@zephyr_z9 This is known. Samsung does not allow any part of it to provide discounted services to any other part. Exynos for years have been required to pay market rate to Samsung Foundry to fab their SoCs, and likewise with Samsung Mobile and Samsung Display.
@elleturpitt@PaperWhispers American prices seem insane to me because in Australia the PRIVATE cost of a GP appointment (fully self funded, no government rebate or insurance) is like.....~$90 AUD ($60USD). WTF do you mean you guys get charged $200 for the same thing over there?
i think instead of hating on other trans cultures in the name of anti-us-centrism, perhaps we should use this opportunity to introduce our own trans cultures to one another. heres our chinese trans girl ๅฐ่ฏๅจ starter pack:
@immyonboard@railmaps Anyway AI bros will tell you that it's progressing to muh AGI but the real reason for these massive models are better programming ability and automation, basically trying to replace repetitive manual tasks. As for image gen, it's because they're too lazy to pick up a pencil.
@immyonboard@railmaps The big headline models are geared towards software programming use, but there are also a lot of advances being made towards making models more efficient and to improve existing features like fuzzy search (RAG), translation, dictation, image recognition etc.
@immyonboard@railmaps It's all very boring stuff but DeepSeek literally started building LLMs in order to improve the OCR qualities of financial documents.
@immyonboard@railmaps Ignoring the big models for now, there's been a huge leap in terms of on device capabilities driven by research into these smaller models. Compare standard phone voice to text to a small dictation model (my phone actually runs a native model) and there's a world of difference
@PAstynome Good. One rep told me they were charging *$170* for an injection molded negative pressure device that was quite literally a big syringe with a spring on one end.
@headlitesdeer Part of the issue is that there's basically no surgeons here that does it (3 vaginoplasty surgeons, 1 phalloplasty surgeon) and to quote a trans doctor/tutor of mine "it's more economical to fly to Thailand, get it done, then take a month's holiday than doing it here"
@davebeerflog It's worse than pub steaks, awful. Last and only time I went it was so severely overcooked I abandoned most of it. Cost 65 bucks too, not exactly cheap.