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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 0 points 7 hours ago

How concerned should I be when the documentation for complex devices coming out of China always seems to be so bad that no one except the people who designed them can program them anyway?

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 8 points 2 days ago

Telemedicine: better than nothing, already used a fair amount in the more inaccessible parts of Canada (ideally in combination with a nursing station so there's someone with some training available to do things that absolutely need hands on location).

AI medicine: likely worse than nothing, some people are going to get killed.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 39 points 3 days ago

They do make hardware in most of those categories, actually, but they don't sell much of it direct to consumer in the West. And unfortunately, the way things are going, they're going to be able to get better prices for it from the AI-entranced idiots too.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 11 points 4 days ago

They're really optimizing for the income of the people who make the apps. No surprise there.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 55 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And thus begins the three-legged race between imaged-based age verification and kids. (Prediction: the kids will win, but it will take the other side a looooong time to admit it.)

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 6 days ago

LLMs need to have the same warnings attached as the old psychic hotlines: "Must be 18. For entertainment only."

That being said, I'm not sure that this is any more ridiculous than an ad asking for ten years' experience with a piece of software that's only existed for three. HR departments have never had much contact with reality.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 9 points 1 week ago (7 children)

With the LLM pushers driving hardware prices through the roof, will any of us be able to afford these?

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

Speaking based on my own PC in that era: it had 512MB RAM and the video card was capable of running FFVII PC version with hardware drivers, so there was some very modest and primitive 3D capability buried in there somewhere. I believe the CPU was a ~500 MHz P3, so I'll grant you that one, and the one about RAM speed. Well, I did only claim they were "somewhat similar".

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

~~Wi-Fi 7~~ Marketing is Lying ~~About it's Biggest Feature~~

Truth in advertising is pretty much nonexistent these days. Assume they're lying until proven otherwise.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Except that it isn't really the first iteration of any of those things. Java did most of 'em more than a quarter century ago: browser-embedable, multiple languages could target the JVM, and, yes, sandboxed—the only issue was startup (not runtime) performance. That wasm doesn't share those startup performance woes makes it useful, but not revolutionary.

As for tiny environments, a typical desktop system from around 1999 is somewhat similar to a Pi Zero W in terms of ability.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 weeks ago

At that point, you've put multiple man-hours into analyzing the response required to placate it, and it isn't a "cheap" device anymore. Easier to return it.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 points 2 weeks ago

Double your traffic congestion, or your money back!

. . . or not, since I've never heard of Tesla voluntarily refunding anything.

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