Comments by "" (@steemlenn8797) on "The Universe is Hostile to Computers" video.

  1.  @nekiritan6779  But I don't know if every few hours makes sense since viewers are all over the globe in different time zones.
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  2. The computer still didn't make a mistake. It had an error. It's decisions were still correct.
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  3. I probably had such a bit flip waaay back in my youth. There was a racing game. My father and I were playing it a lot and the top 10 had only 0,4 seconds difference from place 1 to 10. So one day we say: Mother, you play too! Mother no! Me: I play for you, see! I drove a race (not even trying hard) and... ended up being a full second faster then the existing record (which we would never beat by even a tenth of a second). So of course I entered my mothers name as the fastest driver ever.
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  4.  @ZeekDaGeek  Hmm... you certainly have a point, but I don't think that he tests for country efficiency when he still has no idea if a certain headline will work good or bad :D
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  5. Something like that happened to me (long ago). In a race game suddenly I was a full second faster than the record. At that moment I was playing for my mother trying to get her into playing, so of course I entered her name. Her record as being a full second faster than anyone else without even playing the game was never in danger of being beaten.
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  6.  @cybersteel8  ECC is slower and/or more expensive. For the average user (especially gamer) that's more important than a graphics glitch per month you likely never notice and maybe a single bluescreen per year.
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  7.  @xwithoutxanyxwarningx5191  I can't blame you for not believing it, I saw it happen in real time and could not believe it either :D I mena it would have been strange enough if it happened when I played normally, but in that one game where I drove for my mother? That's probably how religions are born: IF there is a God, he should make me faster than anybody else! Universe: I heard you!
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  8. Yeah, showing it is bad enough, but using teh sounds shoudl be forbidden. My heart rate always goes up by 50 beats :(
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  9.  @mikecrapse5285  AMD may have the support on all chips, but at least from my cursory knowledge dating back to the 1000 series, there are very very few mainboards that support it. Again because it's more expensive (even if it is just the programming/support) for practically no gain on the suer side (also ECC memory is slower/more expensive)
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  10. Could. But that is before the time of ubuqious electric light. Do you want to fly around in something that steers more badly than a pregnant drunken cow with zero sight?
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  11. How? A stall is per definition, if I am right, wenn the plane drops due to being too slow. How can you be too slow and too fast at the same time?
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  12. But there it's both intentional and systematic. The GOP knows it's losing the age game, so they try everything to keep in power, prevent mail votes, making it harder to vote for people who more likely vote Democrats - and putting in a lot of voting computers that can be hacked so easily hacker clubs don't even see it as a challenge. Safety principle of "nobody is allowed to touch them, so nobody would put a USB stick into them!"
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  13. Number 4096 comes up, every programmer: EEEEWWWW!
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  14. "Flashes" can happen for a lot of reasons. It's very unlikely one on the ground was caused by cosmic radiation. One happening while welding is likely caused by the welding radiation.
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  15. Just don't use computer in elections. It's impossible to have a system that is both recountable and anonymous. (as long as you don't add on a lot of stuff, basically redoing the paper like in this video with magnet cards, making the whole point of using computers obsolete)
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  16.  @jubayerabdullahjoy2582  It's impossible with conventional computer(tech). As I wrote above, you can of course put on a mountain of complexity to get the same result as if you were using low tech paper that even your 100 year old grandma understands. (And understanding is of huge important in the voting process btw.) But why? Why introducing several layers of vulnerabilities and costs?
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  17. Only in very sloppy bank program,s because good programs would recognize this error in the double bookkeeping.
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