Entries tagged with graphics

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Interesting Links for 29-11-2023

1. How Dave Gibbons went from being a building surveyor to one of the best known comics artists, and why he letters his own comics: (tags:comics art letter history )
2. I have long felt that autism isn't one thing, but a collection of things which produce similar traits. Looks like the research is swinging that way.: (tags:autism research psychology )
3. Some people might find this house too avant garde, but I think that being able to accept parcel deliveries without getting off the toilet would be very handy: Seriously though, do estate agents just heave a massive sigh when they take a look around these places?
(tags:housing toilets wtf )
4. How Jensen Huang's Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution: (tags:ai graphics history technology )
5. There is no evidence that the Internet strongly affects wellbeing or mental health globally: (tags:internet mentalhealth )
6. The User Interface failures that lead to an airliner being shot down by accident: (tags:ui epicfail iran usa military death )
7. Restaurants Are Using Tinder Profiles to Lure Diners In: (tags:restaurant dating fraud wtf )

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Interesting Links for 22-10-2022

1. The facts around former PMs' £115,000 annual 'allowance': (tags:money politics uk FactCheck )
2. Tories admitted to no oversight of ballot when members pick new prime minister (pet tortoises are totall eligible): (tags:politics Conservatives voting fraud )
3. Where does JK Rowling stand on alliances with the far right?: (tags:LGBT transgender politics racism jkrowling bigotry )
4. The Conservatives are 5 parties fighting each other to death. We'd all be better off if they could split: (tags:politics conservatives UK )
5. Shooty gun games look pretty amazing (Amsterdam in this case): (tags:games graphics )
6. Queen, Bowie & Annie Lennox - Under Pressure rehearsal ,1992 .: With George Michael singing along on the sidelines
(tags:Queen video music DavidBowie )
7. The world's energy situation is not as terrible as you might expect: (tags:electricity energy )
8. Tory leadership: How secure is the online vote?: (tags:voting conservatives security internet )

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Interesting Links for 23-09-2022

1. Amazon will no longer let people instantly return ebooks they've read: (tags:ebooks Amazon publishing )
2. More Democrats Than Ever Support The Palestinian Cause, And That's Dividing The Party: (tags:Israel Palestine USA democrats )
3. Scotland's no-fracking policy to continue: (tags:Scotland fracking GoodNews )
4. Far too much advice about photography: (tags:photography advice )
5. 32 examples of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie being the peak of comedy: (tags:comedy UK TV history )
6. What does Covid prevention look like for an industry where people care about it?: (tags:business Pandemic testing )
7. Using AI to upgrade the graphics quality of old games: (tags:games graphics ai video amazing viaSwampers )
8. Rape posts every half-hour found on online incel forum: (tags:rape communication internet OhForFucksSake men )
9. The UK now charges more tax to a graduate than a high earner: (tags:tax UK university OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4123613.html

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Interesting Links for 11-12-2021

"10 years late, I have fallen in love with Dark Souls, and you can too": (tags:games )
Brutal review of Michelin-starred restaurant Bros' goes viral: (tags:restaurant review funny )
New Zealand unanimously passes gender self-ID law in trans rights win: (tags:LGBT transgender newzealand )
Which early hominid are you? (I got homo sapiens sapiens, which delighted me): (tags:neanderthal prehistory quiz ViaDrCross )
The TikTok Couch Guy on what it's like to be investigated on the internet.: (tags:privacy internet socialmedia OhForFucksSake )
"The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience" makes it clear how impressive modern games can look: (tags:games graphics matrix )
Computers revolutionized chess - Magnus Carlsen wins by being human: (tags:chess games AI humans )
What it's like when your brain starts working properly for the first time: (tags:adhd brain )
How do you do on the digit span memory test? (I top out at 8, and seem to use auditory memory to hold them): (tags:memory numbers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4113778.html

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Interesting Links for 17-11-2021

