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Slap them in a gorgeously designed silver metal and black plastic case and...wow...core memories were made.

My family owned a small printing company and growing up I spent lots of time hanging out there. Down the block was a family owned tailor shop who also would have their young kids hanging out during the day. I have wonderful memories of spending all summer with my friends in dark supply closets and changing rooms playing Pack Monster [2] with my friends, the only light was the blue and red glow of the VFD display. When we'd inevitably get kicked out of one family business we'd run over to the other and find another dark closet to play it in. The fun would last until we ran out of batteries.

I mean seriously, look at how beautiful the industrial design was on some of these games [3]. What a cool site.

1 - https://www.core77.com/posts/120090 2 - https://www.electronicplastic.com/game/?company=bandai&id=11... 3 - https://www.electronicplastic.com/game/?company=bandai&id=13...

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And no, you probably won't be the first project with that name in whatever market/vertical/milieu that you are working in.

I found half a dozen different "Haystack" products and companies working in AI in 10 seconds of googling.

Please make it stop.

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The ability to mix and match drives in the main Unraid Array is of course the original feature and draw. Adding a few TB at a time for whatever leftover money I had after taxes each year is really appealing.

But they've added SSD write caching, VMs, Docker containers, a Docker "app store", and recently ZFS drive clusters (mostly for SSD storage).

It's pretty great and incredibly easy to admin. I presently have well over 125TB of mixed Unraid and ZFS cluster storage in a Fractal 7 XL. It's running around 30 containers, a handful of VMs, Tailscale and literally requires less than 20 minutes a week of system level administration (probably more like 5-10 minutes). Of course I'm spending far more than that messing with the actual apps, but that's a personal problem ;)

It gets regular updates, and I'm sure my uptime would exceed a couple of years except for reboots needed to handle the updates and the occasional power outage. You can ignore the updates of course to min-max your uptime. ZFS has been rock solid on my SSD array.

You can recreate the core array bits with a bit of effort and MergeFS and SnapRAID, add Docker, some VM host system, ZFS and a few other things and you can get Unraid "for free" with a fairly normal Linux distro, but the administrative overhead will be a bit more.

One tradeoff is that Unraid exposes a core set of features for each of these, but you could get to quite a bit more specific of a configuration if you go the regular Linux route. The Unraid devs are slowly adding more ZFS features (for example) to the regular interface, but it takes time. Some more expeditionary Unraid user attempt to use those features more or less at their risk with results reported in various forums.

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The proximity fuze - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze

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It's basically importing expensive R&D for "free" while helping establish a heavy industrial base (which has also proven very fruitful for South Koreans). I'm sure there are other examples like this. You also get a better trained workforce, and then the import of the technical knowledge later where it is slower to digest but with the ability now to turn that knowledge into working production.

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It's also a recognized UNESCO recognized intangible cultural heritage in at least half a dozen countries.

https://www.demoparty.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

I've worked for two such companies in my career (and partnered with a few others) and both of them were really just normal businesses that used their non-profit status as part of their business model. They used that status to position themselves as an objective second party to various governments and businesses and signal trust. They also internally represent themselves as something different from commercial businesses, just with a weird way of mopping up profit at the end of the fiscal year. At one I was a researcher and the other a low-level executive.

At the working level, both paid slightly under comparable jobs in the private sector, were often very top heavy, and spent lavishly on facilities and had large internal R&D programs that often went nowhere but acted like overamped hands-on training programs that expressed themselves in additional expertise they could offer their clients without having to turnover staff.

I often had multiple personal offices, subsidized mid-level restaurant quality lunches, laboratories, assistants, and research budgets stretching into the low millions of dollars. This was in addition to the regular work we were contracted out to do, which was often either direct work on fairly cutting-edge S&T like programs or providing special advisory and expertise services to those same customers.

All of the companies I know in this space are also fairly top-heavy with, executive and administrative pay helps sop up any profit.

The law requires these companies to report quite a bit of information about their financials into the public space every year [1]. Some of the executives make quite extraordinary pay.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/

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