Re:More Intel speculative execution vulnerabilities
by coldtea on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:37AM
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>Pray, why do you think I would expend the effort of deliberately increasing my 'exposure' if I did not notice the effects of these mitigation on my workloads ?
You'd be surprised what people would do. Could be just out of some spite ("fuck Intel"). Could not even include any measurable workloads ("I want my machine to go ultra fast").
>Do you understand my risk and load requirements better than I do ?
For you particularly probably not, but you'd be surprised how many times a third party can "understand the risk and load requirements" of someone else (even a business) better than they do.
E.g. the "No, you don't need a Hadoop cluster for doing "ML" on a 1GB file", phenomenon.
>Have you entertained the possibility that the decision to de-mitigate was the result of considered risk and resource management modeling ?
Only briefly, cause the tone of the comment made it sound more of a knee jerk reaction ("No I don't give a fuck about the 'risk' this introduces", "until everything is swapped to AMD") doesn't sound like the fruits of rational analysis...
You'd be surprised what people would do. Could be just out of some spite ("fuck Intel"). Could not even include any measurable workloads ("I want my machine to go ultra fast").
>Do you understand my risk and load requirements better than I do ?
For you particularly probably not, but you'd be surprised how many times a third party can "understand the risk and load requirements" of someone else (even a business) better than they do.
E.g. the "No, you don't need a Hadoop cluster for doing "ML" on a 1GB file", phenomenon.
>Have you entertained the possibility that the decision to de-mitigate was the result of considered risk and resource management modeling ?
Only briefly, cause the tone of the comment made it sound more of a knee jerk reaction ("No I don't give a fuck about the 'risk' this introduces", "until everything is swapped to AMD") doesn't sound like the fruits of rational analysis...