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RealityVoidyesterday at 11:39 PM1 replyview on HN

After reset, it went away. If it was this kind of hw issue, it should still be present.

Considering those units were designed back when they did not have EDAC mandated, I can believe it could have been a bit flip (along with some other stuff they will probably address to take into consideration this failure mode). Nowadays, most MCU's have ECC on them so the time of this excuse is mostly gone now. :)


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dylan604today at 1:58 AM

> Nowadays, most MCU's have ECC on them so the time of this excuse is mostly gone now. :)

That's kind of a misleading statement. Assuming you mean on planes built nowadays, as we clearly see that nowadays planes still flying (6K of them at least) still have issues. We don't need hand wavy comments trying to make it sound like modern day aviation is no longer susceptible, especially when it's in a thread on an article showing how that's just not true

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