If a decade worth of cost of living is considered minimal resources, successful indie games wouldn't be so disproportionately Scandinavian

>If a decade worth of cost of living is considered minimal resources

Compared to the mainstream AAA game cost it's less than minimal, it's pocket change.

And it's not like somebody handed him that money, he made it creating and selling games earlier.

Ok for a decade of a senior dev, that's still like $2mil. That's in the same order of magnitude as a small AA game.

Supposedly the dev budget for the last pokémon game Z-A was only $13 million.

As inefficient as encoding everything into the URI is, I really enjoy being able to bookmark and share specific filter configuration. More than one I've seen some sites with UI so bad, that manually editing the url is the easiest way to get it to do what i want.

Okay, I’m a little confused, the HTTP already supports 8000 octets, and some are having issues because they have too many filters?

Looking at the logs I see that most of the long URI traffic is due to UTM and other tracking related codes, which are mainly a way to work around 3rd party cookie blocks.

I must be missing something, because it sounds like to goal is to have longer URI without the need for encoding URL parameters, but without using POST.

Yes.

Suppose you have one filter but it has a few hundred twenty-character values.

Cough Splunk

Also another case is as a dev you are dealing with guids all day and it can be fast to swap guids around in the browser bar vs. ui steps.

> As inefficient as encoding everything into the URI is, I really enjoy being able to bookmark and share specific filter configuration.

That is perfectly fine. Sites that support path- and query-based filters are already designed specifically to have filters embedded in links, which are GET requests. The QUERY method is something more in line of a GraphQL style of query that isn't held back by the semantics of a POST request. GraphQL didn't invented this API style. If GraphQL-style APIs didn't affected how WebApps implemented links, QUERY methods won't.

Refraction is not as expensive as people would led you to believe. That said, this demo is ran at a very low resolution. Probably because it doesn't take devicePixelRatio into account. On my phone that's 3.5 so more than 12 times less pixels than would be required if you want crisp UI.

Tip: change the browser scale to 50% to double the demo's resolution

I don't like the lack of contrast either. But they have to use a small blur kernel otherwise the glass distortion would not be noticable

That's not hard to solve, you just need a good blending algorithm. For example: https://leloctai.com/asset/translucentimage/image/flatten.we...

Timing comparison with the reference is very disingenuous.

In raytracing, error scale with the square root of sample count. While it is typical to use very high sample count for the reference, real world sample count for offline renderer is about 1-2 orders of magnitude lower than in this paper.

I call it disingenuous because it is very usual for a graphic paper to include a very high sample count reference image for quality comparison, but nobody ever do timing comparison with it.

Since the result is approximate, a fair comparison would be with other approximate rendering algorithm. Modern realtime path tracer + denoiser can render much more complex scenes on consumer GPU in less than 16ms.

That's "much more complex scenes" part is the crucial part. Using transformer mean quadratic scaling on both number of triangles and number of output pixels. I'm not up to date with the latest ML research, so maybe it is improved now? But I don't think it will ever beat O(log n_triangles) and O(n_pixels) theoretical scaling of a typical path tracer. (Practical scaling wrt pixel count is sub linear due to high coherency of adjacent pixels)

Modern optimized path tracers in games (probably not Blender) also use rasterization for primary visibility, which is O(n_triangles), but is somehow even faster than doing pure path tracing. I guess because is reduces the number of samples required to resolve high frequency texture details. Global illumination by itself tends to produce very soft (low frequency) shadows and highlights, so not a lot of samples are required in theory, when the denoiser can avoid artifacts at low sample counts.

But yeah, no way RenderFormer in its current state can compete with modern ray tracing algorithms. Though the machine learning approach to rendering is still in its infancy.

I'm not very well versed in RE, but I know that competitive games like this spend a lot of effort in preventing you from attaching debuggers, hooking and decompilation.

By passing this is not mentioned at all in the article. Is this because they're trivial to bypass for experienced people, or because they want to hide their method from the dev?

Many such countries already block traffic with ECH entirely. There's no technical solutions to a polical problem.

I remember when you can just change your DNS provider to bypass censorship. Nowadays, browsers and OS provide safe DNS by default, and thus censors had mostly switched to DPI based method. As this cat and mouse game continue, inevitably these governments will mandate spyware on every machine.

These privacy enhancements invented by westerner only work for western citizens threat model.

Freedom of information is an existential threat to authoritarian states. There is no amount of money they're not willing to give up if it mean they stay in power.

That's said, it will not come to that. They'll just mandate spyware installation.

Doesn't seems like it was written by ChatGPT. I find that amusing somehow.

Perhaps some parts were written by ChatGPT, probably mixed up.