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Comment by worldsavior

12 hours ago

Off topic, but say you have a program that needs to calculate something but takes a long long time, how to counter hardware failure without needing to calculate everything from the start?

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tyromaniac  10 hours ago

Typically you use redundant computations, which don't have to be done from the start. You could calculate intermediate values and check them before proceeding

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