
Correctedbehavior
Same but for charge distance in warmachine
Amazing!!
CampbellsChunkyCyst
"Uhm, excuse me I asked for an IPA on draft."
p3culiar15
I bet your hand writing will be super awesome. Thank you for drafting by hand.
Ha. I use a computer now so I have not used a lettering guide in ages. But, I still letter in all caps whenever I write.
I know. I got my hand on the power eraser and The architect explain it to me how they used it back in the day. I love vellum drafting paper
As a machinist, I hope your hand writing was just as precise. I've seen some barely legible chicken scratch on prints.
HereIsThere
A proper drafter learns how to draw their letters. Probably the most generally useful skill I picked up from my various drafting classes.
Didn't help they had also been photo copied to hell
modi123
Photo copied? Heck it was all about mimeographs and ditto machines!
maincarrot
and faxed, then reduced 10%, faxed, then enlarged back, liquefied in photoshop, sharpened 1000%, mosaic filter, and faxed back.
Zadwanaa
As a CAD drafter.. you have my upmost respect
tiffwhaaa
Shouldn't that be utmost?
Well, my respect for hand drafters is up more than most
TimeForAnUpgrade
Yep. Here’s my utvote
zFUBARz
Good man that TimeForAnUtgrade.
GentleBen1901
When working in a microbiology lab I got very good at opening and then closing screw top bottles one handed (an essential skill)
THat's neat as heck!
likewise. do you also struggle to do it with your dominant hand?
Totally! It is my non-dominant hand only for this skill. Need the other for pipette skillz!
cryborg
Did he get it exactly? It's hard to see on my phone. That is amazing. There are 16,581,375 different colors.
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
The square on the left shows the actual colour.. He got it, if not spot on, pretty close.
Kittyswitch
I mean, it looks pretty close to me.
SwankyPotato
256^3=16.777.216, but I must admit I thought the RGB color space was much smaller
Ah yes. Zeroes.
Ricobe9
There's also a system to the colour codes, so by knowing it's in the greyish green area, he can give an estimated guess on the number
AwesomeName
You need some expensive equipment to check if he got it down to the bit. But having a naked-eye match is impressive enough.
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Ticmea
Getting the color this close is certainly very impressive but it is totally doable and therefore believable.
Tenugui
I don't think you can get it 'exactly' unless the nail polish manufacturer uses RGB color values to represent their pigmented products
joot
You could take s picture of it, and pick it up with the dropper tool.
Also, that approach is only as good as the lighting conditions when you take the picture.
Pigment and light have different value systems. There are lots of 'close enough' approaches, but no 'exact' matches.
TeaOverdose
that would be surprising since rgb is light and nailpolish is material.
ElSephiroth
You know that material reflect light. I mean, that is why your screen uses RGB to show you things, because it looks like materials.
Darjanator
If I shine white light or blue light on the same material, the reflected colour will be different. Even slightly shaded light will have
a different reflection. That's the reason why this is bullshit.
Color as light doesn't react the same way as color as material. That's why we have RGB for screens and CMYK for printing. Color theory 101.
source: I had to pass like five different color classes to graduate. You can google color as light vs pigment.
Dipsomaniac
I went to uni with a girl who was amazingly good at spectrograhpics and she could name a wavelength on seeing the colour to +/- 5 nanometre.
ObeyTheFist
stickywiggit
I can manipulate tiny delicate objects fractions of millimeters with either hand. I sometimes forget which hand is dominant
woderwoman
As a lab tech I would weigh so many things. Now when I bake I get the amount I need on the first try. 50g butter? BOOM, 158g sugar? BOOM
GinOClock
Yeah baby, I'm in this boat too. Sulfur, sugar and acid all have a visual correspondence to the weight for me too
Falcrist
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? WHY DO YOU KNOW THIS?" Yea I ask myself that same question sometimes.
SqueezitTheClown
Norrah
Within 10mins of talking with a programmer, I can tell - within a few days - how many months I need to add on any of his/her time estimates.
ethicallysourcedcannedtuna
I make maps for a living and I am not NEARLY this good but it really does become like a weird flex that I can get pretty close.
jcw0207
Computer nerd boomer here. I could read binary ASCII values in punched paper tape or punch cards.
ImSorryIfYouGotOffended
I was able to play couple songs using the number pads in the 90s to early 00s
Ialwayslookhungover
With a little training you could become a phone phreaker.
NacLac
You are the touch tone genius? https://youtu.be/6GSHvi1kZb4
MidnightTacoTruck
YayItsMillerTime
You're the worst character ever towelie
KeylessChuck
3212333222399321233322321
giantkel
Mary had a little lamb?
KeylessChuck
Yup.
