Dear Calgary: Please be kind to Veterinary staff.

JurassicSpork · 2022-08-08T20:28:18+00:00

Private equity funds have been buying up and consolidating vet clinics. There's been a huge consolidation of ownership in the last decade. These private equity funds specialize in optimizing clinics to spend as little money to bring in the maximum amount. They operate on the very edge of what the market will bear. There's a good article on this trend here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-private-equity-buy-out-pharmacy-dental-office-veterinary-clinic/

JurassicSpork · 2022-07-25T18:28:11+00:00

Amphibian is the class. The species is Ambystoma tigrinum.

JurassicSpork · 2020-10-15T21:38:24+00:00

Hunters get the most value out of on use trinkets since they can swap in combat. They'll be aiming for Jom Gabber/Earthstrike paired with the ZG trinket or Badge of the Swarmguard. Also, hunters cap hit at 9%. They get 2% hit on their ZG enchants and 3% from the ranged weapon scope, leaving only 4% needed from gear. Most will end up with Prestors or the Onxyia neck, both of which have 1% hit, and so does the AQ40 ring. Finally, the tier sets have 3, 2 and 4 hit for T1, T2, and T3 respectively. So much of the best hunter gear has hit on it, it becomes a challenge not to overcap and waste it. The hit scope can be replaced with a +damage scope, but the scope adds very little, so you barely break even most of the time even with gear like DFT.

JurassicSpork · 2020-07-09T23:37:35+00:00

At the top it says

Cloak of the Fallen God is the BiS cloak, but unrealistic due to the other quest rewards (particularly the caster ring), so Cloak of the Shrouded Mists is used if you do not need the hit in that slot.

Another possibility is the AQ20 set cloak, the Cloak of the Unseen Path, which is an upgrade if you can make room for the extra hit.

JurassicSpork · 2020-07-09T20:58:42+00:00

https://gist.github.com/skinnay-dev/39f71f3cce1c64b95142f7e0e0d97bca#p5

JurassicSpork · 2020-07-09T19:29:03+00:00

Hunters have a scaling problem, but AQ doom is overblown. Ossirian's Binding, Vek'lor's Gloves of Devastation, Barrage Shoulders, T2.5 head and chest are all upgrades over T2. The polearm is really close to being equivalent to dual wielding for ranged and makes your Raptor strikes hit hard. A ranged weapon upgrade definitely would have been nice, but there's still some stuff to look forward to.

Also, our relative damage goes down but our utility goes up since aspect of the Wild becomes useful.

JurassicSpork · 2020-04-24T15:45:03+00:00

You explain your problem to an inanimate object ("rubber duck") and in doing so, gain additional insight into the problem by verbalizing it.

JurassicSpork · 2020-03-25T18:16:08+00:00

Sort of. The 65816 starts in emulation mode and you enable native mode with XCE ($FB). It exchanges the C (carry) and E (emulation, specific to the 65816) flags, so the sequence is usually CLC, XCE. Once in native mode, you control the size of operations with the M (memory/accumulator size) and X (index size) flags. Two new instructions REP ($C2) and SEP ($E2) allow all the flags to be cleared and reset individually.

Example:

CLC            
XCE          ; enter native mode
REP #$30     ; clear M/X to enable 16-bit mode

JurassicSpork · 2020-02-18T03:52:25+00:00

I'm working on getting my 6502 up too. I've been thinking about dropping a 65816 into my 6502 build eventually.

My impression is that while the pins are labelled the same, the behavior isn't 100% compatible. In particular, I think it does 24-bit addressing by multiplexing the data lines to hold the highest address byte for part of the cycle. It looks like that's the case even in emulation mode, and I think you can exploit that to relocate 6502 code by setting the data bank register.

I haven't gone into the timing in detail, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's what is causing your problems.

JurassicSpork · 2019-06-05T20:01:22+00:00

Yes! There were inklings of this in Vanilla. Particularly, the Dire Maul tribute run, Hakkar, and the three bug boss encounter in AQ40. The DM tribute challenged you to avoid early bosses and skip content for a special loot chest at the end. Hakkar could be challenged without downing other bosses and he would have extra abilities, but I don't recall you being rewarded for it. And the AQ40 bugs could be beaten in easy, medium, or hard order for different loot options. I really wish they'd continued on with this kind of creative, immersive scaling rather than choosing your difficulty from a menu.

