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That is from the UK. The UK has no idea what rust is or what salted roads are.

I've rusted through multiple cars (also in the North East) in the last 20 years while a friend still has his 2006 model year car in pristine condition with regards to that and is debating whether to buy a new one coz he finally wants to take advantage of some of the advances since then but he can't justify it coz it's still fine and costs him just a few hundred bucks in normal maintenance.

You spelled Wendy's wrong.

Sounds more like either an actual compliance or preventative CYA compliance thing if you ask me.

If they think they need to show you this (for whatever reason, their legal department said so), then it has nothing to do with bad UX design but really, being in between a rock and a hard place. If my legal team made me do this, I'd also show it every single time, because you have zero guarantee that the person driving the car this time is the same person that saw and accepted the dialog the last time. Even if you think about "driver profiles", that totally goes out the window in a rental car scenario for sure and even in a non-rental one, not everyone that has a car that has "driver profiles" will make use of the feature.

So as a dev I would show this for whatever period of time legal required me to show it, to CYA for the above cases and then I'd just close it because I don't want to annoy people so much as to actually require an actual "click" on the accept button.

YMMV as always. I don't even notice the visuals. The lane change alerts at least in the two Subarus I've had that had EyeSight already have it on the main dash, i.e. the small screen not the big Infotainment screen in the middle console.

I don't get the "turning off because lane markings" comment tbh and we got some pretty bad ones here as well, especially in winter (i.e. often none at all :) Are we talking completely different things or did they change anything past 2024 models (last one I know)?

Coz EyeSight does not turn off just because there are no markings. It turns off if it can't see, i.e. too much rain, smudgy glass in front of the cameras etc. It doesn't care about the lane markings just to follow the car in front of me. But sure if it can't find the lane markings then I can't enable the auto-steering (which I find way too janky anyway - pretty annoying that it seems to steer left and right between the markings instead of holding steady in the middle and adjusting smoothly, so I never use it).

I can never remember where settings I touch exactly once to set them up either. For any car. Set it and forget it.

No experience with carplay but Android Auto support does depend a lot on the phone. My older Motorola and Samsung phone always sucked, often didn't connect at all with most cables. Since I got a Pixel, zero problems at all.

Well I for one got so used to the CVT it's not even funny any more. Every time we rent a car we get a random non-CVT car and the acceleration behavior is just so funky in comparison, I can't stand it any more.

Nobody has to accept that disclaimer even a single time. I never have. Most times its disappeared before I ever get a chance to have to do anything on the screen. I just start driving :shrug:

Interesting how Infotainment crosses into EyeSight for you though. That's not at all what that means.

And yes it beeps and you can't turn the beeping off completely. It's supposed to annoy you into using the blinkers properly. Different cars/model years seem to have different levels of annoyingness in the actual beep and different volume settings available though.

My (also 2020) never beeps when EyeSight can't see the lanes, whether its steering or not. It beeps when you cross a line without blinking or you're crossing the lines and would soon be driving on the shoulder/into the trees. It does sometimes have issues where it beeps a bit too early, i.e. it seems the calculations from the visuals are a bit off in certain situations.

Caveat: I've not been on GLP-1s.

Sounds quite a bit like when I started the probiotics I've been on for quite a few many years now: When I started these ones, I actually started feeling worse than before. Ultimately though, after IIRC about two weeks of feeling worse than before, things got better.

I started out being lethargic all the time (in hindsight: way, way too many years, I just didn't put 2+2 together on multiple symptoms!). Migraine headaches from certain foods as well as any amount of alcohol and even non-alcoholic beer for example, essentially anything that produces histamines (which certain foods as well as alcohol consumption does).

After the probiotics "fought and won the battle" against whatever was inhabiting my intestines before that, I felt totally fine. No more lethargy. Could eat all the histamine rich foods in the world (Roquefort, here I come again, you're soooo tasty! Maybe with a glass of red wine too) and be fine. Never looked back. Life is way more fun now.

I might want to get on GLP-1s to not like alcohol and too much Roquefort now, while still not being lethargic, lol!

    Those stressors could have pushed even rainy cities past what the local societies could tolerate, as mutually reinforcing crises rippled into each other.

That seems to be the part you're not quoting (sentence right after what you quoted) that rings true to that and I do think should be called out to "make your point".

Like, think back to the "Arab spring" when mass migration attempts were made towards Western Europe (some of it continuing today). In geological history context, a thousand years from now, that's within the timeframe examined in the article for the past, given Europe is now experiencing more drought-like conditions itself as well.

Or think of South American mass-migration attempts from a few years ago, that went all the way up to Canada. Never mind the grab for Ukraine's most prolific wheat production areas (I'll leave it up to the reader to search up maps for this - they do differ by years for example but we can see a general tendency towards anything east of the Dnipro river being a really good area to have under your control in the future.

The fun thing is: I don't think this will change that much with AI in the mix ;)

Shitty devs without AI are slowly building BS that wants to be cleaned up.

Shitty devs with AI are much more fasterly building BS that wants to be cleaned up.

I have a similar experience as yours, just add another 10-ish years to the timeline. Literally my first job out of uni, I got to work on a legacy code base that was another 15 years older than that which had a ton of reports all built differently over time with slight variations in both code and end user output that really all wanted to be "the same" both on the code and end user side. So I slowly but surely, one user/PM requested change at a time would build out a common layer of abstractions and shared code that both made the code shared and easier to maintain (great for me!) and consistent for users (great for the PM/users).

Heck, I built a rudimentary TransactSQL parser that'd output stored procedure call graphs to graphviz and then I printed it and hung it on the wall to get through all this and having an LLM to just make a mermaid out of this in 5-ish minutes would definitively have been faster than I was ;)

With an LLM all of that would just have been faster to do but still worthwhile and useful on both levels. I.e. both code abstraction/reuse and PM/user level. Similarly there was a report that one of the devs had to actually run manually and it took him a full week, so users that wanted the report would only request it once a year-ish. When I was asked to learn how to run it from him I was appalled and just took that week to put it into a script that we ran and emailed the report out once a month automatically. They ran that report manually like that for like 10 years prior to that :mindblown:

None of this is an "AI thing". It's a good dev vs. not so good dev thing. And none of it really has to do with coding as in "writing source code" as much as "solving problems for humans" somehow and the "language" you do that in changes over time. If you're the guy that's tied up with the particular language: yeah LLMs are gonna eat your lunch. If you're the problem solver type that uses whatever tools they have available, you're still in demand.

There's only so many formatting choices available on HN. Making a nice looking "bullet point list" of things, the best I've found is so far is to

    use
 
    monospace

    support

:shrug: That does not mean they're quotes or else there'd be a [1] with a link or names. Let me know if you have a better way; make sure it looks nice!

It was widely used, even in government and military. Who knows if they actually used the same as everyone else in actuality. I guess none of this is proven beyond doubt, given the nature of all this?!

    Reporting on declassified history says the NSA pushed for a shorter DES key; the compromise was 56 bits

    NSA and a suspected cryptographic backdoor: the Dual_EC_DRBG random-number generator was the subject of reporting about an NSA backdoor and an alleged payment to RSA. RSA denied knowingly weakening its products.

    TLS 1.0’s CBC chaining made IVs predictable and enabled the BEAST attack. That’s a documented protocol weakness, allegedly put in there by US state actors on purpose.

YMMV but none of this would surprise any reasonable person given Snowden's revelations.

3DES...