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Re:A DRAM Failure by rroot on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:40AM (#33201081)
I wonder if there's an bug/scandal unfolding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33148984
Re:A DRAM Failure by Fendii on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:04AM (#33202398)
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 (#33202468)
... and the Nord Stream pipeline just spontaneously imploded by natural causes.
Re:A DRAM Failure by Gordonjcp on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:46AM (#33202810)
What's that got to do with old parts failing?
Re:A DRAM Failure by _jal on Friday October 14, 2022 @09:51AM (#33203480)
Think of it is paranoia-pareidolia. People see connections that aren't there and build conspiracy theories on top.
Re:A DRAM Failure by Gordonjcp on Friday October 14, 2022 @12:07PM (#33205381)
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 (#33206211)
Or alternately - people like them spew hot-takes in the desperate hope for an upvote or two.
Re:A DRAM Failure by Fendii on Friday October 14, 2022 @10:29AM (#33203963)
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 (#33203579)
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.