Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Beijing Biden Begs People Not to Show Up for His Asterisk Inauguration Parade" video.

  1. Some of the weird computer shit that goes on is just because bug-free software is a virtual impossibility! And as software complexity increases, so does its potential for buggy behavior--exponentially! People don't realize how error-prone computers are: bit errors happen infrequently, in computer time. If it happens 0.01% of the time, in human terms, because of the computing speeds involved, and considering computers routinely perform millions of operations in a single second, that amounts to more frequent errors in human terms. Usually, bit errors are corrected in software; or, they just don't matter. It's hard to find RAM memory these days that is ECC, error-correcting in hardware. From the user perspective, it's a huge blind spot; you ignore the error issue and blithely accept computer behavior as "correct". Some might say non-ECC memory renders you PC a toy...I wonder if banks insist on ECC memory...
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