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Why use it, if it locks you in?
by vonnik 10y ago
Why use it, if it locks you in?
- xadhominemx 10y agoIf you're a hobbyist, why would you care about lock in?
- flamedoge 10y agoBecause you don't have control over what Google does. They may kill TPU altogether leaving your work irrelevant.
- hyperbovine 10y agoHobbies come, hobbies go.
- willvarfar 10y agoYou don't have control over what nvidia, intel or the rest of them either. If you want to get your 'feet wet', then why bother?
- flamedoge 10y agoBecause they have client facing products and backward compatibility is important to clients.
- lmm 10y agoI care about being able to carry on doing my hobby stuff 5 or 10 years from now. With NVidia I can at least be confident that as long as my graphics card keeps working (which feels like something under my control, unlike Google shutting down their products) I can keep running my code on it.