PlanetForScale
I own a tea company and can weigh measures of various density teas and herbs within a half gram without using a scale.
GinOClock
Herbs, you say...
Fejerro
I've gotten very good at foosball at my job. We have a table and I have played at least 1 game every day for the past 5 years.
AntiProtonBoy
Graphics programmer here, I can relate. It’s a blessing & a curse. Curse cos when playing games, I can’t unsee fuckups other devs made.
Rathner
*Gap in worldtile*
DamnAllTheseNamesAreTaken
I can make my calculator say BOOBIES
afatrollofmyown
I can draw a perfect circle.
VirtualNaut
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! WHY DO YOU KNOW THIS!!
Oscarwildebastardson
falconuruguay1
I used to be able to recite from memory, all of the toll-free phone numbers for the major telephone carriers in the U.S., both home and cell
GravyEducation
Mine is accurately getting a headcount on a large room in a couple seconds, from my wedding service days
stink3rbelle
damn I'd love to have that skill
DontTazeMeBrah
I come in here, and the first thing I'm doing is I'm catching the sightlines and looking for an exit.
v
GravyEducation
TFW you walk into an unfamiliar restaurant looking for your already seated family
SqueezitTheClown
Ever thought of being a spy?
GravyEducation
zeiji
i remember the win 98 key, cus spend my teen's in a LAN reformatting twice a week. K4HVD-Q9TJ9-6CRX9-C9G68-RQ2D3
dmf81
fm9fy tmf7q kckct v9t29 tbbbg
pixelsnader
Fckgw rhqq2 yxrkt 8tg6w 2b7q8
ChewbaccaFCSP
Thanks for the free win 98, nerd.
Oscarwildebastardson
That’s. Mmhm. That’s amazing.
RandomLinkingBook
I can't even remember my last job's 8 digit employee number that I punched in every day for 2 years to start my shift
Oscarwildebastardson
Here’s to getting old
RandomLinkingBook
Acc87
BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND cheat code for "unlock everything" on Turok2 for N64. Lives rent free in my brain.
Acc87
I could not speak English back then
Thristen
Saaaame! I also remember a bunch of codes for Glover, but only by the sound the buttons made.
tesseract4d2
Left, up, left, up, down, up, square, triangle (code for moon physics in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2)
krazyname
I can do the same thing with pantone color!
CarpetheCarp
Part of my job is graphic design. I’ve been doing it over a decade. I can tell you the names of fonts at a glance.
uniqueusernamesarehard
Do you also hate bank gothic?
CarpetheCarp
Absolutely. And Jenna Sue. Soooooo over used.
uniqueusernamesarehard
Hear hear!
FrostByteUK
As an engineer: I heard my friend over discord accidentally drop an Allen key... I told him what size it was from the sound it made.
Thefsm
I used to be a bra fitter. I got to the point I could accurately guess a woman’s bra size without needing to measure.
Iloveanonymityandilovebeingnoticed
I told someone I probably need a 30b & they were like”no you need a 32a”. Thanks but that’s too loose around and too small a cup.
Thefsm
People go up a back size and down a cup size or vice versa sometimes for the perfect fit. Also depends on how far apart your breasts are.
partlyclaudie
I used to know the 4-digit codes of all the matboard colors we had at the frame shop -- even the blacks and whites
CatEyebrows
C9616, C9502, C9800. I have so many in head too!
FrostByteUK
Fun fact: The UK's national train network's station elevators control panels are C9001....
SpamYarBlockers
Did you carry Void, by Armani?
Longbowgun
There are 212 ways to kill a person using 1 hand. 12 are painless.
RobertTheBruise
Would you be so kind as to list the other 200 ways?
DontTazeMeBrah
PunchInTheDicker
I would like to hear of these 12
AnonOmis1000
I feel like there's a lot more ways than that when you take into account heavy machinery
Longbowgun
I guess I should have specified "without tools".
wozat
How many with the other hand?
TharrickLawson
nowhere near as many. society continues to discriminate against lefties
alternator43
No one expects a lefthanded assassin. No one can anticipate or block their strikes.
davemUnderscoreOr
Way back in time I took a type setting class where everything is backwards and upside down. For a while I could read fluently that way.
kraeftig
I can pretty readily read upside down because anxiety made me want to know what they were looking at. I can't read at a diagonal though.
badgateway502
¿ʎɐs sᴉɥʇ sǝop ʇɐɥM
HonestCommentFarmer
Don't insult my mother!
Captain77
I have a very good straight eye and can eyeball whether a shelf/painting etc needs to be adjusted to within a mm.
peterbozeman
Is this the opposite of queer eye?
