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Oh, so now I can't voice my opinion until I've been "in the business" for x amount of years? Yeah, nice try.

Another commenter already brought that issue up, but thanks for pointing it out again. I still think that it's quite silly to claim that Ryzen Rev. A may end up being a paperweight based on a mistake that took place a decade ago. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.

And from what I read, it seems like it was an extreme edge case, so the TLB error was triggered only during specific workloads. Sucks to be AMD back then.

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Please don't engage in flamewars on HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13725460 and marked it off-topic.

All I'm saying is it would be better if you knew what you were talking about. AMD has been outsourcing verification to its customers for many years.

> AMD has been outsourcing verification to its customers for many years

You have no idea what you're talking about if you think for a second that a large CPU vendor like AMD would delegate verification to "its customers". It's like saying that Boeing just builds planes and tells airlines to make sure they fly correctly before allowing passengers to board them.

> You have no idea what you're talking about

This is uncivil and not ok on HN. Please take time to edit this kind of swipe out of your comments here.

Seriously? So when I see someone on HN who I think is clearly wrong, I can't say that? I agree that my tone could be improved, but I only said it that way in response to the parent's tone.

Also, how was our argument a "flame war"? It only lasted for 3-4 replies, and was quite civil in my opinion.

I tend to always agree with your decisions, but this one is a bit too extreme.

It's not about "tone" but content and it's quite simple, though always harder to see in one's own case. The HN guidelines say this:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Similarly, "You have no idea what you're talking about if you think for a second that a foo like bar would baz" can be shortened to, "A foo like bar wouldn't baz."

HN's rules apply regardless of how other commenters are behaving. If they didn't, we might as well have no rules, because it always feels like others are behaving worse.

Damn, those are some specific guidelines haha! I will make sure to dial down my responses in the future. Thanks.

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