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Right because people would love to get locked into another even more expensive platform.
by lvl155 11mo ago
Right because people would love to get locked into another even more expensive platform.
- svantana 11mo agoThat's mentioned in the article, but is the lock-in really that big? In some cases, it's as easy as changing the backend of your high-level ML library.
- LogicFailsMe 11mo agoThat's what it is on paper. But in practice you trade one set of hardware idiosyncrasies for another and unless you have the right people to deal with that, it's a hassle.
- lvl155 11mo agoOn top, when you get locked into Google Cloud, you’re effectively at the mercy of their engineers to optimize and troubleshoot. Do you think Google will help their potential competitors before they help themselves? Highly unlikely considering their actions in the past decade plus.
- LogicFailsMe 11mo agoGiven my Fitbit's inability to play nice with my pixel phone, I have zero faith in Google engineers. What else would one expect when their core value is hiring generalists over specialists* and their lousy retention record? *Pay no attention to the specialists they acquihire and pay top dollar... And even they don't stick around.
- Irishsteve 11mo agoI thin k you can only run on google cloud not aws bare metal azure etc
- tempest_ 11mo agoThat is like how every ORM promises you can just swap out the storage layer. In practice it doesnt quite work out that way.