At least some of this will be stress. If you're enjoying something, then you won't be stressed. If you're feeling positive and delighting in what you do, then you won't be stressed in unhealthy ways. This looks similar to the Mozart Effect, which turned out to be that if you liked something, your brain functioned better.

Yes, charging around the stage playing rock music isn't exactly gentle, but it IS extremely good exercise for the heart and the rest of the body. Again, that's going to have positive effects.

(We can ignore Keith Richards in this model, as he's older than the universe and only created it as a place to store his guitars.)

Those "271 zero days" in Firefox turned into 3 in in the patch-notes and only one was "high" severity. There is a lot of lying in the LLM field.

Well, an LTS kernel only lives so long and that is a problem. Maybe they should so a sort-of extreme LTS that gets security patches for 20 years and then drop all the old drivers from newer kernels.

Thanks for delivering evidence for my claim. Also thanks for demonstrating the LLM cult members have no reasoning capability left.

As an added information, because you do not seem to habe noticed, Slashdot does not support UTF8. You probably do not understand what that means though.

You are overlooking what is used in the industrial field.

Indeed. My firewall / fileserver is on an 18 year old Phenom II 4-core with 32GB RAM and there is no need to replace it. The only thing that broke about 8 years ago was the PSU. Replaced that and it is good fore the foreseeable future.

Then you do not understand how long some industrial equipment runs. "Older kernel" is only a solution if it gets maintenance. You do want that MRI machine taking your pictures to run on a maintained kernel, do you?

Indeed. I had one and I was quite satisfied with it. No idea why they feel the need to portray it as a near-failure.

The Windows fanbois are not rational.

Are still idiots. LLMs do not change that.

Most posters seem to be assuming it's a scam. I can't possibly think of a reason why they might think that. (A few million, yes, but getting it down to one is hard.)

However, that's almost by the by. It's rated for 5G. 5G is old. 6G is the new standard and WiFi 6 has been around for a while now. If you're actually serious about designing a new phone from scratch, and have not yet released it, you'd almost certainly want it to be 6G-capable. Nobody in their right minds designs for yesterday's standards, when they're going to be competing with tomorrow's products.

This, to me, is far far more important than whether or not it is real. If you're designing a product for a market that's on its way out, you've got a serious problem. If you're clamouring for a product that's designed for a standard that could be phased out by the time you see it, then you're not thinking straight.

Why does this matter, if the product isn't real anyway? First, we don't know it's not real, we shouldn't assume that. But, second, it means that nobody thought it was worth bothering with taking the potential customers seriously. The customers are merely meat with cash. That's not an attitude I can respect. Whichever vendor is making these phones is worthy only of my utmost contempt.

There are no good code metrics. There cannot be. The only thing that works to some degree is "expert opinion".

Obviously. But to see that, the C-levels would need actual insight. Nobody with actual insight makes it to that level.

Probably. Will this work? Unlikely. But we need some poster cases of AI failing to keep somebody large alive and Meta is really no loss.

CI without local, not automatically updated repositories is pure insanity. These people are asking to get hacked via supply-chain attack. Looks like a lot of software creation is still done "cheaper than possible".

Let them freak out. It is not your problems that they use unsound practices and (mentally) lazy approaches.