Meh, I suppose. IMO it's not worth optimizing in a car that's able to remember settings associated with a driver. In "dumb" cars, if the regular drivers are different sizes (I'm 8 inches taller than my wife) you need to be able to quickly and easily adjust the mirror positions, because you have to do it a lot. In my Tesla, I mostly find it annoying that the main rear-view mirror doesn't automatically adjust, requiring me to reach up and move it by hand. I think the best fix for that, though, is to replace it with a screen fed from a rear-view camera.

Again, this mostly seems moot with per-driver, automatically-applied settings. I have the air flow adjusted to my liking and never touch it. I never manually adjust fan speed, either, only the thermostat... and that I do by long-pressing the left thumb wheel then scrolling up or down. I have to long-press because I like the media controls to be the "primary" use of that wheel.

I think this claim is overrated, at least for me. I end up having to look quite a bit. Obviously once I've found the control I could look back at the road while I adjust it... but I often don't do that in vehicles with manual controls, like my truck. Again, I prefer to adjust the climate control by changing the thermostat rather than playing with temperature or fan volume by "feel", and I have to see the temperature display which is in the center console. I know what temperatures I prefer, though, so I look move my hand to the control, rotate it until it shows the temp I want, then return my attention to the road.

Similarly with the sound system. I know what volume I prefer and adjust until the display shows that level. On the rare occasion I listen to the radio I don't use the tuning knob, I use the "scan" button, which requires looking while I hit the button, then listening until the right station comes on, then looking while I hit the button again to stop the scan.

Different strokes, I guess. I quite like Tesla's system. I did prefer having a stalk for the turn signals rather than the buttons on the steering wheel. My wife likes the buttons... which is interesting because she prefers to drive manually a lot more than I do, so it may be that I just haven't given them a chance. She says she likes that she can signal without having to take her hand off the wheel. I use FSD pretty much all the time except when I'm driving for fun, which I basically never do in environments where I have to use turn signals.

So essentially the EEs have made a mess and now expect software to fix it? Well. If this driver really allows general hardware access, it is a security problem waiting to happen and should not be used at ll.

On a related note, I do not understand the point of colorful lights in keyboards and the like. But then, I am not mentally 5 years old.

The problem with C is that it is easy to learn, but hard to master. The primary advantage of Rust is that it is hard to learn and hard to master. That keeps the idiots out and it probably its most significant actual security advantage.

No. Not even close.

It can be. But it requires high coders skills and insights. In Rust the skill requirements are probably a bit (not that much) lower, but since Rust is hard to learn, you force competence in an indirect way. Yes, stupid, but that is one of the hoops needed to convince clueless "management".

It is not actually possible. Or rather unsafe stuff in C will remain unsafe in Rust. In addition, most/all other bugs (like logic errors, wrong use of system APIs, etc.) in the C code will remain. Rust does not magically make code secure. Coding directly in Rust has some advantages, as it is hard to learn and that keeps the prevalent low-skill coders out. Rust can also avoid some problems (not that many) when the code is designed for Rust. C code is obviously not.

That said, there is an application scenario for this: If you C code is in good shape, but you want to do additional development and maintenance in Rust from a certain point onwards. That does not improve the old C/Rust code, but it may have some benefits for new code and for changes.

Say EUR 5 is so. Voided for safe battery chemistries. Make everybody that sells any LiPo or Li-Ion batteries and devices take every one back, regardless of whether they sell that particular one. Yes, businesses will scream, ignore them.

Fascinating. Is driver writing on Windows so utterly messed up that writing and maintaining what is a really simple driver on the functionality side is something nobody wants to do?

Yes, unfortunately. Well a big shakeup is coming and we will get liability and likely qualification requirements. The EU CRA (and also the GDPR and the DSA) are already starting that process. I guess a lot of bad coders will lose their jobs in the next 5-10 years. The same has happened in every other engineering field when society finally admitted to itself that quality matters in important technologies.

While the systemd-fiasco did nicely show that Debian has gotten partially corrupted, most package maintainers did still do a good job and Devuan gets around that Windows-inspired crap. But if they allow AI in, then they are going to get worse and worse and I am not sticking around for that.

I do not think you know what "doing mathematics" means. All LLMs can really do for mathematics is better searching. That will find a few overlooked things, because the mathematical literature is very dispersed and hard to search. But that is it. Incidentally, even a fields medal does not usually qualify you do understand LLMs. But many experts in one field have no understanding of how limited their insight is in another. So, yes, I am absolutely not above to call a fields medal winner that makes a stupid statement about LLMs a "moron". I could also call them "idiot savant" for something that sounds better but is not.

You are just a moron that does not understand Science at all. The actual state-of-the-art is that we do not know how a human mind works, despite your hallucinations.

Exactly. All these hallucinations about plausible deniability require somebody with an actual clue on the other side. Customs people generally do not have that. And, funny coincidence, they can still lock you up and mess up all your travel plans even when they understand the facts. A customs agent is very much not the person you want to try to assert intellectual dominance over. That is a really, really dumb thing to try.

This means despite all the assholes and all the idiots there, even the US is slowly going to green energy, fore purely economic reasons.

I think the obvious counter to an influx in bug reports / pull requests is to have the first layer of review of bug reports / pull requests to be AI as well.

Final remains humans.