kimsj@mastodon.social (@kimsj@mastodon.social)
Born at 314ppm CO2. Escapee from Twitter, and now from home.social too. 🫤 Tofu-loving woke ex EU citizen. Retired hi-tech entrepreneur, once focused on future cities/buildings, climate & UBI, now keen on saving the planet and democracy. I dream of the day when I can return my focus to my first loves.
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In the early days of personal computing CPU bugs were so rare as to be newsworthy.
Senza categoria@gabrielesvelto
There’s also meta-stability. If a value is snapshotted half way through it changing, it may occasionally result in the output not being one or zero, but some ‘half’ value. Depending on the circuits using that result, it may be interpreted as either 1 or 0 — and maybe different parts of the circuit will use different interpretations. Such intermediate states are only meta-stable, and will flip to a firm 1 or 0 at some indeterminate time later, possibly propagating the problem.