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- Comment on 🔔 SHAME 🔔 7 months ago:
I’m not sure anyone has really provided a complete explanation of what is the difference between working with an absolute infinity and the way we do math normally in science and such.
Basically, no one has found the idea of using an absolute infinity to explain the world to be better than the way we deal with infinity in college courses. In college, you run across the idea that some infinite sets are larger than others (countable numbers vs uncountable).
Of course, an infinite set makes sense in math, and has practical uses in the sciences, but nothing can truly be demonstrated to be unending. Another poster put it nicely - infinity is a direction, not a destination.
I recommend this video How to count past infinity by Vsauce about (20 minutes long). It is closer to entertainment than a lecture but its pretty good. I’m only an undergrad math major but I haven’t found any real problems with this video (though, he does start talking about ordinal numbers which aren’t terribly useful to anyone that I know of, yet, except for some really complicated number theory stuff cryptographers might use, don’t ask me. cryptographers are basically wizards imho).
- Comment on Calculus made easy 7 months ago:
The author of these paragraphs summarizes it very nicely. It takes a lot of talent to break things down like this, I wish more math textbooks were written this way.
I recommend this video as well:
- Comment on I want to speak to the meat manager 7 months ago:
You don’t know what you ask, traveler. My loins are too tender for you. They will surely kill you.
- Comment on Thanks AT&T! 8 months ago:
The irony of a billion dollar company losing my personal info and helpfully offering me credit monitoring service from the other billion dollar company that lost my info. It’s so good.
Throw into the mix: I had to do business with AT&T because they were the only ISP available to my Appartment complex. I never had the choice to not do business with these companies.
Equifax handles my company’s payroll.
Please, I want to get off Mr bones wild ride.
- Comment on I have so many lists... 8 months ago:
mood
I filed my taxes 5 hrs ago
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Hmm, I’m not sure how your opinion differs from /u/eleitl@lemmy.ml then, that’s more or less what they were saying, no? They never stated they thought lemmy was free from control, the contrary in fact: community effort
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
You are always free to host your own lemmy instance. Then you can choose to federate with whoever you want.
If I hosted an instance, I wouldn’t want to host hate speech or weird porn, and it would also be my right to not do so.
I also wouldn’t want to bother moderating a lemmy instance for people I didn’t know, and having to hear their demands for what they want to see/not see. That’s just me, personally and I’m glad there are people out there doing the work for me.
What I’m saying is, if you’re going to interact with a platform with possibly millions of users there’s going to be ground rules, and those take time to agree on. Lemmy is unique in that you can move to an instance that fits you better. I don’t think social media should be monetized, but we can’t ignore they take time and money to run. You have to compromise on somethings sometimes.
Or you can just run your own.
- Comment on Cow 8 months ago:
a boss that is also a cartoon villain is more understanding than my workplace
- Comment on Social acceptability 9 months ago:
TBH dudes with foot fetishes assume no one else knows what a foot fetish is, and that’s where they run into trouble. See: Dan Snyder and Nickolodean.
Example:
Dude 1 openly harasses me about my butt, I hate it and move on with my life
Dude 2 thinks he’s being slick. Talks to me for a few minutes bullshitting/smalltalk before the conversation is suddenly about how I’m on my feet all day and what shoes do you wear and what about your socks and… etc
One is a cat call, the other is some weird social engineering shit that also insults my intelligence. I’m not making this up, these dudes try this on multiple targets until they can find a mark. My coworkers have to deal with it too. Don’t see them a lot but we warn each other about the foot guy.
Sorry to all you normal, respectful people with foot fetishes, I’m sure you give awesome consensual foot rubs.
- Comment on The business of check cashing 10 months ago:
Article is long winded and the author is full of themselves. They do not view check cashing as a tax on the poor and suggest because some people prefer the customer service at these establishments that there is nothing wrong with them. (They claim bank tellers can be judgy and can make people feel uncomfortable. Fucking make nicer banks then, damn. Credit unions, even. Those exist)
They like to quote statistics like “[t]he average unbanked worker in Illinois spends $574 a year to cash their payroll checks.” (I am not relaying this quote for its truth value.)
Excuse me, what? How could this not enrage you? It is a systemic failure that workers have their wages skimmed by the finance industry.
I’m starting to think stochastic is a red-flag word that marks people who are up their own ass and I’m a stats major.
- Comment on How can casinos stay open when they lose so much money? 1 year ago:
You could be right, but I think it’s a 32-unsigned for three reasons:
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Slot machines have no need to handle fractions of pennies.
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Slot machines operate with “credits” as it’s base unit. 1 credit is the smallest unit. This is most likely a penny slot, so 1 credit = 0.01, and the most it can probably store in memory is probably 4,294,967,295 credits, which is very nearly $43 million (suspiciously the same as the erroneous amount on the screen). Older dollar machines have $1 = 1 credit, and can’t handle pennies at all, and will reject tickets less than a dollar. If you give these older machines, say, $1.69, it will hold $1 as credit and print a ticket for $0.69 because it has no way of handling it.
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Diagnostic software handles “credits” as an integer. Coin in, coin out, current credits are all whole numbers. When using the software to inspect a machine, you have to know the denomination of the machine to know how much money is on it (denom times credits = amount).
This machine looks old as hell from the image in the article. I’m not familiar with this style, though, we don’t have these where I work.