Racism Is Institutional In British Cricket: (tags:UK cricket racism OhForFucksSake )
Supersaurus: Scientists realise dinosaur might have been the longest ever after fixing fossil mix-up: (tags:dinosaurs )
Chile wants to export solar energy to Asia via 15,000km submarine cable (losses would be just under 50%): (tags:solarpower chile Asia )
Joanna Cherry's popularity is not going up: (tags:LGBT SNP transgender politics Scotland )
Englandâs austerity-hit courts losing days of work to collapsing ceilings, broken lift and arctic conditions: (tags:justice UK OhForFucksSake )
There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada: (tags:Canada transport roads weather )
Remarkably accurate neurosurgery residency interview: (tags:medicine USA surgery doctors funny satire video interview )
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick told an employee he would have her killed. He kept an exec from being fired after a sexual harassment claim. He didn't tell his board of alleged rapes and other misconduct.: (tags:games rape abuse misogyny OhForFucksSake )
John Carmack on Steve Jobs: (tags:Doom games Apple stevejobs johncarmack history computers graphics opengl )
Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in UK: (tags:UK Amazon visa credit wtf )
The students losing thousands in an Edinburgh rental scam: (tags:edinburgh property fraud )
âClear riskâ UK joining Pacific trade deal will raise drug prices for NHS: (tags:uk nhs trade )
The FTC is moving to end âclick to subscribe, call to cancelâ: (tags:business usa )
Netflix has started publishing its top 10 watched movies and TV shows: (tags:netflix )
Dogs! Being! Kissed!: (tags:dogs behaviour )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3989657.html

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Interesting Links for 24-01-2021

Star Trek: The Original Lyrics: (tags:StarTrek music lyrics )
Facebook Is Showing Military Gear Ads Next To Insurrection Posts: (tags:facebook OhForFucksSake coup military terrorism advertising )
Indyref2: SNP reveal 'roadmap' to another independence referendum: (tags:independence referendum SNP Scotland )
How would you connect a modern graphics card to a 40-year-old original IBM PC?: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1352715917889658880.html
(tags:computers graphics history )
Seals playing in ridiculously big waves: (tags:animals Ocean play video )
In the middle of the 80s a gay man wrote a subversive parable about standing up for your chosen identity. And then the Little Mermaid saved Disney animation: (tags:Disney LGBT history identity movies )
Investigating "fat but fit" (longitudinal study of 500,000 people): (tags:obesity health weight )
How Long Does a Bottle of Wine Last After It Is Opened?: (tags:wine air oxygen )
Why have so many brands changed their logos to look bland and unrecognisable?: (tags:design branding logo fonts )
The pandemic projections look hopeful for the UK: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1353270197935812608.html
(tags:UK pandemic thefuture )
Do you suffer from friendship degradation? (I'm pretty sure I don't): (tags:friendship psychology adhd )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3778219.html

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Interesting Links for 02-04-2019

Dubstep artist Skrillex could protect against mosquito bites: (tags:music mosquito sound )
Scotland's groundbreaking new domestic abuse law comes into force: (tags:Scotland abuse law GoodNews )
The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked: (tags:language France )
The sexes don't feel pain the same way: (tags:gender pain )
China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations: (tags:rights china UnitedNations OhForFucksSake )
Bookmakers accused of bypassing FOBT rules with roulette-style games: Would one alternative be to ban gambling on random number generators? Insist on games having some kind of skill involved?
(tags:gambling uk )
I know almost nothing about console emulators or graphics, but I found this fascinating and deeply impressive nevertheless: (tags:emulation consoles graphics )
More publications should give this kind of advice on pitching stories to them: (tags:journalism advice )
Canada warming at twice the global rate (three times, in its North): (tags:Canada globalwarming doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3759783.html

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Interesting Links for 19-01-2019

We are undergoing UK political failure on a grand scale.: (tags: UK europe politics doom )
Raytraced Quake II makes me want to buy a ludicrously expensive new graphics card: (tags: games graphics )
Top tip, if you're going to murder someone don't wear a GPS tracker...: (tags: GPS running murder )
AeroMexico's new 'DNA Discount' ad goes viral: (tags: Mexico genetics flight holidays advertising )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3747058.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3711833.html

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Interesting Links for 04-08-2018

