The point being that consumer grade memory is straight up error prone, and a bitflip isn't necessarily caused by "cosmic rays" but could just be like, a flaky DRAM chip, network card, etc.
If you are Mozilla it doesn't really matter what the source of bit flips are as much a good understanding of their prevalence and how it might impact your customer experience, telemetry, and even security.
The point being that consumer grade memory is straight up error prone, and a bitflip isn't necessarily caused by "cosmic rays" but could just be like, a flaky DRAM chip, network card, etc.
If you are Mozilla it doesn't really matter what the source of bit flips are as much a good understanding of their prevalence and how it might impact your customer experience, telemetry, and even security.