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Obvious hypothesis: first complacency leads to incompetence, then starting to cut corners has catastrophic consequences. The two problems are wonderfully comple
by HelloNurse 9y ago
Obvious hypothesis: first complacency leads to incompetence, then starting to cut corners has catastrophic consequences. The two problems are wonderfully complementary.
As other comments suggest, there might be a third stage, completely forgetting how to design and validate chips properly.
- eximius 9y agoOr the system was designed poorly to begin with and now you're stuck with the design for backwards compatibility reasons.
- HelloNurse 9y agoI'd expect engineers that are aware of such serious bugs to spit on the grave of backwards compatibility. After all, the worst case impact would be smaller than the current emergency patches: rewriting small parts of operating systems with a variant for new fixed processors.