Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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The probability of losing your life to a cosmic ray bit-flip is increasing daily (lemmy.ml)

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[–] olafurp 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought we already had a way to deal with bit flips. CPU bit flips should be common by now because of the size of processors these days.

[–] Thoth19 4 points 4 months ago

Yup. There is technology to deal with this. But does every piece of hw have that tech? No. Does every piece of sw run eccs for this purpose? No.