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The noise too. Your "typical" performance car customer wants a monster noise from the engine. A visceral sound. If it sounds like a jet fighter taking off, even better. There's no …

This is incompetence, pure and simple. They had incredibly fractured internal systems, multiple owners who refused to invest for the long term and then Tata - who outsourced it all…

+1 on the demographic base - it's a shrinking market and was geared towards something "quintessentially British"... which only really sells well in the UK. Close your eyes and pict…

Agree - the Land Rover brand has such significant demand that there's zero risk they won't bounce back. The "bailout" says more about Tata's approach to supplier relations than it …

I don't play slots, but I did manage an online casino for 3 years. Auto-spins allow users to play without "interaction" but, at least for my players, the animations and chirps were…

A 90% RTP will typically (typically - lots of exceptions and caveats) be quite volatile - offering big wins but long losing streaks. Exactly the kinds of game behavior designed to …

Judging by the comments on the exploit, it's down to some sloppy estate management - which is typical TCS, sadly. I know their systems and I can well imagine there's conversation a…

We use llama models as the comparative cost, at the time of decision making (9 months ago?), was cheaper++ then closed source models and comparative to other models available throu…

S3 buckets for the SPA's, AWS Lambda, API Gateway and EC2 for a MySQL instance. Some SQS to help with orchestration of the operational stuff. Have about 5k MAU and total cost barel…

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Getting upset with people for disturbing your concentration whilst having an IM open is like moving to a house by the airport and complaining about the aircraft noise. There are gr…

My Grandma was already blind by the time the internet became a "thing" and, knowing I worked "on the internet", she would ask me what it was all about when she heard it in the news…

About a year into my first IT role we installed a lot of networking infra into schools. Every school, bar none, had their network infrastructure named after characters from Blake's…

486-dx2-66 in 1995, with CD-rom, maybe 16mb of RAM, 100mb HDD. (maybe 20, maybe 200, it was a long time ago). Without an OS, self built, cost me approx ~£1600 (GBP). Saved all my M…

Duddo (n.) The most deformed potato in any given collection of potatoes. I use that word to this day.

I think there's something in the names of the families and characters that, at least to my younger mind, helped blend some of the magic into a dream-like state of never ending wand…

I've made a similar transition. For clarity, I was an engineer for 15+ years before making the switch. I've been a Product person now for about ~6. As another comment mentioned - I…

100% it's this. I've been in the room when making this exact kind of product proposal (not MB). The pushback from drivetrain and electrical on warranty, repair, battery life etc wa…

I thought I'd never be able to code again - here's my story. There are no revelations here, perhaps just know that people do, eventually, recover. I spent 6 years at a startup befo…