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One errant cosmic particle and all determinism goes out the door as well. The story of computing is not one of mathematics, it's of people and it's of change.
by wvenable 5y ago
One errant cosmic particle and all determinism goes out the door as well.
The story of computing is not one of mathematics, it's of people and it's of change. Software is about codifying decisions and without perfect knowledge of the universe those decisions are always going to be wrong in some way. And that's even without introducing the infallibility of programmers. Errors are simply part of the process.
- lanstin 5y agoECC and it should be a few cosmic rays :0) but I wouldn't try to write code to work with random bit changes, but implement distributed protocols that can handle a bit of hostility in the data center. Although when the people calling your libraries are bad enough in your call chain, I have found it worth changing the opaque void * from a pointer to a hash value that you look up in an "allocated" structures hash and can return an error rather than dereferencing when they call stuff 5 minutes after calling "de-alloc." (To stop complaints from people calling de-alloc, then calling "do-something" then crashing then blaming my code because I de-ref the opaque pointer.