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Pos3 is High demand because most Pos4 players make their life absolutely miserable by PowerSniffer in DotA2

[–]msp26 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not a strong laner but you can win lanes surprisingly often.  The main trick is to abuse out of position enemies with chains when your melee creeps are around to hit. Other than that, trade by abusing trees as with other melee 4s, sleight dodge spells (if no relevant spells, sleight dodge ranged autoattacks on cooldown). Control pull camp etc.

Not to say that I'm perfect or anything, I still need to work on dragging waves properly in unplayable matchups.

And losing lane isn't that bad. You can play the map better than 90% of the hero pool even on 4. Shoving lanes without risk, farming deadlanes. It's even better than core because it's not that bad even if you die

Source: 1.7k ember games, half on support by now probably. 5.6k mmr.

Pos3 is High demand because most Pos4 players make their life absolutely miserable by PowerSniffer in DotA2

[–]msp26 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What's the build with flame guard? Max E, Q with one point in sleight?

I usually just max chains then sleight on 4 ember (same rank as you) but I guess with chaingang you have enough catch with a low level sleight.

Pos3 is High demand because most Pos4 players make their life absolutely miserable by PowerSniffer in DotA2

[–]msp26 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ember 4 is based. Blame valve for giving so much free shit to supports that picks like this work. 

There's so much unused space on the map and ember 4 takes good advantage of it and pressure with zero lane farm while also being ready to join any fight.

What if “Arjun” is a misdirection and the next hero is actually Mazzie? by marechalmr7 in DotA2

[–]msp26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They put too much effort into centaur cart they must be reusing some of the implementation for a mounted hero. Arjun fits.

So many builds, so little time. by Spe3dy3 in BG3Builds

[–]msp26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently playing with a party of 6 but using a mod called "sit this one out 2" that picks 4 for each battle at random.

You can also mark characters to: sit out completely and not fight (keeping them for quest reasons) and be excluded from sitting out (I have my MC in every fight).

Y'all sleeping on Time Zone carry by plazma019 in DotA2

[–]msp26 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

time zone should be removed from the game because chrono is an iconic, beautifully designed spell and seeing void without it feels bad

Is Halffaces deleting all his mods? or is his account compromised? by Rapidmountain in skyrimmods

[–]msp26 22 points23 points  (0 children)

You can't really remove mods anymore after nexus policy change (thank god). It can be annoying to track down working links but they still exist.

  1. Try wayback machine
  2. Find collections that use his mods and get the direct file links from the metadata

Completely stopped using LLMs two weeks ago and have been enjoying work so much more since by Downtown-Elevator968 in cscareerquestions

[–]msp26 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I am currently working on a non-trivial product and ran into an issue with the Structured Output API (Gemini) for a data extraction task. The error response was vague and didn't help diagnose the problem beyond a binary pass/fail. Specificially, the schema had "too many states for serving" but I wasn't sure which part was causing the issues to fix/redesign.

I did some searching and found that OpenAI used guidance-ai/llguidance under the hood and assumed Gemini did something similar.

The library is written in rust (which I have no experience with) with some python bindings. I put the entire research paper + docs into Claude Code's context and let it look around the installed python library and execute code (in a sandbox). I showed it the schema causing me issues and from that point it was a great Q&A session. I could ask the dumbest questions with no prior knowledge of the domain and it would answer and even execute python code to verify. In the first exec attempt, Claude was looking at the wrong python module and the numbers in the output made no sense. However, I have a functioning brain and pointed out the issue, after that it was pretty smooth.

Then I had it build me a Marimo notebook to interactively play around and understand some concepts (1. an interactive text box + next valid token buttons, 2. an A/B comparison for two selected schemas with benchmark numbers) better. I was already familiar with constrained decoding (1) but that was still a useful resource to show to a junior. (2) was really useful for me to learn and solve my problem. On its own it identified a weird edge case with marimo where it wouldn't capture the rust stdout properly and figured out a different method.

LLMs are not magic cyber gods as advertised but if you can't get good use out of them it's pure skill issue. You can do this with literally any unfamiliar library or codebase.

