Since bits are ones and zeroes, and also mean true/false and on/off by extension, doesn't that mean all solutions to IT problems are just turning something off and on again at some level?

Midnight Wolf

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Midnight Wolf

the right thing

Hospital IT: yes I hear you are having trouble with your TV not working, let me just grabs ventilator plug

Patient: flailing

IT: relax, I know what I'm doing

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Thx now I have Need for Speed Underground in my mind

Midnight Wolf

Turn the DNS off and on again, too

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But computer solve problems you wouldn't have without them.

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It's why I say as a software engineer: computers were a mistake.

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Sometimes the fix is to turn it off, take it out back and beat it with a stick.

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No, that's the whole misconception here. cycling a switch means returning to the previous state. Turning it off and on again means going from ON -> OFF -> ON. Software problems are solved by going from one state to a different state.

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I got a killa up inside of me

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Watching the IT crowd for the 1st time with the wife. So, so funny.

OpenStars

It might be the best show in the universe. Or maybe not, but either way it's funny as hell .

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Until some stray gamma ray hits just the right spot, flips a byte and either nothing at all of everything all at once happens.

y0kai

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta

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sylver_dragon

This is only true for quantum computers.

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Maybe I'm misremembering (or it's just old knowledge and new chips are more sophisticated) but despite it being low voltage vs high voltage the outcome is still on or off because there's a resistor in the semiconductor that either allows current through or not. If it were a light switch it would be the equivalent of turning the light on or off.

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I come from the net. Through systems, peoples and cities to this place: Mainframe. My format: Guardian; to mend and defend. To defend my new-found friends, their hopes and dreams. To defend them from their enemies. They say the user lives outside the net and inputs games for pleasure. No one knows for sure, but I intend to find out.

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We need a cells at work type of anime but about computers.

It’s all just a bunch of rythm dancing

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Studied computer science. The answer is yes.

NP = P, folks. Pack it up and go home.

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Turning it off and on again is a universal truth. A defibrillator works by turning the heart off then on again.

(You don't defib a patient who is flat lining. You defib to fix an erratic heart beat.)