Captain77
Maybe it is ;)
HotMustard79
I was bullied in school, to the point I took notes for the bullies in class. I can write with both hands simultaneously.
nangke
Cool skill! but what a horrible circumstance that caused you to acquire it. I hope life's been better to you since then
Raeke
Most baristas can tell when milk has reached 140-145 degree Fahrenheit based on sound. Absolutely fucking useless skill
afatrollofmyown
Oh shit, I didn't know I knew this!
pixelsnader
Unless you're a barista. And along the same lines, though not as precise, most people can distinguish hot and cold water by sound.
pixelsnader
https://youtu.be/Ri_4dDvcZeM
peterbozeman
When I was drafting by hand (90's) I could draw a line to the millimeter without a scale. (I still checked with a scale to be sure)
The3rdwheel
as a drafter myself. i could draw perfect circles of any measurments without a circle guage as well as perfectly straight lines
ObliqueRay
'90s or 90s. Not 90's.
Liechsowagan
Correct. The apostrophe marks a contraction, not possession.
DildoMussolini
19'90s
ShamalamaDingDing
boevis
I can do the same thing, but within 1/16" for distance from my Earthshaker Cannon. Cadia Stands.
MrNailbrain
I had a friends’ dad that was unreasonably talented at guess ranges with his 40k artillery. He was a historical naval gamer beforehand.
Correctedbehavior
Same but for charge distance in warmachine
partlyclaudie
Amazing!!
CampbellsChunkyCyst
"Uhm, excuse me I asked for an IPA on draft."
p3culiar15
I bet your hand writing will be super awesome. Thank you for drafting by hand.
peterbozeman
Ha. I use a computer now so I have not used a lettering guide in ages. But, I still letter in all caps whenever I write.
p3culiar15
I know. I got my hand on the power eraser and The architect explain it to me how they used it back in the day. I love vellum drafting paper
AnonOmis1000
As a machinist, I hope your hand writing was just as precise. I've seen some barely legible chicken scratch on prints.
HereIsThere
A proper drafter learns how to draw their letters. Probably the most generally useful skill I picked up from my various drafting classes.
AnonOmis1000
Didn't help they had also been photo copied to hell
modi123
Photo copied? Heck it was all about mimeographs and ditto machines!
maincarrot
and faxed, then reduced 10%, faxed, then enlarged back, liquefied in photoshop, sharpened 1000%, mosaic filter, and faxed back.
Zadwanaa
As a CAD drafter.. you have my upmost respect
tiffwhaaa
Shouldn't that be utmost?
Zadwanaa
Well, my respect for hand drafters is up more than most
TimeForAnUpgrade
Yep. Here’s my utvote
zFUBARz
Good man that TimeForAnUtgrade.
GentleBen1901
When working in a microbiology lab I got very good at opening and then closing screw top bottles one handed (an essential skill)
afatrollofmyown
THat's neat as heck!
TharrickLawson
likewise. do you also struggle to do it with your dominant hand?
GentleBen1901
Totally! It is my non-dominant hand only for this skill. Need the other for pipette skillz!
cryborg
Did he get it exactly? It's hard to see on my phone. That is amazing. There are 16,581,375 different colors.
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
The square on the left shows the actual colour.. He got it, if not spot on, pretty close.
Kittyswitch
I mean, it looks pretty close to me.
SwankyPotato
256^3=16.777.216, but I must admit I thought the RGB color space was much smaller
cryborg
Ah yes. Zeroes.
Ricobe9
There's also a system to the colour codes, so by knowing it's in the greyish green area, he can give an estimated guess on the number
AwesomeName
You need some expensive equipment to check if he got it down to the bit. But having a naked-eye match is impressive enough.
[deleted]
[deleted]
Ticmea
Getting the color this close is certainly very impressive but it is totally doable and therefore believable.
Tenugui
I don't think you can get it 'exactly' unless the nail polish manufacturer uses RGB color values to represent their pigmented products
joot
You could take s picture of it, and pick it up with the dropper tool.
Tenugui
Also, that approach is only as good as the lighting conditions when you take the picture.
Tenugui
Pigment and light have different value systems. There are lots of 'close enough' approaches, but no 'exact' matches.
TeaOverdose
that would be surprising since rgb is light and nailpolish is material.
Tenugui
ElSephiroth
You know that material reflect light. I mean, that is why your screen uses RGB to show you things, because it looks like materials.
Darjanator
If I shine white light or blue light on the same material, the reflected colour will be different. Even slightly shaded light will have
Darjanator
a different reflection. That's the reason why this is bullshit.
TeaOverdose
Color as light doesn't react the same way as color as material. That's why we have RGB for screens and CMYK for printing. Color theory 101.
TeaOverdose
source: I had to pass like five different color classes to graduate. You can google color as light vs pigment.