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EdNuttingtoday at 1:44 AM1 replyview on HN

Not a direct answer but probably as good information as you can get: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Basically, yes, radiation does cause bit flips, more often than you might expect (but still a rare event in the grand scheme of things, but enough to matter).

And radiation in space is much “worse” (in quotes because that word is glossing over a huge number of different problems, both just intensity).


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EdNuttingtoday at 8:47 AM

Typo: “both” ~ “not”