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Computers today have many GB of RAM, and programs that use it.

The more RAM you have, the higher the probabilty that there will be some bad bits. And the more RAM a program uses, the more likely it will be using some that is bad.

Same phenomenon with huge hard drives.

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And most the time a bit flips it means that there's a wonky pixel somewhere in a photo, texture or video that you'd never even notice.

A bit flip actually needs to be pretty "lucky" to result in a crash.




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