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I wonder if there's an bug/scandal unfolding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33148984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33148984
by rroot 4y ago
I wonder if there's an bug/scandal unfolding:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33148984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33148984
- Fendii 4y agoI'm totally lost on why you would think that? Memory breaks. I had my share of broken memory too. In data centers you see this regularly. Those are just two different stories. Nothing really connection them to make a scandal out of this
- KirillPanov 4y ago... and the Nord Stream pipeline just spontaneously imploded due to natural wear and tear.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoWhat's that got to do with old parts failing?
- _jal 4y agoThink of it is paranoia-pareidolia. People see connections that aren't there and build conspiracy theories on top.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoOh is that like how they switched on 5G on the mast down the road from me and s couple of days later the propshaft UJs in my old Range Rover have developed a squeak and vibration? It must be the 5G and not the 130,000 miles on the clock, right? Got to be the 5G!
- NickRandom 4y agoOr alternately - people like them spew hot-takes in the desperate hope for an upvote or two.
- Fendii 4y agoThere are probably billion dram chips in the world. And all of them need to be so perfect that a billion single cells are refreshed, read and written every few ns. It's very normal that sometimes a ram module breaks. That's the reason why ECC exist. ECC also exists btw for bit flip from space radiation.
- 1970-01-01 4y agoDidn't Linus S. build this system? https://youtu.be/Kua9cY8q_EI?t=396 https://youtu.be/Kua9cY8q_EI?t=396 "Good enough" is what he was told. It sure was, until it wasn't.