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?

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If you used mechanical switches, would it be possible to build a large version of some modern semiconductor chip? If so, I would expect that contraption to be slower and louder than the original.

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It would be considerably slower, it's also possible to make pneumatic logic gate

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This is pretty cool. I don't care how slow it is. It just shows that that it can be done. If you want something useful, use silicon. If you want something awesome, use creative alternatives like pneumatic pipes and valves.

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A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.

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Advanced speedrun strats.

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Software problems are solved by going from one state to a different state.

Or by moving to Canada.

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Man I loved that game. I didn't even play the story much. It's was just a fun drive around game

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ECT basically does that too but for brains. Too sad and Prozac isn't fixing it? We're gonna put you under and slap the reset button every other day until you're not. Shit works too its fucking wild.

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It had a story?

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Under the same logic, All problems are also caused by turning it off and on again.

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If you're willing to sacrifice the clock speed it's possible. One of the issues will be that the insane amount of logic gates would have to propagate through every cycle which happens stupid fast on modern chips. Still possible to model it and do a timelapse.

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I believe there is also a medical treatment that consists of wiping out your white blood cells entirely so your body has to make new ones.

"Have you tried turning the immune system off then on again?'

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Go bigger than IT problems.

Most desk jobs are simply finding information: a suitable combination of 1s and 0s until someone else agrees that the combination is correct.

Then, as a reward, the business slightly changes the 1s and 0s of my bank account.

It’s 1s and 0s all the way down.

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One token ring to crash them all!