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4 bit flips per GB in a working day, in every GB of my laptop. Let's keep using powers of 2: 256 days when I'm using it it's 1024 bit flips per GB per year. Som
by pmontra 4y ago
4 bit flips per GB in a working day, in every GB of my laptop. Let's keep using powers of 2: 256 days when I'm using it it's 1024 bit flips per GB per year. Some will happen in unused memory, some in running programs. It's 1024 * N bit flips in our code editor per year, were N is how many times our editor + language servers are larger than 1 GB.
Some in unused and unsaved data, some in code paths I'm not using. However some will probably crash a program because of a wrong or invalid machine code instruction or visibly alter data.
Times that per the number of people using computers. Those spelling mistakes or wrong figures were not our fault after all?
In a code editor people should see one character git diffs in files that are open in the editor, parked in a long unused tab (if the editor detects the change and saves it or asks to.)