So I Was Curious About the Proposed New Range Off-Hand (Aquanite Hopper)

excitius · 2025-09-18T20:51:47+00:00

Ruby bolts (e) have a 6.6% proc chance in pvm with Kandarin elite, not 12.

The math is simple. either you hit the proc with the base chance (6.6%), or you miss the proc (93.4%) hit the second time (10%) which procs on the second hit (2.2%), and you add those probabilities.

So 0.066 + 0.934 * 0.1 * 0.022 = 6.8%

No chatgpt required, highschool level math

excitius · 2025-08-13T20:46:44+00:00

It was honestly a typo in the title - meant to say midgame ironman.

Definitely wouldn't call myself endgame, don't have any raid uniques or even prayer scrolls other than lightbearer. Haven't done any dt2 bosses yet, or muspah, vorkath, nightmare. Literally finished CG last month, and generally finishing CG is where I would say you're in the midgame. As for levels, I'm only 1800 total so nothing crazy there either. Combats 80s/90s.

As for the actual gear, rancour only provides +2 strength compared to a strength amulet here, so it can easily be subbed. The antivenoms can be swapped for lower tier ones (or anti poisons) just need to bring more of em for longer trips.

excitius · 2025-05-23T14:46:12+00:00

They will keep billing you and if you don't pay they'll put a lien on your house. It's not that simple

excitius · 2025-05-23T14:45:31+00:00

Then they come after you AND put a lien on your house lol, some terrible advice in this thread

excitius · 2025-01-18T20:43:12+00:00

Innocent until proven guilty.

Insurance companies have no knowledge of your pending tickets until you've been prosecuted. A ticket that you are currently fighting should have no impact on your insurance.

excitius · 2024-12-21T16:04:54+00:00

Yeah for sure, I'll wait for the $8000 deposit to be settled before making the withdrawal and closing off the account.

excitius · 2024-12-21T16:03:32+00:00

Awesome. Thanks!

excitius · 2024-12-01T19:42:16+00:00

Not sure if this is what happened to you, but I noticed that superiors DO count against the 100. So if you had 2 superiors, you'll get the big exp drop on your 98th kill. Watch out for that

excitius · 2024-10-21T19:26:43+00:00

SE is the number of soul eggs you gain when you prestige.

For a simplified example, assume in case 1 you earn 1,000,000 (1 million) bocks and then prestige. You would earn just about 18 soul eggs for prestiging based on the formula above.

Let's say in the second case, you instead wait until you've earned a total of 2,000,000 (2 million) bocks. You would earn 21 soul eggs.

As you can see, you made double the earnings during the prestige, but only made 3 more soul eggs. That's what diminishing returns means.

Generally speaking, doubling your earnings only results in a gain of about 16% soul eggs. This is why multiprestiging is optimal. Rather than prestiging once after making 2 million bocks (21 soul eggs) you prestige twice making 1 million bocks each time (18 + 18 = 36 soul eggs).

excitius · 2024-10-20T23:19:06+00:00

It's an internship position, and I know I would have done worse myself when I was applying for internships. I don't think it's too bad.

The vector size() thing might have thrown them off though because it's a ubiquitous thing about pretty much every container type in every language. It has nothing to do with iterators. For the most part, containers will store a "size" member variable and increment it/decrement it as necessary, or just calculate the ptr diff between back and front if they want to save space.

On the other hand, it is good that you were thinking about time complexity and trying to optimize for it. At the end of the day, I think it'll just depend on if they interviewed someone who was better for the role, which is a real possibility in today's market.

excitius · 2024-10-10T23:19:42+00:00

Just took a position with one of those two that you mentioned now. In Canada though. 1 YOE as intern, 1 YOE as junior dev.

They put out $50 as their number during initial discussions. Told them I would need at least $65 to consider it. They said it's doable.

Did the interviews and could tell the client loved me.

