alt Hacker NewsThat makes it vanishingly unlikely. On a 16GB RAM computer with that rate, you can expect 64 random bit flips per month.
So roughly you could expect this happen roughly once every two hundred million years.
Assuming there are about 2 billion Windows computers in use, that’s about 10 computers a year that experience this bit flip.
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justsomehnguy • yesterday at 10:47 PM
I saw a computer with 'system33', 'system34' folders personally. Also you would never actually know it happened because... it's not ECC. And with ECC memory we replace a RAM stick every two-three months explicitly because ECC error count is too high.
> 10 computers a year experience this bit flip
That's wildly more than I would have naively expected to experience a specific bit-flip. Wow!