Yeah that was one of the gotchas in the story at https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/attack-of-the-cosmic-rays https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/attack-of-the

Yeah that was one of the gotchas in the story at https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/attack-of-the-cosmic-rays https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/attack-of-the-cosmic-ray... -- MAYBE it was a bit flip due to a cosmic ray, or MAYBE it was a bit flip due to another layer of the system that makes RAM chips store and retrieve data. I like the idea of a physicist who thinks about this and says - "well, why should we shrug and say 'maybe it was a cosmic ray?' Surely we can test this! Let's put the computer in a lead-lined enclosure and benchmark the memory failure rate and see if it changes", or whatever. That's a great extension of the classic computer-hacker view that "of course we can understand why this bug happened, we don't have to shrug and say it segfaults until we restart sometimes, we can just dig some more." How far can you go?