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0 pointssitkack5y ago0 comments

The fact that ECC isn't the default across everything is a failure of human cognition and Capitalism.

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I have always been angry that ECC was treated as an "enterprise" feature and increased the price way more than it should have.

buran775y ago

It's treated as enterprise because most regular users had no realistic reason to care about it. The practical consequences of not having this on your phone or home PC are completely invisible for the vast majority of people. Because of this and the fact that in the consumer space prices matter most the situation is quite expected.

behringer5y ago

Users most definitely want it. They just aren't technically literate enough to know about it.

Hello user, for an extra 10 dollars, would you like to guarantee that cosmic radiation never affects your computing experience, including having to reformat, reinstall, or otherwise reboot your phone/computer randomly when one day something just doesn't work anymore?

Was it an update? Was it cosmic radiation? Was it a bad capacitor? Who knows!

Why do you think so many problems are solved by rebooting? Sure 99 out of 100 might be software bugs, but the other 1 out of 100 is straight up cosmic radiation, and that 1 percent is growing more and more every year as software becomes more robust and bug free with better tooling.

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sneak5y ago

I feel this way about all software.

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