fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
yet another day of looking at pine64 stuff and realizing that it's just not powerful enough for any of my usecases..
hence why i don't know why i feel so compelled to get something from them
also can someone explain what the purpose of those raspberry pi/pine64 cluster boards is, like why not get a single piece of real hardware instead
@f0x school IT education. Get kids building cheap clusters so they get grounded in how supercomputers work without actually building one, which would cost billions.
@der_bluthund so why not use virtualization then, instead of lots of duplicated hardware
@f0x coz, believe it or not, kids learn things better and more deeply if it is done hands on. Yeah they might learn the lesson if they just do a VM, but by doing it physically the lesson is really ingrained in them. And getting elbows deep into the actual guts of a cluster makes the lesson so much more interesting, again, making the lesson sit more firmly within their noggins.
@der_bluthund is it really "hands-on" and "deep into the actual guts" when it's just plugging in small, encased modules in sodimm slots on a base board
@f0x *most* of human learning is by doing.
@f0x it's physical. Like doing maths, even binary, paper method got it into our brains. And they still have to do all the problem solving and python programming to make the damn thing work, which is the point.