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Cosmic rays flipping bits: changing election results and aircraft nosedive
- Tomte 5y agoFun fact: bit-flips in microcontrollers usually don't originate with cosmic radiation, but with chip packaging which is (or can be) very slightly radioactive.
- geoah 5y agoA pretty bad edge case with an old intel cpu was mentioned in the linked video as well. An interesting case of bitflips also came up a couple of months back having to do with google’s certificate transparency log. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728287