• ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Nearly every computer you use, including the ones people are starting to use for self-driving, can have their memory accidentally modified from cosmic rays

    We try really hard to protect spaceships from them, since they’re subject to more

    However, due to the law of large numbers, sometimes your computer will get random bit flips - where it should be a 0, but it’s instead a 1, or vice versa