Extra fact - in the USA almost all games use long weighted reels.

I believe this is by law, but may be misinformed.

Also, if you know the rng gen you can game machines: a very very clever group in Russia bought up old machines from defunct casinos, reverse engineered the games, and then developed an app that let a user photograph x number of spins to find out what the seed was for the next spin, and from there told them to bet high or low based on the upcoming game. They made millions, and farmed it out to make more. (https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-slot-machine-cheat-casinos-no-fix/)

Never really worked with them (we never made them).

I think they’re lower prize threshold cat Bs.

In the UK, slot machines fall into 4 main categories. Of particular interest are category C machines, as these can remember a fixed number of previous games. I.e. the “myth” that a machine is “about to pay out” because “someone lost a lot to it” can hold for these games.

Cat A and B machines are completely random, previous games can have no impact on probabilities of winning (though pots can climb).

Online games have different rules, not always fair ones!

Oh, and ALL games (in a physical location) must (by law) show “RTP” (return to player) somewhere. It usually gets stuck it in a block of text in the manual since no-one reads them. (If it’s below 97.3% just go play roulette as it offers better returns).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Im4YAMWK74

Relevant follow-up (videos explore Korean gender politics and hierarchical society).

You know, this thread really needs a list of of the publishers responsible for this travesty.

“Publishers Hachette Book Group Inc, HarperCollins Publishers LLC, John Wiley & Sons Inc and Penguin Random House LLC” - According to Reuters

1. Make it too big to fail
2. Wait for the fall while enshittifying
3. Cash in on the bail out
4. Go to 2

Mathematics Lecturer (just teaching foundation mind).

It’s far more fun than people think, but with next to no real holidays (summer is actually quite busy). Also it sucked being on temporary contract, because you had no idea if you’d have work in 12 months no matter how good you were.

Good to know.

Now here’s a thought - what if the real workaround Google are using here is targeting only non manifest V3 users?

That would reduce the cost of doing this, since chrome users are already forced to swallow ads and could just be served as normal.

The end of a beautiful era - hats off for all the folks who made the pi what it is, the folks who will now be forced to make us sorrowful for what it will become.

Ehh, I have a different vision here - AI is useful, it’s just going down the hypermonetisation path at the moment. It’s not great because your data is being scraped and used to fuel paywalled content - that is largely why most folks object.

It’s, also, badly implemented, and is draining a lot of system resource when plugged into an OS for little more than a showy web search.

Eventually, after a suitable lag, we’ll see Linux AI as the AI we always wanted. A local, reasonable resource intense, option.

The real game changer will be a shift towards custom hardware for AIs (they’re just huge probability models with a lot of repetitive similar calculations). At the moment, we use GPUs as they’re the best option for these calculations. As the specialist hardware is developed, and gets cheaper, we’ll see more local models and thus more Linux AI goodness.

You forgot to tell them that our head office is…

300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118

…and all the play cards should be sent there!

“I didn’t realise the circus was in town!”

“Were your parents siblings, or was it just a lot of head trauma?”

“I’d tell you to read the room, but we both know reading isn’t your strong suite.”

“What other tricks can you do?”

Quick, someone pretend to be “the Linux company” and convince him to buy it!

And here was me thinking windows 8 was just a beta release of vista that was leaked by Microsoft!

That needed a trigger warning

Ah Windows 11, Vista 2.0.

Media praising bikes - “Bike brain goes brrring brrring!”

Media criticising bikes - “Car brain go vroom vroom vroom!”

Come now, let’s be fair and open minded ;)

Oh the media often goes both ways - in this case it appears that there are some issues that need resolving. Not everyone appreciates dodging bikes mounting the sidewalk, or doing an emergency stop when cyclists dismount the pavements without clear signaling - this is a problem for everyone but the person on the bike. Cars have their own issues, and those are widely covered.

While I very much agree every media story has “spin” (be it unwarranted cynicism or blind optimism), I am fairly certain it is the same on both sides of this issue.

Your point seems to be “all good things on bikes are backed up by studies, all bad things about bikes are big oil”, and that is quite simply the best validation of my post you could ever give. Thank you.

Media praising bikes - “Look see they work”

Media criticising bikes - “Huh, would you believe the media spin right?”