Edit: for the record, Fuck AI

Image of a bell curve.

The left side has a dumb man saying "Computers have magic elves inside"

The center has an angry nerd saying "Computers are deterministic logical systems. They give the same outputs for the same inputs"

The right side has a man in a hoodie saying "Computers have magic elves inside"
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago*

Bitflips are fun.

For a while, I managed a fleet of about 6500 iPod touch devices, and we would have random failures on devices where a simple re-image would solve the problem. I did a back of the napkin calculation, and our rate of those failures was almost exactly the expected cosmic radiation bitflip chance for the total surface area of all the storage chips in our devices.

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