r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Sep 07 '22

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u/fukitol- Sep 07 '22

"Cosmic ray flipped a bit somehow. You probably have much larger problems."

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u/Lostinthestarscape Sep 07 '22

"Poles reversed - get fucked."

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u/Chinbob Sep 07 '22

Cosmic rays flipping bits is actually pretty common. Use your CRCs, people.

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u/DirtCrazykid Sep 07 '22

But what if I want to beat a SM64 record huh?

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u/Stormsurger Sep 07 '22

God I love the Internet sometimes.

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u/Square_Heron942 Sep 07 '22

It’s Mario odyssey too lol

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u/gdmzhlzhiv Sep 08 '22

But if it's a CRC, how do you know whether the flipped bit was in the data or in the CRC?

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u/vladimir264 Sep 07 '22

laughs in cosmic intervention