Anne Lister: Plaque to 'first modern lesbian' sparks anger: (tags: lgbt lesbians UK history )
Why "tax the robots" is a really stupid answer to job automation: (tags: automation tax economics Technology )
Tokyo Medical University lowered women’s test scores because it was a “necessary evil”: (tags: japan women OhForFucksSake healthcare )
The goat apocalypse is upon us!: (tags: Goats apocalypse doom )
I will root antisemites out of Labour – they do not speak for me - Jeremy Corbyn: (tags: Labour Jews israel )
Your reminder that "No Deal" is much much worse than reverting to WTO rules.: (tags: trade UK Europe doom )
Ofcom report finds worrying stats about UK internet use: (tags: UK internet )
Incredibly impressive rendering. I'd have believed the diamonds were a photo: (tags: graphics impressive )
The Lib Dem Immigration Policy Paper is Not Fit For Purpose: (tags: libdem immigration OhForFucksSake )
Edinburgh council puts forward three visions of the city centre, to see what the public want: (tags: transport edinburgh )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3670053.html

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Interesting Links for 20-03-2018

How different languages agree and disagree, and why Latin didn't have a "yes" or "no": (tags: language )
'I forget my PE kit deliberately' - the boys who hate sport. (This was me. It put me off exercise for decades): (tags: sports school )
Bulk Resize Photos is an awesome tool: (tags: web photography size )
DirectX Raytracing is the first step toward a graphics revolution: (tags: graphics Technology )
Although they can’t tell us about it, infants can reason: (tags: babies logic thinking )
We can read each other's emotions from surprisingly tiny changes in facial colour: (tags: colour faces emotion )
Say Her Name: Marielle Franco, a Brazilian Politician Who Fought for Women and the Poor, Was Killed. Her Death Sparked Protests Across Brazil: (tags: murder racism brazil poverty police )
Dimethandrolone undecanoate shows promise as a male birth control pill: (tags: contraception hormones men )
Scrap 'highly regressive' council tax: (tags: tax uk )
MPs call for 12 weeks of paternity leave to address gender pay gap: (tags: men children gender inequality )
Police chief: Uber self-driving car likely not at fault in fatal crash: (tags: cars automation death )
Pregnant women and new moms still hesitant to introduce peanut products: (tags: babies allergies peanuts )
U.K., Land of ‘Brexit,’ Quietly Outsources Some Surgeries to France: (tags: France NHS OhForFucksSake UK austerity )
The world’s last male northern white rhino has died, aged 45: (tags: rhino extinction )
Watch Cambridge Analytica’s CEO Offer to Entrap Political Opponents With Sex Workers: (tags: sexwork crime OhForFucksSake corruption )
Project Pica Pica shows off new real-time ray-tracing tech: (tags: graphics Technology games )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3663763.html

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Interesting Links for 27-02-2018

Norwegian lessons for Brexit Britain - could the EEA be the answer we're looking for?: (tags: europe uk )
The Vulkan graphics API is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple: (tags: graphics apple )
No affordable housing is being built in Manchester city centre - and the local Labour council is not improving things: (tags: labour manchester housing OhForFucksSake )
An AI just beat top lawyers at their own game: (tags: ai law )
24 per cent drop in road casualties since 20mph rolled out in Edinburgh: (tags: transport safety speed Edinburgh GoodNews scotland )
Harry Potter wizard school will open in East Lothian this summer: (tags: harrypotter scotland )
Labour still want to end freedom of movement: (tags: Labour Europe UK immigration OhForFucksSake )
Why Remain can’t understand Leave: (tags: Europe uk empathy rules )
Brexit: Labour plan to keep UK in customs union with EU is 'an option not a commitment', says Corbyn's team: (tags: uk europe labour )
On the seraphic terror of the two scariest entities in popular fantasy literature: Tom Bombadil and The Sorting Hat.: (tags: lotr harrypotter )
Moana is an inversion of The Little Mermaid: (tags: Disney movies )
'They Don't Want to Include Women Like Me.' Sex Workers Say They're Being Left Out of the #MeToo Movement: (tags: abuse sexwork OhForFucksSake society )
Woman Who Lied to Police About 3 Black Men Raping and Kidnapping Her Faces Zero Years in Prison: (tags: racism USA fraud rape OhForFucksSake )
‘Frankenstein’ Manuscript Shows the Evolution of Mary Shelley’s Monster: (tags: history scifi horror frankenstein writing )
Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights?: (tags: sleep materials )
How Girls and Women "Camouflage" Their Autism: (tags: autism women psychology society )
Counting to one million would take me 55 days. How about you?: (tags: numbers time viaElfy )
Being motivated doesn't increase your IQ test score: (tags: motivation iq Intelligence )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3636888.html

