Gabriele Svelto (@gabrielesvelto@mas.to)
mas.to
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
  • Retail4068@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, and was Linus saying this should only apply to enthusiasts? I know, it’s hard to keep track of the thread.

      • Retail4068@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Nah, fuck you and your inability to follow a thread 🤣

        Moron. I replied to a specific and scooped component idiot. Linus literally said default you schmuck.