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I wonder if there's an bug/scandal unfolding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33148984


I'm totally lost on why you would think that?

Memory breaks.

I had my share of broken memory too. In data centers you see this regularly.

Those are just two different stories. Nothing really connection them to make a scandal out of this


... and the Nord Stream pipeline just spontaneously imploded due to natural wear and tear.


What's that got to do with old parts failing?


Think of it is paranoia-pareidolia. People see connections that aren't there and build conspiracy theories on top.


Oh is that like how they switched on 5G on the mast down the road from me and s couple of days later the propshaft UJs in my old Range Rover have developed a squeak and vibration? It must be the 5G and not the 130,000 miles on the clock, right? Got to be the 5G!


Or alternately - people like them spew hot-takes in the desperate hope for an upvote or two.


There are probably billion dram chips in the world.

And all of them need to be so perfect that a billion single cells are refreshed, read and written every few ns.

It's very normal that sometimes a ram module breaks.

That's the reason why ECC exist.

ECC also exists btw for bit flip from space radiation.


Didn't Linus S. build this system? https://youtu.be/Kua9cY8q_EI?t=396

"Good enough" is what he was told. It sure was, until it wasn't.




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