It’s just a regulated amount set by the government of each region, the manufacturers want to make them as profitable as possible, but the regulations say they can only be so profitable. The thing is, if you’re losing 2% per game, it doesn’t seem like much, but the point of slots is you play a lot of games, people sit there for hours and hours and the machines can run multiple games at once in some cases. You can lose all your money quite quickly.

I never worked on physical machines so I can’t really answer any questions about coins, I just got data sheets with the reels on them and info about stuff like custom rules and bonus rounds.

It depends on the region, we were certifying globally. I don’t remember the numbers that well, it was years ago and I only did a few months there, but I think it’s something like a 98% return for the player, so if you put $1 in, you get 0.98¢ back on average.

Very sarcastic comment, but if the traffic is bad enough then it becomes safe to cycle again because of how little anyone in a car can move.

I mean yeah, that makes sense. The Labor government has been up for sale for years

I very briefly had a job as a mathematician for a company that certifies pokies (slot machines). I was technically also a software dev, but my job mainly consisted of calculating the theoretical average returns for each machine, writing basic code to simulate the machine for millions of games and then making sure those two numbers matched. I’d pass that on to a physical testing team who hack them to run real games.

It was a horrible fucking job and I got out basically a month after I finished my training. All we did was prove the machines were exactly as profitable as allowed in whatever location they were going to be deployed at…

Now I work as a regular software developer and it’s also a horrible job.

Yeah that’s why I said they hadn’t done work before they collect the particle, I assume capturing it will involve some transfer of energy but again it depends on the experimental setup.

Very unsure of this, but I believe there’s relative motion between the thermal particles and the accelerating observer, so I guess it would make sense. I vaguely recall it being refered to as a thermal shower.

Regardless, yes you have to provide the energy to create those particles somehow. You’re ending up with something other than the vacuum state and energy must be conserved.

Hawking gave that very explanation in his paper, so it’s his own fault for inflicting bad science communication on the world haha

An asteroid falling into a black hole is in free fall, it’s not accelerating.

There are lots of related questions about black holes and hawking radiation one can ask and the answer is we don’t know, we don’t have the physics to describe it yet.

It doesn’t, it’s a direct result of mixing relativity and quantum physics. It’s painfully complicated and I wouldn’t even know where to begin because I only really know how to understand it through the abstract mathematics.

I guess the simplest explanation I can give is that in quantum field theory, the definition of what is and isn’t a particle depends on your frame of reference. Hence accelerating observers (in free space or hovering near black holes for example) see particles where others may see none.

FWIW that description of Hawking radiation is wrong and I think Hawking even says as much in his original paper on it. The real process is far far more complicated and involves tracing quantum field waves of various frequencies from the infinite past, through a collapsing star/black hole and into the future. Everything else is spot on.

In QFT the definition of a particle itself becomes kinda abstract and hard to define in a consistent way.

I studied stuff like this in excessive detail a few years back but I don’t remember it super well now. Here’s my best guess from what remains of my intuition:

An accelerating observer sees a shower of thermal particles due to a change in their reference frame. In QFT this is represented by a Bogoliubov transformation of the vacuum state to a non-vacuum state. I don’t think the observer has done work on the vacuum at this point as it’s technically still equivalent to the vacuum. When they collect particles, they put them onboard their ship in some container. When returning to an inertial frame they do work on them, expending energy and disrupting the vacuum state.

In essence, when returning to the inertial frame, the state of the field is not represented by the inverse Bogoliubov transformation from the thermal Unruh state. There’s a complicating factor where energy is injected into the vacuum, and what that looks like mathematically depends on your experimental setup.

The comparison with the Sydney Metro is silly, they’re extremely different projects. Melbourne’s metro tunnel isn’t a metro, it’s a badly named but very welcome change to make some suburban lines through running.

Uhhh the history of how Labour introduced neoliberal anarchy to Australia and then made it queer???

None in particular, I want my US friends to be able to escape persecution and be here where they’re safe

My job only exists because it was cheaper to hire several thousand tech workers to replace all the oracle products in house over several years than to keep using Oracle lmao

The anarchist-faq will get you most of the way there, and the K-On manga will fill in the gaps.

It’s always going to be a personal preference kind of thing. Personally I don’t really care much about “passing” and I’m usually completely okay being outwardly trans, unless it’s being used to harass/bully.

I had a weird experience the other day when getting an ultrasound where I told the tech I was obviously on HRT which she immediately denied. I get she was trying to be supportive, but it kinda just made me feel worse because of how awkward it was lol.

I love this stuff, I always put it on my face. It’s just enough to stop feeling like my skin is as dry as paper and it’s not oily, it feels more watery than anything. I switched to it years ago, use it after every shower and now my skin is so nice, presumably just because I’m not leaving my face all dried out, I doubt there’s anything special about this stuff.

That said, I do also use a very gentle sorbolene body wash and hand soap because my skin was too fragile for normal soap. If I don’t, I tend to get lots of sores on my fingers.

A favourite phrase of mine that comes up in so many different areas of life is: “soft on people, hard on structures.” Individuals tend to be pretty good, genuine and caring people.

It’s much like how an atheist might be a great person, but the new atheist movement became a festering cesspool of anti-feminist right wing bigotry. Having a religion doesn’t change much really, shit people are universal.

It’s my HRT birthday today, two years now and it’s really sunny and warm. It’s a nice day :3