1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software

Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by cscheid on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:50PM (#36880800)

And yet that's what every good engineer did when Spectre came out. Same with the Pentium fdiv bugs, and same with a host of microcode bugs that come up all the time.

Not my business to decide what you think is reasonable. That's just what happens in the world, and what (in my view) good engineers sign up for.

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Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by chromoblob on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:23PM (#36881357)

The choice is between letting hardware be not finalized and letting that force software to be non-finalizable, and letting software be finalizable and forcing the hardware to be finalized too. I like latter more. Finalized hardware is better by itself as well.

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Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by ChadNauseam on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:00PM (#36882079)

We would all like bug-free hardware, but we won't get it and our job is to write good software in the environment we were given

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Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by chromoblob on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:46PM (#36882852)

> we won't get it

Why do you think so?

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Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by cscheid on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:52PM (#36882949)

> The choice

What choice? I have to fix bugs today as they come.

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