Can you imagine the possibility that by talking about quantum computers we might inspire some young genius to pursue an idea and accelerate the progress? Whereas if we downplay it as you do, it establishes a mood of pessimism that psychologically makes potential researchers give up before even starting?

What does Scott Aaronson have to say about how this is all nothing to see here, move along?

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.