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		woodruffw on Nov 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors (201... You’ve never seen a programming error triggered by a user rapidly mutating state? The programming in question here is ucode instead of application code, but it’s programming nonetheless.

tinus_hn on Nov 10, 2021 [–]

Do you have an example of that? All I can think of are weird edge cases with animations.

woodruffw on Nov 11, 2021 | [–]

The canonical example that I can think of is the entire "race condition" bug class. But also TOCTTOU, caching bugs, &c. (all of which are arguably also in the race condition category.)

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