A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend

Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by BruiseLee on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @01:59PM (#21390148)

  long getRandomNumber() {
      return 0xFFFFFFFF; // chosen by fair 4294967295 sided dice roll.
  }                      // guaranteed to be random.

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Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by mark-r on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:04PM (#21390216)

For those that don't recognize the reference: https://xkcd.com/221/

There's a good related Dilbert too: https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

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Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by rmu09 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:48PM (#21390692)

it should say 4294967296 sided dice.

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Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by nullc on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @04:27PM (#21391602)

Dice aren't usually 0 indexed.

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Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by saghm on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @04:36PM (#21391695)

They also usually don't have four billion sides

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Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by Narishma on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @07:18PM (#21393114)

Sure they do, we just call them marbles instead of dice.

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Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by darklajid on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:59PM (#21393973)

This is a signed die and has to have -1 on it somewhere..

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