Vertical integration is when you control the entire product, in consumer electronics Apple is the gold standard; they make the software, hardware, and processors then integrate them into iPhones and macBooks. Tesla is a good example in the automotive space, their goal with the mega-factories is "raw materials in, cars out" and they work to build as many of the parts themselves as possible.
Alternately Microsoft just makes a good enough OS that runs on good enough hardware from commodity vendors, so you get good enough computers. Most auto makers buy good enough components from 2nd and 3rd tier suppliers and integrate them into good enough cars.
Most people have extremely weird ideas of what’s considered piracy and what isn’t. Downloading a video game rom is piracy, but if you pay money to some Chinese retailer for an SD card containing the roms, that’s somehow not piracy. Exploiting the free trial on a streaming site by using prepaid visa cards is somehow not...
I worked for one of the YouTube founders once, killed me when he explained how they benchmarked all the Copyright detection software available at the time and then picked the worst one to use for their licensing system.
I know people who only poop at home. I can’t imagine being out in space for years. With holodeck technology… Someone is bound to have written a program that simulated their bathroom at home.
Historically, reverse proxies were invented to manage a large number of slow connections to application servers which were relatively resource intensive. If your application requires N bytes of memory per transaction then the time between the request coming in and the response going out could pin those bytes in memory, as the web server can't move ahead to the next request until the client confirms it got the whole page.
A reverse proxy can spool in requests from slow clients, when they are complete, then hand them off to the app servers on the backend, the response is generated and sent to the reverse proxy, which can slowly spool the response data out while the app server moves onto the next request.
So I have a nearly full 4 TB hard drive in my server that I want to make an offline backup of. However, the only spare hard drives I have are a few 500 GB and 1 TB ones, so the entire contents will not fit all at once, but I do have enough total space for it. I also only have one USB hard drive dock so I can only plug in one...
ZFS will let you setup a RAID like set of small volumes which mirror one larger volume, it takes some setup, but that's the most "elegant" solution in that once it's configured you only need to touch it when you add a volume to the system and it's just a mounted filesystem that you use.
Does not solve the off-site problem, one fire and it's all gone.
Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
It's funny how google pretends the music on YouTube isn't straight up piracy and everyone just goes along with it
Most people have extremely weird ideas of what’s considered piracy and what isn’t. Downloading a video game rom is piracy, but if you pay money to some Chinese retailer for an SD card containing the roms, that’s somehow not piracy. Exploiting the free trial on a streaming site by using prepaid visa cards is somehow not...
18+ Onlyfans and Piracy
I’m curious to know how Onlyfans has managed to thrive in the era of online free content and piracy....
MIT’s New Desalination System Produces Freshwater That Is “Cheaper Than Tap Water” (scitechdaily.com)
Sonic Shower Thought: Someone has probably used holodeck technology to feel like they're pooping at home.
I know people who only poop at home. I can’t imagine being out in space for years. With holodeck technology… Someone is bound to have written a program that simulated their bathroom at home.
What's the point of a reverse proxy and does cloudflare give all the benefits of one?
What's an elegant way of automatically backing up the contents of a large drive to multiple smaller drives that add up to the capacity of the large drive?
So I have a nearly full 4 TB hard drive in my server that I want to make an offline backup of. However, the only spare hard drives I have are a few 500 GB and 1 TB ones, so the entire contents will not fit all at once, but I do have enough total space for it. I also only have one USB hard drive dock so I can only plug in one...
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Halloween gag (slrpnk.net)