It's best not to gloat about things we are all vulnerable to.

My team at work has been snickering for two years about serious memory problems on a system our code partially replaces. I did not participate (see above).

Guess what I've spent the last few weeks working on? Go ahead, guess.

Lol, "fans". This is computer architecture design, not the NFL. We judge the quality of the product, not jump on bandwagons (or we SHOULD). Both Intel and AMD do amazing, extraordinarily complicated and difficult work, and we all benefit from it, at the price of making those companies wealthy. I'm very glad those two companies have different products, different approaches to computer design. It gives us room to maneuver and compare. For a time, Intel did better work. Now AMD is pushing the boundaries. Being a fanperson about them is just ridiculous. They make each other better by having differing approaches. Please don't encourage bandwagonism, or introduce it as a topic. It makes us all look just a little bit dumber, and it's an overused rhetorical tactic.

I'm here, I just think that if you are comparing this to a real vulnerability like specter or meltdown you are making a mount Fuji out of an ant hill. It leaks some metadata, not exactly an afternoon romp through your memory like the last few Intel bugs they've found this year.

Underdog spirit

>If you laugh at what other's don't have, you forget what you do.

In general, AMD processors have fewer issues. Is that bad? Why bring others down instead of bring yourself up.

I’ve said it before, half those people bought AMD stock, but are amateur Robinhood investors and didn’t diversify.

So AMD vs Intel is very personal for them.