On 2021-01-16 10:33 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
This is something I quite agree with. I gave up complaining about 20 years ago but would welcome a change:
<https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/linus-torvalds-blames-intel-for-lack-of-ecc-ram-in-consumer-pcs/> <https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpostid=198647> ---
Letting a cost accountant into the building is often a business risk (;-)) A disgusted tech support person said "Whenever our app fails, we run a checksum of it, and usually end up telling the customer to delete it and reinstall". I remember when ZFS shipped, and customers were discovering bit-rot because it checksummed /everything/. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain