Years after the initial releases VR still very much feels like a solution looking for a problem. As long as the industry doesn’t figure out why it should even exist there will likely just be a slow decline and there is no chance for growth.

Depends on what is calculated. Calculating all digits of pi 5.1 times per second seeems pretty fast.

I don’t see why anyone would expect anything else out of a “what is the most likely way to continue this” algorithm.

It is always nice when watches have calendar functions that correctly handle dates decades into the future.

So you are saying once it gets into your bloodstream you are doomed?

The purposes of reverse proxies vary.

One of the main reasons is that you want to host multiple services on the same IPv4 and port since you usually only get one IPv4 (works for IPv6 too but there getting more than one from your hoster is a lot easier). This is known as name-based virtual hosting.

Another thing that is often (but not always) handled by a reverse proxy is SSL/TLS termination. That way the actual application doesn’t have to worry about the certificates or crypto-related security updates. Sometimes TLS is used again on the bit between the reverse proxy and the backend server but if they are both on the same physical machine that bit is often skipped.

There are also other services such as rate limiting, caching or fully featured Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and of course CDNs that come in reverse proxy form but you shouldn’t need to worry about those too much for a small personal website that isn’t used by thousands of users.

HAProxy is a reverse proxy.