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
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David Smith
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It's kinda interesting that -
It's kinda interesting thatIt'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