Comment on The probability of losing your life to a cosmic ray bit-flip is increasing daily

AndOfTheSevenSeas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Vladkar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you’re a fallacious gambler, maybe.

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• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The probability of rolling a six is 1/6 no matter what numbers were rolled previously. Unless I’m misunderstanding your point

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  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unless you start adding extra mass to one side, ie adding more things to your life that this could happen to.

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  • AndOfTheSevenSeas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If we were discussing dice, yes.

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    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We are discussing independent probabilistic events, at least that was my understanding.

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      • AndOfTheSevenSeas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There is timer on this probability and as one approaches zero time remaining the greater the probability of the event.

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• Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  statistics are statistics I should have clarified this in the post; i had electric cars and scooters(record breaking sales where i live) in mind when i originally had the thought

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Regarding electric scooters, I’m not really sure what bits there are to be flipped, which could cause issues. My understanding is that when you hit the brakes for example, that electrical signal is sent directly to the brakes, and there’s not a digital buffer of inputs which are stored to memory to be read, which is where a bit flip could happen. I assume braking and acceleration are analog voltages on the wire, so a brief cosmic ray would be miniscule and probably not noticeable.

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Perhaps there is regenerative braking. Harder braking requires activation of disc brakes. If the battery is too full to safely dump energy into, disk brakes would be needed. All of which requires some amount of sensors and logic procrssing.

      But, all that is moot. Bit flips are known about, any decent system with life critical aspects will be designed with this in mind.
      Its the cheap shit ya gotta worry about

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  • Aatube@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like bamboo said; electric scooters aren't digital

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• Amir@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Since the set of all remaining time only shrinks, the possibility of anything ever happening at least once in all time should also shrink unless it already happened.

  And things happening at a rate per second doesn’t mean it increases either if it hasn’t happened yet. The probability of me being eaten by a dinosaur today is definitely not higher compared to being eaten by a dinosaur yesterday.

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  • AndOfTheSevenSeas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its truly inspiring how you wrote a paragraph to encompass a single sentence. I can’t thank you enough you enough for your useful drivel.

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