yeah, it seems like a really weird article. And the main misconception he lists is one of those "true but completely irrelevant" things - it doesn't matter if d

yeah, it seems like a really weird article. And the main misconception he lists is one of those "true but completely irrelevant" things - it doesn't matter if different processes can read different values from the same memory location at the same time, what matters is that for a variety of reasons you can't define what "the same time" is in a useful way, and defining the order events happen in becomes really important.