@danluu enjoyed your blog post "files are dangerous". The statistics on hard-drive write failures alarmed me, but also were at odds with my empirical experience - I don't think I've had an unexplicable data corruption problem ever and I've been doing computers for 25y+
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I haven’t observed it. I’d expect something break spectacularly if say a signed binary would become corrupted or my documents would stop working. Maybe computers don’t do as many writes ?
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Surprising to me is how rare discussion of the general version of the problem is - some retained state becomes wrong due to corruption or a bug in a previous code version; active reconciliation against sources of truth is required for these stateful systems, files or whatever.
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It comes up in CQRS with conflicting and compensating events i.e.
@jessitron mentions it herehttps://blog.jessitron.com/2020/01/24/capturing-the-world-in-software/ … - 1 more reply
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