sure thing 😊

oh hey that’s my group ❤️

even better, I think that slide was made by a good friend of mine as part of a collab that our trans activist group did with FnB, we’re both members of catalyst.

Sure do, it’s a bit of a full house right now

I actually started the whole thing at urgent care, who took one look at me and immediately sent me to the ER haha. I don’t expect to be back anytime soon, things are going well healing wise, it’s just freaky as hell that the standard is to not stitch up the big hole in me.

Merry Christmas to you too 😊

I had emergency surgery a couple of days ago, and I’ve been home trying my best to recover but this is a new level of body horror I was not prepared for. I’m so glad the whole thing was free though, and the hospital stay was genuinely quite pleasant (I got lucky and ended up with a private room).

Here’s hoping I get through the next couple of weeks without any complications, I just want this thing to be over and done with.

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.

I can’t really see that in the meme, but your explanation makes sense

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

Is it meant to be “that would exist” or is this a pro-colonisation meme? (I know little about the Romans, if I’m just misunderstanding something)

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.

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.

I have to keep doing that for mine, it has a stupid built in plug that’s too complicated so it constantly clogs with random stuff like hair and mysterious black slime…

The fossil fuel industry doesn’t pay enough in taxes for it to be worth it tbh, it’s just making a handful of very rich people even more so…

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

Is this an allistic thing? I find it uncomfortable when people don’t try to relate like that

I saw a job ad recently for a cyber security position and the description was all “how do we use AI without leaking patient data, and also do it ethically and train it to replace our workforce… ethically” it was the most insane thing I’ve seen yet and I’m sure an AI wrote it as part of a plan to take over.

Getting close to a trans rally and sex worker fundraiser that my group are organising. Today I’m making some stickers and other silly little things to sell, it’s so relaxing.

Just got told we’re expected to start doing 100% vibe coding at my corporate software engineer job, the company is also getting rid of all quality testing engineers. Goodbye financial system