The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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ECC is a by product of atmospheric radiation (this is a memory thing).

It basically came about on the back of an election counting precisely 4096 too many votes.  They discovered that bit flipped from 0 to a 1.

Yes, nanometre or smaller sized semiconductor devices and cosmic rays do not mix, so the much older micron scale silicon hardware turns out to be more reliable.

Many people do not realise it, but some of the old Apollo era electronic circuits were partly made of large scale woven materials, some of it hand knitted by artisans and forming part of the crafts panels and linings. They did this partly because they feared that radiation of space would destroy small  scale components. Weird isn't it, now flexible electronics is a frontier, life is like a merry-go-round!