A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5
I have lga 1356 xeon 2470v2 with 64gb ddr3 ecc ram, cheap and good setup
You enthusiasts server people, the dozens of you, are not the average consumer.
Who is talking about average consumers? We’re not trying to market something here.
Linus was. The answer is Linus. 🤦♂️ Jesus Christ guys. Two of you.
Yes and? Us here are talking over a federated social platform. None of us are the average consumer.