And you’re right, this is certainly more than the “maximum payout” reported by the makers of the slot machine. The innards of a slot machine aren’t very mysterious from a technical standpoint, they can only produce a finite set of payouts, this isn’t one of them. There isn’t a sort of hard-and-fast stop for how much a machine can pay, more like it can only algorithmically produce a finite set of payouts.
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- Comment on How can casinos stay open when they lose so much money? 1 year ago:
My job is to literally pay jackpots, I do it several times a night.
We’ve never had a glitch like this where I work, and if we did we’d fucking meme on it forever lmao
- Comment on How can casinos stay open when they lose so much money? 1 year ago:
it better be well-established that cherry-coin-grape is the deciding output and not the display.
Yes, this is how it works. This is the regulated language. All symbols have pays associated with them.
I will give you another example: You hit red seven, red seven, red seven on a progressive machine. The progressive displays a value of $1,079 (and does not reset after the win) but the machine only pays $1,000. This is a problem with the settings of the machine, and the casino is required to pay the progressive amount of $1079 and possibly be fined for having a misconfigured machine. This is because the pay table lists this as awarding the progressive prize. Pay table is law.
I also suspect that the machine did not display a win of $43 million at all. I suspect the glitch occurred either when the win was added to her credits or when the ticket was printed (an error in memory, not in game logic).
- Comment on How can casinos stay open when they lose so much money? 1 year ago:
4294967295 is the limit for an unsigned 32bit integer.
Her cash ticket said $42,949,672.76.
This is clearly a machine error. I’ll explain:
- It is clearly an error - integer overflow.
- Wins over $1,200 are taxable in the US, meaning a $43 million win would be handled by an employee
- Image is a screen shot displaying “Printing cash ticket”, meaning she’s cashing out her remaining balance. Machines can only hold so much cash as credit on them, $2000-$3000. Diagnostic software would give the casino employees the actual balance of the machine (Article lists $2.25, and dinner for her trouble).
She didn’t “win”, the machine glitched out. All machines have a “maximum payout”, and I’d bet (and win) $43 million far exceeds what the maximum payout is on any machine at this casino.
Casinos are required by law to pay you your winnings, not for integer overflows. Gambling is stupid, don’t bother.
- Comment on What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials & Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working. 1 year ago:
Excellent point. Radios are clearly pushing it, I’m sure some of them cost like $20. People can just learn how to do without!
- Comment on What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials & Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working. 1 year ago:
Yea I know, lmao. I work with people who think that some people don’t deserve smart phones. It’s cathartic to argue about it on the internet.
- Comment on What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials & Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working. 1 year ago:
Most are old
Bingo!
Try balancing a job and kids, reaching companies and schools without a smart phone. It will cost you time if you can’t just reach into your pocket. Example, schools in my area put school closures on Facebook and through email. Guess you could listen to the radio if you didn’t have access. Or watch the news on TV (Oh, actually, TV is a luxury, nevermind, much less useful).
Smart phones are not an expensive luxury anymore, they’re a tool. They’re a tool that the younger, employed and child-raising part of society is assumed to have. I’m not saying you can’t do it, it’s just, well… Hope your kids can adjust to college life if they haven’t been exposed to tools like easy access to the internet. Their peers will probably have smart phones, at least as teenagers/young adults. Doesn’t bode well for them. You can get a cheap smart phone, even used iPhones aren’t always that expensive, though I think androids are far more economical.
- Comment on What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials & Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working. 1 year ago:
get rid of the phone and you save a lot of money per month
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Have you tried living without a phone? This is very hard to pull off in America. You need an email address. Ok, fine, you say, but that doesn’t mean you need a phone. Okay, so you need to pay for home internet and have a PC? Still a cost here.
No, you say, walk/drive to the library every time you need to check your email. Every time you need to use a website to make an appointment or fill a form out. Every time you need to check google for information (by the way, I have saved thousands of dollars by googling things, I am sure you have, too).
There’s still a cost here - time. Many people who have smartphones in America don’t have home internet.
You still need a phone number if you’re employed. I’m sure there are jobs that will put up with not being able to contact you, but good luck with that, I’m sure they pay well. You’re paying for a dumb phone or a land line either way.
And you’re right, it is a choice. I choose to participate in society, and that pretty much requires the internet. I choose not to live naked in the woods, surviving on what I forage like a bear.
- Comment on What game did you find in a bargain bin that turned out to be awesome? For me it was Z by Bitmap Brothers which I got at Zellers for $0.47 1 year ago:
Awww! That’s so cute, I had no idea they could do that! Most of my saves just ended in destruction.
- Comment on What game did you find in a bargain bin that turned out to be awesome? For me it was Z by Bitmap Brothers which I got at Zellers for $0.47 1 year ago:
I loved that game even though I never figured it out. I couldn’t find anything else like it. It’s one of the reasons Spore disappointed me so much. Spore had customizable appearances but all the creatures acted the same. In Creatures, it almost felt like they were alive.
- Comment on Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website 1 year ago:
Yea.
It’s reskinned chromium. You can google it if you want. One of the top links is a .deb for me (I am running debian).
- Comment on Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life 1 year ago:
OP and others are reaching out to a friend to show they care. They want to tell their friend that they have a problem, and that the problem is solvable. OP is putting up with any unconformable feelings and bad blood this will cause to do this.
This might be enough for that friend to want to make a change.
OP surely knows only their friend can truly choose to stop drinking.
- Comment on I do not wish to live in the Gummy Universe. 1 year ago:
It’s weird that the documentary never mentioned the giant worms. Conspiracy?