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It is their right to ban any use they want. Colab is an awesome service, so much so that I seldom use my at-home GPU rig. As consumers we can use or not use pl

It is their right to ban any use they want. Colab is an awesome service, so much so that I seldom use my at-home GPU rig. As consumers we can use or not use platforms like Google, Twitter, etc. as we like, or not. Colab’s ban will be good for small 3rd party GPU cloud providers and that is a good thing. Same thing with Twitter: in the last month there is now better material on Mastodon.

DarylZero 4y ago
- edmundsauto 4y ago
  This is not an appropriate response - it does not advance the conversation, and is clearly derogatory towards OP. Try to do better next time.
- nmilo 4y ago
  Yes, that's how society works. If you use a service respectfully you get rewarded with the ability to keep using that service.
  - DarylZero 4y ago
    Subservient lapdog attitude toward corporations is a modern thing not a generic property of "society."
passivate 4y ago
And the authors are using their rights to free expression to criticize Google. No rights have been taken away. So its all good.
visarga 4y ago
> Colab is an awesome service, so much so that I seldom use my at-home GPU rig. Can you use Colab from VSCode? Notebooks are great for exploration but not for complex projects.
- davidatbu 4y ago
  So I really dislike Jupyter, and I've tried using this[0] before to ssh into Colab and do work in a terminal setup. You have to be careful to back up your code frequently (what I did was push to Github) since your ssh session goes away when your "kernel" (or whatever your colab session is called) goes away. You wouldn't have this worry if you were just using the web interface, since the code is always saved. I'd imagine that, if you want to use VSCode, it's remote editing features, which I keep on hearing a lot about, would come in handy to edit over ssh! [0] https://github.com/WassimBenzarti/colab-ssh https://github.com/WassimBenzarti/colab-ssh
- dekhn 4y ago
  VS Code can render Jupyter notebooks (it connects to the kernel). I don't know if "use colab from VSCode" means connecting your VS Code to a remote colab kernel.
heavyset_go 4y ago
It's my right to yell at anyone who accidentally steps off the sidewalk into my yard, but that right doesn't invalidate criticism and judgments I receive in response to my actions.

DarylZero 4y ago

edmundsauto 4y ago
This is not an appropriate response - it does not advance the conversation, and is clearly derogatory towards OP. Try to do better next time.
nmilo 4y ago
Yes, that's how society works. If you use a service respectfully you get rewarded with the ability to keep using that service.
- DarylZero 4y ago
  Subservient lapdog attitude toward corporations is a modern thing not a generic property of "society."

passivate 4y ago

And the authors are using their rights to free expression to criticize Google. No rights have been taken away. So its all good.

visarga 4y ago

> Colab is an awesome service, so much so that I seldom use my at-home GPU rig. Can you use Colab from VSCode? Notebooks are great for exploration but not for complex projects.

davidatbu 4y ago
So I really dislike Jupyter, and I've tried using this[0] before to ssh into Colab and do work in a terminal setup. You have to be careful to back up your code frequently (what I did was push to Github) since your ssh session goes away when your "kernel" (or whatever your colab session is called) goes away. You wouldn't have this worry if you were just using the web interface, since the code is always saved. I'd imagine that, if you want to use VSCode, it's remote editing features, which I keep on hearing a lot about, would come in handy to edit over ssh! [0] https://github.com/WassimBenzarti/colab-ssh https://github.com/WassimBenzarti/colab-ssh
dekhn 4y ago
VS Code can render Jupyter notebooks (it connects to the kernel). I don't know if "use colab from VSCode" means connecting your VS Code to a remote colab kernel.

heavyset_go 4y ago

It's my right to yell at anyone who accidentally steps off the sidewalk into my yard, but that right doesn't invalidate criticism and judgments I receive in response to my actions.