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Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by zests on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:57AM (#25276861)
What do you expect the salary is for an IT guy that knows how to set up and maintain distributed machine learning infrastructure on prem?
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Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by manigandham on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:36PM (#25285057)
Not that much. It's really no different than setting up other servers. You can also rent services instead of maintaining a FT position.

IT has been commoditized, it's not a special domain of expensive and rare experts anymore.

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Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by bsenftner on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @03:43PM (#25281325)
Don't fool yourself, it is not hard.
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