Do what you love?
How many times have you heard this? Or this?
Two of the most oft repeated, and driven home, ideas in modern times are be true to yourself and do what you love. But just because they’re oft repeated and driven home doesn’t mean they are actually true. The problem with both statements is they have just enough truth to sound really plausible—and yet they are both simplistic enough to be dangerous when taken raw.
Or maybe it’s just that I’m a grumpy old man who’s been in a bad mood for the last couple of weeks, and misery likes company. 
Let’s try to put some reality into the do what you love statement.
Sometimes you’re just not very good at what you love to do. When I was a kid, I wanted to be an artist. And then a musician. Apparently there are no real jobs for artists or musicians with my somewhat mediocre skills in these two areas. I just have to face it—I’m never going to be a professional basketball player, either. Sometimes it doesn’t matter how much you love something, you just don’t have the skills to master it.
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We introduce Flip Feng Shui (FFS), a new exploitation vector which allows an attacker to induce bit flips overarbitrary physical memory in a fully controlled way. FFS relies on hardware bugs to induce bit flips over memoryand on the ability to surgically control the physical memory layout to corrupt attacker-targeted data anywhere inthe software stack. We show FFS is possible today with very few constraints on the target data, by implementingan instance using the Rowhammer bug and memory deduplication (an OS feature widely deployed in production).Memory deduplication allows an attacker to reverse-map any physical page into a virtual page she owns as long as the page’s contents are known. Rowhammer, in turn, allows an attacker to flip bits in controlled (initially unknown) locations in the target page. -(PDF) Usenix via Schneier on Security
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