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Comment Re:Digital price labels aren't a problem... (Score 1) 192

This is the same in Italy. Digital price label are used in a percentage of supermarkets, even medium sized ones. Normally they aren't used in the vegetables, fresh fish, meat, and deli areas, where there is not packaged food, I suppose for regulatory reasons.

Comment LLM are trained on existing programming languages (Score 1) 159

LLM are trained on existing programming languages in source code form, so to have an LLM to generate code in a new language a lot of source code has to be present.
Maybe an LLM could produce directly machine code, or p-code instead of having an intermediate step on a language that has to be compiled or interpreted, but this makes more difficult to check and debug the LLM output, and because the output isn't deterministic this makes very diffcult to debug a program.

Comment Re:Good luck... (Score 2) 25

Italian football league and the TV networks have a lot of problems, because people are slowly going away from football. they're blame piracy for tne low number of subscription, but high prices, low quality of the shows and even lower quality of customer service have alienated people, and anyway kids and teen are more interested on other things rather than football.

Comment Re:Who thinks mobile devices are secure? (Score 2) 85

They aren't general purpose personal computer, but somewhat specialized devices. The software one could install on a smartphone has normally a standard installation from a store and it's suppose that it's more curated than the average downloaded package. In other terms because a smartphone it's more limited, there are lesser ways to compromise it compared to a PC, especially if both are used by not tech savvy people.

Comment Re:so fucking dumb (Score 1) 22

I remember that in the late 1980s I visited a cookie factory. A the start of the line that made the butter cookies there was a "ccok" that mixed wheat, water, butter and other ingredients, then put the dough into a machine. In the middle before the packing section there was a woman doing some QA, and at the end there was a guy with a forklift loading the pallets with the cookies to the lorries.

Comment Re:Probably not (Score 1) 120

The cost it's due to land costs, raw material costs, and to a lesser degree the architectural choices.
Zoning laws that favour urban sprawl with single use areas are a cause of high costs of houses in USA, but in other countries there are other causes. In Italy for instance there are very low investments on social housing project compared to the ones that were made in the '70s, either with rent, or lease to buy, and a lot of empty apartments that are kept as investments, but they aren't rentable because they need a total renovation, and a potential buyer had to add the costs of renovations to the selling price.
The most imprtant problem is that, especially in some areas there are private quity funds that buy houses and commercial spaces for speculation.

Comment Re:Gas guzzling V8s don't seem like a good idea (Score 1) 384

I think that a Ford Transit tipper is better suited than an F150 to be used in an actual construction site. The problem is that most of Transit require a commercial driving license because they could load more than 3.5 ton. On the other hand, some Transit van are less than 3,5 ton so they could be driven with a car drivers license.

Comment Re:Gas guzzling V8s don't seem like a good idea (Score 1) 384

This is the same that happens now with lead acid batteries, all the metal and even the sulfuric acid is recycled to make new batteries. The problem with lithium batteries it's that the recycling production chain isn't streamlined like the lead acid one, and alo the fact that people are tossing small batteries.

Comment Re:"I reject your reality, and substitute my own." (Score 1) 153

The solution to bad public school pass to have them adequately funded. It isn't the only factor, but having a sufficient number of teachers and have those teacher not escape to better paid job it's important.

Private schools still need teachers, by the way and teacher are like any normal persons searching jobs, so if in this right-wing dream world without public schools, teachers are still needed. Or the private schools are going to be diploma printing factories?

Comment Re:They used to be annoying (Score 1) 304

And if you drive a manual, you can control when the start and stop should beused or not, simply using the clutch and the stick: to the start and stop to be engaged you have to put in neutral and release the clutch, with the clutch down the engine continues to run. You got used to it in minutes.

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