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10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips (mas.to)
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[–] vacuumflower 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't want to use the M-word or the T-word, but those "made up use cases" constitute every computer program in existence.

[–] Retail4068@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Sorry let me correct. Use cases that normal people give two fucks about and based on reality.

[–] vacuumflower 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Each and every one of them, moron. Everything you do on a computer every moment.

[–] Retail4068@lemmy.world 0 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

Guy, you can't even separate your metal tracks on what people care about vs  what is possible.

Point to me where you live in the spectrum.

[–] vacuumflower 2 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

People care about what they care about breaking in their hands and exploding into their faces.

ASD and BAD, probably also ADHD.

People also love to assume what they keep on their hard drives and memory sticks is somehow preserved over time and machine time. Bitflips and other physical effects onto your imagined perfect machine are why it's not, and is as good or worse as what's written on paper. A cat decides to piss onto your grandpa's diary and there's no more diary. Or humidity slowly eats it. With computers it's even faster.

[–] Retail4068@lemmy.world 0 points 44 minutes ago

Oh, now we're launching into hard drive degregation because firefox crashing isn't actually enough to send normies into a rage? 

Nobody but nerds optimizing for use cases for the. 01%.