Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
by aembleton on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:06AM
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Why did you build a machine with 128GB of RAM and then not use it? Was there a specific task you built it for? Why didn't you just rent some instances from AWS?
Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
by innocentoldguy on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:56AM
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Yes, I built it for a project I was working on. I planned to use the machine for development and maybe gaming afterward but kept going back to my laptop since it was easier to use. I hadn't really expected that to be the case, but that's how it turned out.
Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
by oblio on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:55AM
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> I must be pretty lucky.
> [...]
> It has a Threadripper 1950X processor, 128GB of RAM, and an Nvidia Titan V card in it.
Yes, you are, you're rich. An Nvidia Titan V card on Amazon costs about $3k!
Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
by innocentoldguy on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:58AM
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Sadly, yes, which makes the wastefulness of it sitting in the corner that much more poignant.
Regarding CPUs, I'm personally much more interested in being able to run macOS on my computer, iOS on my phone, and tvOS on my TV and have them all work together in ways that make me happy. If Apple could add a car to that, I'd be thrilled. I'm always willing to try other options, but I've just never found a setup that worked quite as well for me.
For example, I have a computer I built from parts from NewEgg and Nvidia about a year ago. It has a Threadripper 1950X processor, 128GB of RAM, and an Nvidia Titan V card in it. I used it for about a week and then went back to my MacBook Pro. The custom-built computer is gathering dust in the corner of my office. My point is that different things are important to different people.