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If you live with 2 or 3 other SWEs this is an attractive option. You have enough PCIe lanes to pack in 4 GPUs. You have enough spare horse power to also host ba
by gravypod 7y ago
If you live with 2 or 3 other SWEs this is an attractive option. You have enough PCIe lanes to pack in 4 GPUs. You have enough spare horse power to also host basic home services like a file server, gitlab instance, home automation stuff, vpn, etc.
I think personally I'd opt for building four or five separate machines and managing them as a cluster though.
- chrisseaton 7y ago> If you live with 2 or 3 other SWEs this is an attractive option. In some sort of software engineering commune?
- gravypod 7y agoI've heard of a few people living like this, especially in areas with very high rent. I'm assuming it's not extremely uncommon and it doesn't sound like the worst way to live.
- p1necone 7y agoAre people really this unfamiliar with the idea of having roommates? I'm 26 and it's been a necessity for my entire post living in parents house life. I could buy a house in the city I currently live in, but I'd be spending >50% of my (relatively large) income on mortgage repayments and I'd be utterly screwed if I ever hit the "housing prices crash" + "no job" combo.
- gravypod 7y agoI think it's more common now among tech employees. It's also probably less common in areas with cheaper housing. Personally I feel this kind of shared housing situation would probably be much more enjoyable than loving alone.
- p1necone 7y agoIt's been great for me. But it heavily relies on the people you're living with being generally reasonable. I've also found it fun to live with people with varying interests, living with just other software engineers might be boring. Common hobbies are great though. Imagine every night being a lan party.
- chrisseaton 7y agoI know students in the US sometimes have roommates. I didn’t think many adults did it in the west. Let alone well-paid professionals.
- closeparen 7y agoMost 2 and 3 bedroom apartments in San Francisco are software engineering communes, yes.
- lsiebert 7y agoGoogle intentional living or intentional community.
- closeparen 7y agoOr just, you know, having roommates.
- nkrisc 7y agoBut you can't write a blog about re-inventing an old concept if you don't give it a trendy new-age name.
- lsiebert 7y agoThe new age name was commune, I believe.
- JetSpiegel 7y agoIf by "new age" they mean 1871...
- kortilla 7y agoWhy would this be attractive to SWEs? Seems like something that would be more relevant to gamers. Half of the SWEs I work with don’t game.
- kemotep 7y agoThe parent comment was likely referring to using the clients as workstations, not necessarily gaming computers. Though the cost of this server and the fiber optic usb peripherals is crazy. One of those fiber usb repeaters costs as much as a high end computer.
- bigiain 7y ago> One of those fiber usb repeaters costs as much as a high end computer. Not if you "borrowed them from work for testing"...
- p1necone 7y agoYou don't do this just because you like playing games. You do this because you're primarily an IT dork who likes building crazy setups. Maybe you'll play a few games with your friends on it later. This is like the Arch Linux of computer hardware. You don't install Arch Linux to get shit done. You do it because you like building and configuring, and to learn about Linux.
- ekianjo 7y agoWrong point about Arch though. You can get a lot of shit done with Arch since it has the AUR and is not forcing you to reinstall anything from scratch from an old distro and kernel combo every 2 years.
- p1necone 7y agoFair. I don't install Arch to get stuff done, I decided to stick with debian derivatives and xfce for that, but not everyone is the same.
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