Comment on Tesco trials giant trolley scales in GatesheadparentComments−3eb7988a16631yWe are not even talking Amazon levels of inventory. A store has what, 10k, 20k items for sale? The entire store inventory prices could fit into <1MB of memory (without pictures).−grues-dinner1yYeah, but you can shave a couple of pounds off the device cost by using a shitbox CPU with almost no RAM or flash!It also means that the embedded developers can't start writing web frameworks into the devices, so they might actually ship this decade.
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We are not even talking Amazon levels of inventory. A store has what, 10k, 20k items for sale? The entire store inventory prices could fit into <1MB of memory (without pictures).
Yeah, but you can shave a couple of pounds off the device cost by using a shitbox CPU with almost no RAM or flash!
It also means that the embedded developers can't start writing web frameworks into the devices, so they might actually ship this decade.