Maybe the old jokes about the ATT logo resembling the Death Star were more on point than we realized
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Satya has now joined the ranks of Yogi Berra: “Surprises are bad.”
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The hits just keep coming:
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I’m torn in my feelings about these things. On one hand the danger of these continued flaws IMHO can’t be overstated. The TLDR of this that it’s no longer a matter of if you will ever fall prey to one of these , but when and how.
OTOH speaking purely as an engineer, the ingenuity of some of these also impresses me.
It also reminds me of something I learned very early on which was that for every option or feature you add to a design, you should plan on at least three ways for it to fail, or operate in ways you didn’t plan for/imagine
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Right? One commenter on Ars did raise a fair point: “Why put an entire image parsing library in the UEFI?” Answer probably: “because it’s easy”.
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“The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.”
- Capt. Mongomery Scott, Ret’d
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Is this another “Game over MAN!” moment? I’m serious - it would seem that no matter how vigilant you are this one is going to bust your chops no matter what you do.
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