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intrasight 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

Months in my case. But I have ECC. Every five years I build a new development workstation and I always have ECC.

Izkata 4 months ago [–]

I can also go months and don't see crashes (though occasionally I'll hit a memory leak where closing tabs doesn't release it so I'll restart firefox then), but unless ThinkPads come with ECC I don't have it.

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