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Nigel Timothy Barber retweeted
This was posted on Monday and went nowhere. Today it is on the front page. Thank you HN gods ;-)
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Hacker News thread for Rasterizer: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
Upvotes much appreciated.
Nigel Timothy Barber retweeted
Rasterizer, the 3rd iteration of my 2D GPU-accelerated vector graphics engine, is now available.
• Around 30x faster than Core Graphics
• Less than 4,000 lines of code
• CPU stages use efficient batch parallelism
• Quadratic Béziers solved on GPU
github.com/mindbrix/Rasteriz…
Nigel Timothy Barber retweeted
If you took 1 year a stopped reading the news or going on social media, and spent that same time reading books instead, do you think you'd be more happy or less happy?
87%More happy
13%Less happy
20,687 votes • Final results Nigel Timothy Barber retweeted
First version of climatearchive.org is now online! The app allows interactive access to more than 100 model simulations covering the climate history of the last 540 million years! It uses a WebGL renderer (@threejs) to visualize climate data in 3D in your browser.
Nigel Timothy Barber retweeted
SUVs have caused an extra 1100 pedestrian deaths between 2000 and 2019 with no corresponding increase in motorist safety, according to this new paper
My new paper Pedestrian Deaths and Large Vehicles was published in #Economics of #Transportation. I estimate the role of increasingly large vehicles on #pedestrian deaths in the US over the past 20 years. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecotra.202…
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My @360iDev talk has been unveiled. From the description you might think it's going to be one of those talks, and maybe you're right, but there's so much more to it. so much more going on, and so much more possible once we start: Seeing Higher Dimensions. 360idev.com/session/seeing-h…
Nigel Timothy Barber retweeted
RANDOM LIFE TIP:
1) get a pull up bar
2) just kinda hang off of it and let it just entirely unfuck your dumb nerd back
Nigel Timothy Barber retweeted
This is the COOLEST. A Google Earth-type representation of the planet. Every green dot is a radio station. Click any dot to listen in. It’s like cultural teleportation. You could spend hours with this thing… radio.garden
Nigel Timothy Barber retweeted
According to a study by the London School of Economics, 50 years worth of tax cuts contributed absolutely nothing to GDP growth and employment rates across 18 nations that tried 'trickle down economics', since the wealthiest hoard far more than they spend.
cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax-cut…
Being able to read your Swift variables in the debugger reliably would be even wilder. – at Beeston, England
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Nigel Timothy Barber retweeted
Tim Buckley performing Song to the Siren on the last ever episode of The Monkees tv show, 1968. I've posted this before, but it bears repeating because OH WOW ❤️❤️❤️
Nigel Timothy Barber retweeted
I've spoken to 2,000+ companies over the last 12 months about their plans for remote work going forward
Here are a few things I've learned
[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍
