Basically there’s no proof
I watched this a while ago so I can’t remember everything, but I think essentially it boils down to someone having suggested the idea that it could have been a cosmic ray and the idea was propogated by memes and YouTubers as fact, even though there’s no proof and the odds of it being a cosmic ray are astronomically small, pun intended.
I think it was confirmed that a single bit flip could have produced that effect, but it’s a huge leap to say it must have been cosmic rays. It could just be a hardware fault.
Thanks, I just remember the Bounty and then later Veritasium also doing a video about cosmic rays. I remember the chances actually being surprisingly high, considering how much memory is actually used nowadays and wondering why it hasn’t happened much more in different systems. So I waved it off due to ECC etc. taking effect most of the time. This is certainly true, but I probably also got the numbers wrong. So I’m also gonna watch Veritasiums video again more critically now and do some research. It’s a very interesting topic for me.
Additional context for the title is that pannenkoek2012, pioneer of the A Button Challenge (ABC), put up a $1000 bounty for solving the Tick Tock Clock (TTC) upwarp, since techniques in gaining height is extremely valuable as we want to avoid pressing the A Button to jump. No one solved the TTC upwarp. However, solutions have been found for completing TTC without any A presses (0xA) so the TTC upwarp isn’t needed anymore.
Wait it wasn’t??
Do you have any followup in this?
Basically there’s no proof
I watched this a while ago so I can’t remember everything, but I think essentially it boils down to someone having suggested the idea that it could have been a cosmic ray and the idea was propogated by memes and YouTubers as fact, even though there’s no proof and the odds of it being a cosmic ray are astronomically small, pun intended.
I think it was confirmed that a single bit flip could have produced that effect, but it’s a huge leap to say it must have been cosmic rays. It could just be a hardware fault.
Thanks, I just remember the Bounty and then later Veritasium also doing a video about cosmic rays. I remember the chances actually being surprisingly high, considering how much memory is actually used nowadays and wondering why it hasn’t happened much more in different systems. So I waved it off due to ECC etc. taking effect most of the time. This is certainly true, but I probably also got the numbers wrong. So I’m also gonna watch Veritasiums video again more critically now and do some research. It’s a very interesting topic for me.
I want to belieeeve
It’s basically what @GandalftheBlack@feddit.org commented.
Additional context for the title is that pannenkoek2012, pioneer of the A Button Challenge (ABC), put up a $1000 bounty for solving the Tick Tock Clock (TTC) upwarp, since techniques in gaining height is extremely valuable as we want to avoid pressing the A Button to jump. No one solved the TTC upwarp. However, solutions have been found for completing TTC without any A presses (0xA) so the TTC upwarp isn’t needed anymore.
The 0xA video is insane btw: https://youtu.be/98EpPsaAF_k
And here are all the steps to do in order to do it! https://imgur.com/ZlnIgvw
ping me when somebody elaborates pls
Ping
thanks
GandalftheBlack posted a good reply, check it out
thanks, appreciate it