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I once had a bug that was triggered by sunlight. We fixed it by painting the device black.
by plasticchris 4y ago
I once had a bug that was triggered by sunlight. We fixed it by painting the device black.
- Simon_O_Rourke 4y agoSimilarly, I worked on a team that experienced backend failures in a custom distributed hash table that some crazy person decided to deploy on the cheapest server tier available from Hetzner hosting. Every hot summer day around 3pm, we started to see cascading failures in the DHT nodes. Turned out Hetzner were to cheap to pay for cooling for their cheapest server racks and they all failed like clockwork when it got hot enough outside.
- waste_monk 4y agoIs that something like erasing an EEPROM with sunlight? I recall Raspberry PI's had an issue where certain types of flash photography would cause them to shut down :) https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/xenon-death-flash-a-free-physics-lesson/ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/xenon-death-flash-a-free-ph...