Rowhammer, cosmic bitflip or hardware or just compiler bugs come to mind.

kqr 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The first three are hardware failures, not software failures. The latter would be a design error, not a failure.

The software may need to handle hardware failures, but software that doesn't do that also doesn't fail -- it's inadequately designed.

teddyh 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

None of those are something that you as a programmer should ever worry about.

	▲	BoppreH 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Counterpoint, I have definitely taken them into consideration when designing my backup script. It's the reason why I hash my files before transferring, after transferring, and at periodic intervals. And if you're designing a Hardware Security Module, as another example, I hope that you've taken at least rowhammer into consideration.
	▲	AlotOfReading 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I consider these all the time as a programmer. Particularly compiler/toolchain bugs, which are relatively common once you start looking for them.