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kevin_thibedeauyesterday at 8:38 PM1 replyview on HN

> What are the prior probabilities

100% for electronics operating at altitude. Also on the ground, but we mostly act like it doesn't happen and are usually ignorant of the root cause when it does.


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RealityVoidyesterday at 8:47 PM

100% of what? Those things have ECC and redundancy to the hilt. The data corruption odds are real and higher than one would expect but still not very high.

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