It's kinda interesting that

[catfish_man@mastodon.social]

It's kinda interesting that

a) random bit flips DO happen, and frequently enough that people have been able to measure the per-gigabyte rate in various memory technologies with pretty good precision

b) in 16 years of triaging bug reports from an installed base of >1 billion devices I have *never* seen a "random cosmic ray bit flip" bug report that didn't end up being something else under closer examination

[catfish_man@mastodon.social]

The running joke among some of my friends is that we defend against cosmic rays by filling the entirety of memory with high-color-depth high-resolution bitmaps, such that it's wildly unlikely a random bit flip will hit something critical

[whitequark@mastodon.social]

@Catfish_Man 💭 you could probably do triple modular redundancy of every .code page and barely improve %used