LaurieWired(@lauriewired):Some of you are already prepped for this by the way. DOE HPC people are really good at this (to the point of purposefully irradiating Nvidia GPUs to quantify the error rates)! If you’re a veeery old school programmer, you’re in better shape as well; computers used to not be so reliable! Alan Turing famously told programers to “check that sin²θ + cos²θ ≈ 1” every once in a while on the Ferranti Mark I because it was so flaky!

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2026.09.12 16:21

Some of you are already prepped for this by the way. DOE HPC people are really good at this (to the point of purposefully irradiating Nvidia GPUs to quantify the error rates)! If you’re a veeery old school programmer, you’re in better shape as well; computers used to not be so reliable! Alan Turing famously told programers to “check that sin²θ + cos²θ ≈ 1” every once in a while on the Ferranti Mark I because it was so flaky!