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Interesting Links for 24-11-2017

Tesla completes world's largest lithium ion battery in Australia: (tags: australia batteries power )
How to read reviews: (tags: reviews games )
The Conservatives are the party of high UK borrowing and low debt repayment: (tags: conservatives money fail )
It’s called effective altruism – but is it really the best way to do good?: (tags: altruism effectiveness charity )
SF doesn’t really make you stupid. It’s more that if you’re stupid enough to be biased against SF you will read SF stupidly.: (tags: scifi reading psychology )
The Financial Realities of Going Viral: (tags: money Fame viral )
"My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community": Good Lord. An _actual_ apology!
(tags: apology sexism Technology china usa )
Why the UK will not be speaking Arabic in a decade.: (tags: language uk arabic immigration )
A History of Music, through the medium of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky": (tags: music history )
'I'm not going to listen to you any more' - Confronting an avatar on a computer screen helped patients hearing voices to cope better with schizophrenic hallucinations: (tags: schizophrenia avatars hallucinations )
What's going on in Saudi Arabia (an interview with the crown prince): (tags: saudiarabia )
Call of Duty: WW2's takes a huge step in rendering faces: (tags: faces graphics games )
Medical Marijuana users reduce their opioid consumption dramatically: (tags: marijuana drugs pain )
Observations of an ex pat: The Middle East explained: (tags: middle_east )
Chess, memory training and music just make you better at chess, memory training and music: (tags: games memory music psychology learning )
Why I wish Kez Dugdale well for her jungle stint: (tags: labour tv scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3624276.html

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Interesting Links for 11-10-2017

Heads-up, ceos: Corporate social responsibility may get you fired: (tags: society work success )
The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection: (tags: security data google microsoft )
Frankie Muniz doesn't remember starring on 'Malcolm in the Middle': (tags: tv memory brain )
When did it become unacceptable for celebrities to rape people? and is political correctness to blame?: (tags: rape society celebrity )
The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank: (tags: Firefox graphics computers browser )
The Rock Test: A Hack for Men Who Don’t Want To Be Accused of Sexual Harassment: (tags: assault harassment advice men satire )
The Lush Billion-Tree Spectacle of China's Great Green Wall: (tags: China desert trees )
MPs shocked to discover how many jobs work: (tags: work uk )
A list of myths about the European Union: (tags: Europe myths )
US Drug ads gloss over risks with a mind trick—that’s backed by the FDA: (tags: drugs safety usa advertising )
Viking Age script deciphered – is ancient Arabic, and mentions ‘Allah’ and ‘Ali’: (tags: islam viking history )
Huge effect of ethnicity on life chances revealed in official UK figures: (tags: uk ethnicity society work success )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3536019.html

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Interesting Links for 20-12-2016

Don't dismiss Simon Jenkins as a strident identity apostle. He's right: men are people too!: (tags: patriarchy society uk satire )
People who are already off work having massive orgy this afternoon: (tags: work christmas fun )
India's economy surpasses United Kingdom: (tags: uk india economy )
A list of inventors killed by their own inventions: (tags: invention death lists )
Grids of defects make diamonds practical for quantum computing: (tags: diamonds quantum computers )
Can You Tell if These Still Life Objects Are Real or Rendered?: (tags: cgi graphics art )
New study reveals how nurse staffing levels link to patient outcomes: (tags: healthcare )
In defence of "Baby it's cold outside": (tags: music history society )
Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil: (tags: solarpower oil energy economics )
Disney breaks $7bn global box office record for 2016 (Disney + Star Wars + Marvel = Ka-Ching!): (tags: money Disney movies marvel StarWars )