ivorbuk

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by ivorbuk 7d ago
Of course it does! Why pay all those machine learning/data employee salaries? In 2016 I joined an online casino (as a PM) and was confronted by the biggest machine learning and real-time data operation I had ever seen at the time. All
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by ivorbuk 11mo ago
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 "authentic" sound to replace it. Mu
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by ivorbuk 1y ago
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 to teams who aren't doing anything with any urgency. T
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by ivorbuk 1y ago
+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 picture a Jag driver and you see Nigel Farage. No
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by ivorbuk 1y ago
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 does about brand risk. Not that Tat
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by ivorbuk 1y ago
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 all part of the "fun". All go towa
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by ivorbuk 1y ago
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 extract long playing times and really peak the dopamine resp
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by ivorbuk 1y ago
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 about a greenfield rebuild for the essential manufa
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by ivorbuk 2y ago
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 through bedrock (we use via aws bedrock). Strong reasoning at the
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by ivorbuk 2y ago
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 barely breaks 40$ a month. Chose this because it's the
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by ivorbuk 2y ago
Guestbooks, where people left nice comments.
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by ivorbuk 2y ago
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 great tools on these things that help you prioritize and snooz
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by ivorbuk 2y ago
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. After a few struggles we settled on &q
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by ivorbuk 2y ago
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 7 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by ivorbuk 2y ago
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 McJob money for an entire year. I remember the cost as it was
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by ivorbuk 3y ago
Duddo (n.) The most deformed potato in any given collection of potatoes. I use that word to this day.
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by ivorbuk 3y ago
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 wandering.
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by ivorbuk 4y ago
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 find that PM/TPM roles vary depending on the
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by ivorbuk 4y ago
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 was intense and directly related to future satisfact
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by ivorbuk 4y ago
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 before realizing it was never going to be successful a