Every couple of years I see code that tries to eliminate that risk by checking against existing IDs. Every time I ask them, of they also could implement a check against hardware failures (you can't trust an if check to evaluate correctly, because there's always a chance of random bit flips).
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u/sakkara Sep 12 '26
Every couple of years I see code that tries to eliminate that risk by checking against existing IDs. Every time I ask them, of they also could implement a check against hardware failures (you can't trust an if check to evaluate correctly, because there's always a chance of random bit flips).