frankreyes
Joined 5 years ago
Joined 5 years ago
Not true. My mother got a free credit card that she never used and never even took out of her safe box, and a few weeks ago someone used that card to buy a Microsoft gift card. Luckily for her, she regularly checks the bank's statements.
I'm convinced there's a workaround to buy stuff using just the numbers, because that's how cards used to work a few decades ago.
ECC is expensive just because Intel had a monopoly over the server segment, and unilaterally forced desktop not to use ECC.
Otherwise people would use desktop computers as servers, and that would reduce profits.
At work, my workstation Desktop computer has ECC. The colleague's sitting next to me has on their screen sometimes kernel warnings of ECC errors.
And cases of bit flips happen every day, that's why some problems are solved by just restarting your computer or the software. I'd argue that many times we blame software bugs on pure hardware bit flips.
Here's a story of a variable name bit flip: https://alexbakker.me/post/did-cosmic-rays-break-my-linux-bu...
Bit flips usually affect operating system stuff, here's another story: https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/attack-of-the-cosmic-ray...
Some industries require to be able to reproduce exact bit by bit data.
Anything that requires absolute bit certainty, for example digital signatures, encryption, or financial information, will require ECC.
If you don't care if your files eventually don't match a sha256 checksum, you'll be fine. for example source code, it doesn't matter because in the worst case, your code won't compile because variable names got flipped.
And even then, if you're using Git for source code control, you're already using hash signatures to detect data corruption, as well as a very large redundancy and replication. Git is, in a philosophical way, ECC by software.
It would be easier to just import it from the border, either Mexico or Canada.
That's the thinking of bureocrats who see the world in terms of rules and enforce, but fail to see the bigger picture that it's easier for everyone to just relax the rules.
Cover letters are literally a "cover" to a resume saying why are you sending that resume.
Today, that's just the subject of the email with the resume as attachment.
Today, cover letters provide no value to any involved party, and as you can see they can be easily played and manipulated. You're just adding more hoops to your own detriment.
That's what SR Hadden did in Contact ;) as always, Carl Sagan is still teaching us to this day