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   by thedance 7y ago

   Flipped bits are not rare at all. Flipped bits are very common and your computer (or datacenter) has so many transistors that I assure you, bits are flipping all over the place.
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   by thedance 7y ago

   SSDs are always corrupt. Their raw bit error rate can be 90%+ in normal operation. The only reason SSDs work at all is because of awesome math.
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   No Vacancy: The Housing Crisis Laid Bare(medium.com)

   1 points by thedance 7y ago|0 comments
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   by thedance 7y ago

   The problem is your weird anti-abuse hacks automatically shadow-ban whatever account I have if I load HN from certain IPs. So I can’t use any account that’s been burned that way. Of course in the past you’ve denied that this happens, but I
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   by thedance 7y ago

   This does seem to have parted ways with reality in several respects. Read a megabyte from main memory in three microseconds? That’s much too fast, because they model memory getting faster. But they model CPU as stagnant, meaning the time to
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   by thedance 7y ago

   No shout-out to Kanev et al “Profiling a warehouse-scale computer”?