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A comment on MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs. Parent comment

Re:MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulner... by pertymcpert on Friday May 17, 2019 @07:19PM (#19944504)
What a strange way to measure the benefits of a performance optimization: "how people will perceive it and then ask me for help".
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Re:MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulner... by beagle3 on Saturday May 18, 2019 @01:57PM (#19948742)
You ignored the price issue, which was measurable and real, but also:

It (used to be) my job. Does "because people fall for deceptive marketing, waste money, and then waste my time trying to salvage their reputation" sound better?

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