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parity errors
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parity errors /pl.n./ Little lapses of attention or (in more
severe cases) consciousness, usually brought on by having spent all
night and most of the next day hacking. "I need to go home and
crash; I'm starting to get a lot of parity errors." Derives from
a relatively common but nearly always correctable transient error
in RAM hardware. Parity errors can also afflict mass storage and
serial communication lines; this is more serious because not always
correctable.
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