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by Supermancho 960 days ago
> Also, you can definitely stop cosmic rays

As I understand it, bit flipping in RAM is mitigated by error correction, via auxilliary and redundant bits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_random-access_memory#R...

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ECC RAM is for the most part relegated to server-grade components, for what it's worth. So your phone, your laptop, your router? Almost certainly not using any ECC RAM, unless you've gone out of your way to do so.