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Elden Ring, for one.


Seems crazy that progress has been so slow. I was playing games at 1080p, 72Hz/fps, literaly 21 years ago. The only games with a lock were games with hilariously broken physics engines.


You have some of the empty lat, lon data (e.g. AWS GovCloud (US)) interpreted as at (lat,lon) = (0,0), putting them incorrectly on Null Island.


Thanks, hidden.


One new way for swatting.

Send or otherwise inject problematic images to the target, but make sure the target can't see it (image too small, part of larger collage), but their device does. The target gets flagged by Apple for having CSAM.

The target gets FBI'd.



They fly their own planes these days.

https://blog.google/topics/inside-google/google-earths-incre...

Too bad it's a video. Fast forward about 2 minutes.

Or: https://youtu.be/suo_aUTUpps?t=121

Fly plane. Zig zag. 5 cameras, then photogrammetry. StreetView, from planes.


Not really effective for non-urban areas.


I'm not quite sure mmap is such a good idea if you're trying to have more low-level control over performance. Weird Carmack advocating this, because you can't really guarantee the latency of grabbing any resource if you incur a fault and need to grab it from disk.

See also the comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704911


He notes that reasonable hardware should have the performance margin to load a reasonable number of pages from a SSD without dropping a frame, which seems a very good plan. Looking forward to actual tests, of course.

Considering that prefetching schemes allow the programmer to spread asset loading evenly over many frames, and cheap rendering approximations can be used in troublesome frames, there should also be enough low-level control.


> reasonable hardware should have the performance margin to load a reasonable number of pages from a SSD without dropping a frame

My disks are usually encrypted though and sometimes I can choose faster or slower encryption methods (thus affecting throughput when loading). I don't see how this can work reliably without forcing the user to reserve specific disk areas just for GPU assets.


Why aren't you using a self-encrypting SSD?


Just guessing, but from my reading it sounds like the aim is to maintain generally good frame rates and not worry too much about dropped frames due to page faults, since those will be rare. Presumably the idea is to rely on ATW so that when frames do get dropped, it's imperceptible.


It doesn't mean that everything has to be done like this, only that it would be an available feature. Even then you could touch memory to make sure it is available.


Speaking of Hugo Award, all these reminds me too much of Iain Banks's The Player of Games.

An outsider, new to the game, had managed to pick up and challenge top players successfully in a venerated game.

The reactions of community to this is uncannily similar.


I wonder how hard it is to cause a very spiky, targeted temporary network outage (DDoS, etc) and use it to correlate with which Dark web sites relies on which physical network. With enough random events, it's probably possible to pin down the location, unless you have more than a host or move around a bit.


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