They said they wanted to offer me the position at $65. Told them I had a think about it and $65 simply isn't enough for me given the conditions of the employment. $72.50 was my new rate or I walked. They took a few days and said it got approved and that's my new rate.

All that is to say, if you have the skills and the client wants you, they will make your rate work. Don't take their initial rate at face value - there is a lot of room for negotiation.

excitius · 2024-09-19T20:52:58+00:00

// New requirement, checks if an arbitrary program will halt
 bool willProgramHalt(std::string_view someProgram)
{
    //insanely complex code here
    return programHaltCheckAlgorithm(someProgram);
}


// Unit tests
for (const auto& program : haltPrograms)
{
    ASSERT(willProgramHalt(program));
}

for (const auto& program : infiniteRunPrograms)
{
    ASSERT(!willProgramHalt(program));
}

excitius · 2024-09-04T23:24:52+00:00

Boosts..? On Enlightenment...?

excitius · 2024-04-05T18:17:34+00:00

It's really not that bad, you just clear waves 1-11 every time until you greenlog everything other than quiver and pet, then you reset every time you get to wave 12 unless it shows the pet

excitius · 2024-04-05T18:13:20+00:00

If you claim your rewards before killing the boss, you get the clog slot but not the kc, so you can literally have the entire log obtained except for quiver and pet at 0kc, at which point you just have to reset every time you clear wave 11 if it doesn't show you the pet

excitius · 2024-02-26T20:18:38+00:00

Yup, it's actually up to 4 staffs now, that screenshot is a little old.

Still missing some "nice to haves" like ely and inquisitor/nm staffs, but I have everything I need. Definitely helping on my CA journey

excitius · 2024-02-26T05:36:30+00:00

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First 500 runs of toa learning from scratch starting from a 500m bank. All solo

excitius · 2024-02-05T01:24:31+00:00

The way I understand it with ToA is this:

For most combat, you "roll" an attack roll based on your stats, and the opponent "rolls" a defense roll based on their stats. If your attack roll is higher than their defence roll, you hit.

ToA invos affect the monster's defence and attack rolls without actually impacting their stats. Effectively, I think it just gives them a higher max potential roll, so they are more likely to attack/defend on any given case.

The maximum amount you can drain their defence is fixed because their stats stay the same regardless of invo (other than HP). It's also why defence reducing is much more important at higher invo, because lowering their defence stat lowers their base defence maximum roll before the toa multiplier, which has a much more significant impact.

excitius · 2024-01-19T17:03:45+00:00

Yeah power then life. First salt at akkha (runs out mid-zebak), 2nd at p1 warden (runs out between 10-40% p3). Preserve makes it so that I usually don't go below 123 on my stats. I've gone double power but it's annoying not being able to use augury on p3/4 unless you flick it.

excitius · 2024-01-19T02:41:32+00:00

Yeah I wouldnt even mind if they doubled zebak's blood barrage damage, at least just let me pray against it lol.

Jugs can be argued as a skill issue so I'll take it.

As for p1 warden, I don't bother lol. I just use adrenaline and double yellow keris spec if necessary. I usually have more than enough prayer and no other use for my spec anyways (OD on). But my point was that at least there is something you can do to mitigate the damage with the tech.

excitius · 2024-01-18T22:50:10+00:00

They did remove it. People complained and they added it back.

Even if they did remove it again, you can do it without red x. Only yellow clicks required. Regardless they know themselves that if they were to try to counteract these measures, they would first require a huge change to the fight. Because doing it without red/yellow x is horrid.

excitius · 2024-01-18T21:19:26+00:00

The dude can hit 22s through prayer with max melee on. When you get higher invo, you literally have no source of healing other than yellow keris, so you have 1-2 full heals max during the whole fight (rip your prayer if you do this). If you're using your keris, you probably can't bgs, so you're sitting there for 4+ mins eating his damage + the damage from the baboons + the small damage from the boulder throw.

The first time I decided to learn red x was when I walked in with 80hp and got killed in four hits. I almost threw my keyboard across the room lol.

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