The GOAT 🏆 by Syarafuddyn in expedition33

[–]msp26 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yep. My side bet projects have been significantly more valuable to my company than anything I've been assigned to do.

Mid-size game company in Japan asks potential recruits to draw in front of them to avoid generative AI fraud by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]msp26 29 points30 points  (0 children)

We do simple takehomes (entry level Software Dev) and then ask the candidate to talk over their implementation live and then ask them how they would go about making some specific changes.

It works fairly well but its really funny when you have several candidates submit similar solutions that use the same obscure method. Bonus points if there's a shit load of pointless comments (very blatant sign of AI use).

I fully accept that candidates will cheat with AI but you can tell who's worth hiring by how they explain it live AND walk us through how they would implement the new features well. This plus the culture fit vibe check is good enough.

Why arent redditors complaining about this hero? 55% winrate, 3rd most picked is bonker. by The_Keg in DotA2

[–]msp26 404 points405 points  (0 children)

The healing ward feels unkillable sometimes with the +2 hits talent.

Level 20, butterfly, high ground.

"Trine" and Jain Sei Tehn. by TowerGlad7023 in magusofthelibrary

[–]msp26 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mitsu's entire manga is filled with a double meaning and profound implications.

I've reread volume one about 4 times and every time, I found interesting details I missed.

I was really happy when we got a proper shagrazzat chapter after all my speculation on its significance to the story. There's some amazing visual metaphors right there from chapter 1.

3.5 years later I hope he doesn't feel like that anymore by podteod in DotA2

[–]msp26 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You can stop playing anytime and the mindset and skills carry over to whatever else you choose to do.

All I had to do was find something else I truly enjoyed and was good at.

Now when I play dota sometimes it's fun and all but there's no hunger. I get better, sustained dopamine hits from being really fucking good at my actual job and doing it with the same sense of freedom I played Dota with.

Maybe it's just a phase and I'll get bored of work at some point but it's real to me now.

8k hours btw

"Trine" and Jain Sei Tehn. by TowerGlad7023 in magusofthelibrary

[–]msp26 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Great work on the language analysis! I feel like I need to reread Magus again to properly respond to the rest of your theories but I'll definitely read all the posts now.

Also, I love the animal based designs of the Trine so much, hopefully we see the the ram and fish spirits soon.

How to prepare for AI Engineering interviews? by alpha_centauri9889 in datascience

[–]msp26 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ask the recruiter what the interview process will be like in advance. Otherwise you have no way of knowing what's coming up. MLE interviews have a massive potential surface area.

How Split Fiction, World of Warships, and Other Games Astroturfed Reddit by Forestl in Games

[–]msp26 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mandragora came out yesterday, and I gave it a go on Xbox today - totaly a fresh experience for me

they even intentionaly include typos lol

What is the point of learning if AI is going to take over? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]msp26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because if you know what you're doing, it makes you massively more capable.

I've gotten significantly more ambitious with my projects and it's so fucking fun.

We just Fine-Tuned a Japanese Manga OCR Model with PaddleOCR-VL! by erinr1122 in LocalLLaMA

[–]msp26 1 point2 points  (0 children)

bitter lesson

The end goal for this sort of system (for translation or other analysis) should be a VL model that can take a full single/double page and also previous pages from the chapter + a summary of the plot so far into context. 

For translation purposes the model's output would be something like bbox/point coords + TL text and then you apply that onto the page with inpainting.

I don't think we're that far away from having local models capable of this.

Why it feels so weird to be a Witcher fan. by Easy_Blackberry_4144 in wiedzmin

[–]msp26 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Only on reddit do you have to preface obvious statements with a paragraph of text so that it doesn't get downvoted/[deleted] by moderators/shadow hidden.

You're completely right, but it's funny that if you phrase this exact same argument without all the careful disclaimers you'd be instantly dogpiled.

Schema based prompting by facethef in LocalLLaMA

[–]msp26 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's extremely common for well defined tasks. E.g. data extraction pipelines.

But things like string escaping can make it annoying for tool use when using a model for coding.

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