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Interestingly, there are people for whom this is of 0 surprise, and who built systems avoiding issues like this decades ago. See e.g. many comments by user http
by akavel 9y ago
Interestingly, there are people for whom this is of 0 surprise, and who built systems avoiding issues like this decades ago. See e.g. many comments by user https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickpsecurity https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickpsecurity, who tries to pursue a bona fide mission to educate. The main problem was of cost, and current "modern" processors are generally an example of the how the "it's cheaper to fail and then apologise" approach wins economically for consumer software.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> The main problem was of cost, and current "modern" processors are generally an example of the how the "it's cheaper to fail and then apologise" approach wins economically for consumer software. This happens everywhere; hell, that's how we ended up with Unix. "Worse is better".