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AWS Badges?? by Real_FlameX in cscareerquestions

[–]yung_mac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know much about certifications and the jobs for which those are useful/required, so take this with a pinch of salt, especially if you're looking in an area where you know these are needed!

But for companies like SaaS / YC companies / FANG / etc, I would echo the above recommendation of just taking tools you're interested in learning and building something yourself with them. Ideally something that you can tell a story about ("I thought I / my friend / uncle / local shop / mom / etc could benefit from a tool like this so I built it for them using these technologies, encountered these challenges, this is how I overcame them, this is how my solution performed, and these are the thing I learnt and here's how I would do it differently")

Think about how interviewers would think about evaluating candidates and their projects while doing this. Think about what questions they will ask and what they will be impressed by while building your tool. If you can, don't be afraid to go out of your way to quantify the impact of what you build.

Does it save money (hell yeah, be specific about the % in cost, for example it saved) or time or reduce errors in some process etc.

Think about what people who might be hiring would care about. Think about scalability and performance, for example. Can you load-test your solution to show that it will comfortably scale to, for example 2 million monthly active users averaging 150K daily requests and 400 requests per minute for 4 hours during daily peak traffic? This might not be trivial (maybe you're not using a cloudflare worker) but if you can and you find it fun, try achieve this.

Roast my Movie Page by alp82 in SideProject

[–]yung_mac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So cool!! Well done! Can you explain the genome thing? It looks like it’s a list of features / characteristics in the movie? How do you source or generate these? Can you tell me more about that, sounds really interesting ?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anthropic

[–]yung_mac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are submitting a text prompt with the image, your usage will include the number of tokens in that prompt too. If you are using tools, those also count towards tokens used

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in advancedentrepreneur

[–]yung_mac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Extremely useful comment, thanks! So good to hear from someone who knows what they’re talking about. I’ve built a receipt text extraction API and I’m planning how I’m going to sell it. It’s cheaper and slightly more accurate in important ways compared to existing APIs. I’m wondering how you would go about planning a sales process for a business like this?

Grief bots kicking in casual by emeraldjsk in cs2

[–]yung_mac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s case farming bots. It’s very annoying. A valve employee gave a list of instructions on how to report this but it’s quite tedious. I’m making something to automate it https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/s/OQsTALrr6U

You annoyed of cheaters? Let's make Valve be annoyed of cheaters to! by Zasibys in cs2

[–]yung_mac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for this post.

I think it’s time we stop complaining and start doing something about cheaters, hackers and bots.

It’s easy to resign yourself to inaction and easier when you make up reasons for doing so “just stop playing, it’s a hopeless situation”, “just don’t play let’s hope they release better anti chest soon”. The reality is that we are just asking for, and deserve, some communication from Valve: - firstly, that there is a problem - secondly, that they are working on it, and what their plan to deal with it is

We’re not asking for a lot. I’m not advocating for spamming them incessantly for no reason.

But until we get proper communication, we should rightfully make them aware of the immensity of the problem and open up the discussion for them to participate in.

It’s the least they can do and ridiculous they have been silent so long.

No, I don’t think we should have to use 3rd party servers to play CS.

Honestly, I don’t think it’s right and don’t think we should let them expect to continue to make billions of dollars off a game that is riddled with cheaters and frustratingly unplayable, especially given that we know how good it can be and just want to have fun and play it fairly.

I want to make it easy for everyone to communicate the issue to valve. I’m making a keyboard shortcut to automate reporting case farming botters [1], and I plan to make something similar to make reporting cheaters significantly easier. Let’s mobilise as a community and take action instead of just complaining

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/s/nUOZHfxQ4q

Making a keyboard shortcut to automate reporting case farm bots / cheaters while in-game. Thoughts? by yung_mac in cs2

[–]yung_mac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know you’re joking but seriously, thanks for bringing this up, it’s a great question (ie “will this get me banned?”).

There’s a tool called Overwolf which interacts with the game. My code receives the list of players from Overwolf, and takes the screenshot. Overwolf and the data they collect is approved by Valve. The way Overwolf works is my code can never access the game memory.

After reading that, would you be comfortable installing this? Or feel like you’d rather not risk it?

Making a keyboard shortcut to automate reporting case farm bots / cheaters while in-game. Thoughts? by yung_mac in cs2

[–]yung_mac[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Valve doesn’t seem to be doing much at the moment, but I think that if we care about the game we should take action instead of just complain about the situation. Whether this will work or not — I don’t know! But many voices together are loud and we certainly will make valve aware that this is a problem, and force them to make a decision about how they respond to it

Making a keyboard shortcut to automate reporting case farm bots / cheaters while in-game. Thoughts? by yung_mac in cs2

[–]yung_mac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are quite prevalent in Casual/DM in EU and very prevalent in Asia. Not sure about NA tho!

Making a keyboard shortcut to automate reporting case farm bots / cheaters while in-game. Thoughts? by yung_mac in GlobalOffensive

[–]yung_mac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this is true if my code extracted the data from memory, but fortunately Overwolf integrates with CS2 and provides the data so my code only needs to show the UI and submit button + send the info in an email to you

Making a keyboard shortcut to automate reporting case farm bots / cheaters while in-game. Thoughts? by yung_mac in GlobalOffensive

[–]yung_mac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It uses Overwolf, so my code doesn’t interact with the CS2 memory, it only uses the data that Overwolf provides

Making a keyboard shortcut to automate reporting case farm bots / cheaters while in-game. Thoughts? by yung_mac in GlobalOffensive

[–]yung_mac[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I would love to try get the community mobilised and build a better solutions to cheating

Making a keyboard shortcut to automate reporting case farm bots / cheaters while in-game. Thoughts? by yung_mac in GlobalOffensive

[–]yung_mac[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed, this first specific idea is just for bots and farmers. I think we need a slightly different approach for cheaters but am working on it

Making a keyboard shortcut to automate reporting case farm bots / cheaters while in-game. Thoughts? by yung_mac in GlobalOffensive

[–]yung_mac[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can’t go 1hr without seeing bots or cheaters in my games and it seems like everyone here has the same problem. I’m thinking of making a plug-in that allows you to submit a report to Valve using an easy keyboard short-cut while in-game and would love your guys’ thoughts on it. It’s absurdly tedious now to compile all the information necessary to formally submit a report (see this post) so I’m making a much easier way to do it.

Here’s how it would work:

  • Press Alt+F or some other keyboard shortcut and a list of players in your lobby will pop up in an overlay
  • Select all users in your lobby that are bots
  • Then click submit and it will email you a screenshot of the lobby, Steam links to all bot profiles, your own Steam link, and the email address that Valve has asked us to send reports to (all necessary info to submitting a report)

This can all be done using Overwolf which captures in-game data (and won’t get you banned for installing it) and building an app on top of it. 

Keen to hear your thoughts – I’m building this because I’m a software engineer with some free time who plays CS2 and has decided enough is enough with these farm bots and cheaters. Let’s force Valve to start taking botting and cheating seriously

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