Jason Apple @japple323.bsky.social

And that’s just at the code level. I think a lot about the fact that cosmic radiation can just flip a random bit at any time and make a computer go wonky.

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MikeasaService @ultor.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 15:01 UTC

I remember when Sun built SPARC processors with 8GB of non-ECC cache and spent a lot of time dealing with flipped bits making things go wonky. I had one customer where we solved their stated crashing problem by moving it away from the elevator shaft.

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Bjorning @bjorning.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 01:40 UTC

Thankfully, it is possible to build systems resilient to this problem. Unfortunately, most systems aren't.

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TechnicallyOwen @technicallyowen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 05:22 UTC

The scary thing is that applies to our bodies and is responsible for us existing

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