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Re:Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and ... by walrus01 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:50PM (#16693548)
corollary adage: nine women cannot gestate and give birth to a baby in one month.
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Re:Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and ... by DrScump on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:19AM (#16696043)
See Brooks' little-known sequel: The Mythical Woman-Month
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Re:Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and ... by friedButter on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:38AM (#16696104)
But 9 women can give birth to one baby per month on average
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Re:Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and ... by ptaipale on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:39AM (#16696729)
Not really for a period longer than 9 months. Of course, you can have even 9 women deliver 9 babies in one month, but none in the following 10-12 months.
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Re:Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and ... by stagbeetle on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:46PM (#16694175)
Retort: That's where you're wrong! If we hooked up nine mothers to one single faetus, we could get the job done in 9 months.[0] The same way, if we hooked up our dev teams to a lead that could delegate the work properly, we could pump out a Meltdown patch in around a month and a half.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/28/1205282109?sid=...

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Re:Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and ... by vageli on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:48PM (#16694837)
> Retort: That's where you're wrong! If we hooked up nine mothers to one single faetus, we could get the job done in 9 months.[0] The same way, if we hooked up our dev teams to a lead that could delegate the work properly, we could pump out a Meltdown patch in around a month and a half.

> http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/28/1205282109?sid=....

Except this whole train of thought falls apart once you consider the difficulty of "hooking up 9 mothers to a single fetus". In the same way you down play the difficulty of coordinating multiple teams for a solution around breaking research. Show me a working solution of the former and I'll accept the corollary.

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