Re:Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference
by throwaway48476 on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @10:44PM
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Nvidia cloud instances have competition. What happens when you get vendor lock in with TPU and have no exit plan? Arguably it's competition that drives value creation, not capitalism.
Re:Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference
by simondotau on Thursday April 10, 2025 @02:17AM
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Just don’t let yourself get stuck behind vendor lock-in, or if you do, never let yourself feel trapped, because you never are.
Whenever assessing the work involved in building an integration, always assume you’ll be doing it twice. If that sounds like too much work then you shouldn’t have outsourced to begin with.
Re:Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference
by throwaway48476 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @12:43AM
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Switching costs are a thing everywhere in the economy. Measure twice cut once. Planning on doing the work twice is asinine.
Re:Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference
by simondotau on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:33AM
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Then you shouldn’t have outsourced to begin with.
I don’t want to own open source software and I’d prefer if culture was derived from and contributed to the public domain.
I’m still fully on board with capitalism, but there are many instances where I’d prefer to replace physical acquisition with renting, or replacing corporate-made culture with public culture.