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Yes but not having to specify every single user who pulls the git repo from GitHub by IP address as an additional remote is a huge win no? If "ipfs" can be add
by chaxor 3y ago
Yes but not having to specify every single user who pulls the git repo from GitHub by IP address as an additional remote is a huge win no?
If "ipfs" can be added as a remote, and it automatically pulls from thousands of different devices without having to specify them, that's a pretty big win for redundancy right?
- blauditore 3y agoNot sure what's the big benefit here, backups? Otherwise, the more devs a repo has, the more redundancy exists anyway, if that's your main concern.
- chaxor 3y agoIt becomes far more useful for making very large files generated from code (e.g. NN weights) easily downloadable without having to pay huge sums to storage providers ($600 to AWS for arxiv.org for example) - with IPFS it's completely FREE, because everyone with the file is using it and hosting it. Additionally capabilities can be added in a Makefile form to use IPFS as the cache to ensure that a script that takes 3 months on a HPC/supercomputer to make a 3MB file only has to grab the file in a few seconds, even if not yet computed locally (e.g. you just computed it at work and do `git pull && ipfsmake`).