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I had no idea this was a real thing - I always thought that xkcd comic[0] was just a random joke. [0]https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
by preommr 10mo ago
I had no idea this was a real thing - I always thought that xkcd comic[0] was just a random joke.
[0]https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
- aruametello 10mo agoTo dial up the weirdness, sometimes the solar flare activity has spikes (https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-flares.html https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-fla...) and these have a mild relationship with the odds of having "bitflips" in that timeframe. we had a "historic bad solarweather" a bunch of years ago and i talked with a cyber cafe operator that "you could have more computers bluescreen on this week than usual". to me it got really weird when he said later he really did, but honestly its 50/50 that could had been just incidental. in another note there are some "rather intense" discussions when someone speedrunning a game gets a "unreproducible glitch" in their favor, some claim its a flaw from ageing dram hardware, but some always point that it could be a cosmic ray bitfliping the right bit. (https://tildes.net/~games/1eqq/the_biggest_myth_in_speedrunning_history_a_cosmic_ray_didnt_help_a_mario_64_speedrunner https://tildes.net/~games/1eqq/the_biggest_myth_in_speedrunn...)
- nomel 10mo agoIt's literally one of the reasons ECC RAM exists.
- mikestew 10mo agoI had no idea this was a real thing Oooh, in that case I have another xkcd you might like, involving mint candies and soft drinks…