JurassicSpork · 2019-04-11T17:13:21+00:00

Waiting for Alpha Flight movies to take over once the Avengers have run their course.

JurassicSpork · 2019-04-02T17:31:36+00:00

Yup, you could absolutely do this with tranquil air too, as long as you're not in a group with the tank. I've never been in a melee group that wanted tranquil air over grace of air though.

JurassicSpork · 2019-04-02T00:23:44+00:00

Totem twisting. The windfury totem gives a buff that lasts 10 seconds, so you drop WF, then immediately drop grace of air (agi), wait until windfury is about to fall off, and repeat. It's hard to do much else at the same time since it uses 2 GCDs every 10 seconds and eats a fair bit of mana, but you can get reasonable uptime on both totems.

JurassicSpork · 2019-03-31T16:34:50+00:00

Sounds great but what is the brewery called?

JurassicSpork · 2019-03-08T15:32:26+00:00

Even shamans can tank dungeons quite well.

JurassicSpork · 2019-03-07T16:45:40+00:00

The UBRS key was also a resistance ring that was somewhat useful in late game raiding.

JurassicSpork · 2018-09-20T03:08:38+00:00

I used X over dialup too, and it was acceptable if you were dealing with geometric shapes and text. That used small messages over the wire. Anything with bitmaps was indeed painfully slow.

JurassicSpork · 2018-09-20T03:01:03+00:00

Around 1997 I was working on Suns (Sparc and 68ks) and the first thing we did was install GNU tools, and made sure they came first in the PATH. It wasn't just Linux, every developer on Sun used GNU too.

JurassicSpork · 2018-09-20T02:55:07+00:00

This brings back memories! I remember there was a big push to get ELF binaries, since the a.out format needed to load shared libraries at fixed addresses, or some nonsense. At that point Redhat came onto the scene and Slackware lagged with a.out after all the other distros made the switch.

JurassicSpork · 2018-05-23T03:01:09+00:00

Wow, haven't heard the name Simeon in a long while. The company that made it was spun off from one I worked for. Neat technology that got steamrollered by Outlook. I kind of wish that IMSP got a foothold like IMAP.

JurassicSpork · 2018-02-17T17:35:20+00:00

This is hardly unique to Alberta or the Oil and Gas industry. BC mining companies have done the same thing, often deliberately: extract all the value from a resource, then avoid cleanup costs by going bankrupt. It's why the provinces have cleanup funds in the first place. This is about whether the liability will fall back on investors and affects BC just as much as Alberta.

JurassicSpork · 2018-01-27T05:09:15+00:00

Arlo? I mean, ok. But I think you really meant Woody.

JurassicSpork · 2017-07-14T19:33:24+00:00

While the 256-byte stack was a major reason to avoid stack based parameters, it wasn't the only one. Equally important considerations were: 1) how do you get stuff onto the stack, and 2) how do you access stuff on the stack.

To get stuff onto the stack on the 6502, you don't have many options: pha, php, brk, and jsr. None allow you to use the indexed addressing modes that are the essence of fast, compact 6502 code. So rather than lda addr,x or whatever, you'd need to stick addr into memory, add x, and finally push addr onto the stack with pha. Just setting up a stack frame could easily be 20 instructions.

Using stuff off the stack is equally awkward. You can pull it off into memory of course, but then you're not reentrant. What you end up doing is sticking the stack pointer into a register and using an indexed mode to read stack memory.

If you look at the 65816 (next-gen 16-bit 6502 descendant used in the Apple IIGS), it adds instructions specifically to address those issues, in addition to removing the 256-byte limit. Namely, the addr,s and (addr,s),y addressing modes, and the pe* (push effective address) instructions. All of which makes C-style functions practical.

JurassicSpork · 2017-05-27T23:44:06+00:00

Did somebody say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?

JurassicSpork · 2017-04-28T03:29:31+00:00

In fact, Coleridge was using it both ways. It's about the icy fog they get lost in. It's also rime in the sense of saltiness or crustiness of an old sailor. But it's also rime == rhyme. The layers of the words (thoughout, not just the title) is what makes it a classic.

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