Re:A DRAM Failure
by rroot on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:40AM
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I wonder if there's an bug/scandal unfolding:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33148984
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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
Re:A DRAM Failure
by KirillPanov on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:12AM
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... and the Nord Stream pipeline just spontaneously imploded by natural causes.
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!
Re:A DRAM Failure
by NickRandom on Friday October 14, 2022 @01:08PM
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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.
Re:A DRAM Failure
by 1970-01-01 on Friday October 14, 2022 @09:59AM
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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.