mastodon 4.7.3I type, I drink, I sleep. Rinse and repeat.
Go developer at HAProxy Technologies. Opinions are usually my own.
I like: traveling, history, medievalism, chocolate, programming, plan9, unix, retrocomputing, and most of all procrastination.
Am I the only one here who still cares about Bull computers and GCOS?
And yet kids on reddit will insist ECC is useless 🤡
But the real tragedy here is that RAM manufacturers sell huge amounts of faulty RAM. This old study from Google estimates that about 8% of RAM sticks have defects. https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
> Olivier.SysAdmin logged out 01/30/26 1519.7 cet Fri
> CPU usage 22 sec, memory usage 74.8 units, cost $186.49.
> hangup
> Multics has disconnected you
That thing is not cheap 😬