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Supermancho on Nov 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: As I retire, my goal now is to release 40+ years o...

> Also, you can definitely stop cosmic rays

As I understand it, bit flipping in RAM is mitigated by error correction, via auxilliary and redundant bits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_random-access_memory#R...

vitus on Nov 5, 2023 [–]

ECC RAM is for the most part relegated to server-grade components, for what it's worth. So your phone, your laptop, your router? Almost certainly not using any ECC RAM, unless you've gone out of your way to do so.

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