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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I work in the software industry and I have a guess regarding what the might do to “fix” the problem.

    First, we look for the cause, but in this case it is external: we can’t prevent solar flares. So we will turn to mitigation instead:

    Data gets flaky and erratic unter radiation, so what we would do is to double- and triple-check the data bits. By adding more levels of data correction, more bits can be wrong and we can still figure what it was supposed to be.

    Adding more corrections means more overhead and slower performance, but it can still be made to work within the given constraints of real-time processing. They will need to find a balance between hardening and usefulness.



  • No offense, but this question is what is holding many people back that would otherwise be on the fence or ready to go.

    If there were just Mac / Windows / Linux, it would be an easy sell.

    But we have Mac / Windows / two million Linux flavors.

    It does not matter which one you pick, it is bound to cause questions or issues. And once you’ve chosen a Linux flavor, someone asks you why you chose that desktop and not foobar9000 instead which everyone knows runs much better on your Linux flavor anyway.

    I honestly think that Linux’ biggest enemy is Linux. Sure, choice is good, but this is too much. Way too much.