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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by buryat on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:26AM (#16076760)
Remember that naming is one of the hardest things in software engineering.
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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by mrep on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:06AM (#16077089)
That and off by one errors ;)
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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by endymi0n on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:14AM (#16077118)
Concurrency

You forgot 2) Cache invalidation and 3)

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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by mrep on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:25AM (#16077154)
Haha, you are correct, but there are some other hard problems that I now remember after some quick googling since i forgot all the related jokes :)

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery

There's two hard problems in computer science: we only have one joke and it's not funny.

Source: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by tracker1 on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:27AM (#16077160)
The two most difficult things in software development.

    * naming things
    * cache invalidation
    * off by one errors
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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by taneq on Friday January 05, 2018 @08:51AM (#16078503)
It's always worth having it stated in the canonical form. :)
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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by evanmoran on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:36AM (#16079620)
The fifth hardest thing is figuring out the canonical form :)
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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by pdpi on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:33AM (#16079601)
I’d risk saying we’re all intensely aware how hard Cache invalidation is, right now
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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by endymi0n on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:22PM (#16081762)
well, we can only speculate...
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