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		loeg 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips I disagree with your handwaving bitflips away as a minor annoyance. Consumers don't love software crashing, even if they don't have any data they care about. Imagine ECC was free -- would you rather have free ECC and no bitflips, or no ECC and bitflips? It's hard to imagine choosing bitflips.

throwaway85825 20 days ago [–]

ECC would save an unbelievable amount of labor. A shocking number of people have jobs looking at various logs.

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