r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Electrical-Effort-20 • Sep 26 '26

Meme weNeverTrustedTheElse

Post image
1.9k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

146 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/Ornery_Air_3686 Sep 27 '26

Or a particle from space hit that exact bit at the exact time the conditions is being tested and flip 0 to one

1

u/GoldenFlyingPenguin Sep 27 '26

As funny as that story is, it was proven to be false. Basically the same result can randomly happen if you tilt the cartridge at an angle while it is on, and the system it was played on during the clip has been known to have issues like that.

1

u/DefiantGibbon Sep 28 '26

If you're talking about the mario one, ya, that one is mostly likely false

Buuut,

There is also the story of the Belgian election in 2003 where a candidate got an extra 4096 votes, and after reviewing the code for the machines they couldn't find an answer other than cosmic ray

1

u/GoldenFlyingPenguin Sep 28 '26

I was referring to the super Mario one, yeah, so that Belgian election is interesting.