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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To the wall

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Until quantum comes around for everybody because then it can be zero or one at the same time. And you don't know until you observe it.

bluGill

Turning the right thing off and on again is the key. When you only have one router and a handful of other things like most have at home this isn't a big deal. When you have millions of things it can take weeks just to find the right thing in the mess.

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Zier

yes, and no.

TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)

I thought it was always DNS? 🫣

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Till the sweat drip down my balls

Cyborganism

Ooof. That's deep.

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Not really.

Quantum computing is about literally solving it exponentially faster.

Think of it like brute forcing a password.

Binary it can change one character and it has to go thru all of them.

Actual quantum computing goes down multiple paths at once, so the bigger the password the more gain there is from quantum. It doesn't have to actually try every single possible combination.

It's not just going from 2 to 3 states, because that third state is quantum superposition and by no means just a 50% increase. That superposition is how it goes down multiple "paths" at once.

But the observer effect isn't coming into play.

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I don’t want to talk about it.

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All these bitches crawl.

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Digital means that it's discrete compared to analog which is continuous. Some of the first digital computers were decimal, but in general binary is simpler to use so that's why it's everywhere.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown

That would also mean that all IT problems are caused by turning something off and on again at some level.

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Tachikoma - in analog that's God, digital that's Zero

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Our LG washing machine does this once every year and a half almost like clockwork. It will simply refuse to do anything until it is unplugged and then plugged back in.

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It may be clockwork. If its power hasn't been interrupted in the interim, i.e. you have very stable power at your house, that's got to be some kind of overflow bug in its software. A timer somewhere is running out of room to count clock ticks and it barfs.

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"Since words can be represented in binary, thus as a sequence of ones and zeroes, [..], doesn't that mean that all questions can be answered by saying no, then yes again at some level?"

How has no one pointed out yet that this is conceptually wrong? Turning something off & on again is cycling the same switch. Solutions to IT problems are setting different bits, which is binary for "using different words".

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Quantum computing will never come around for everyone. It's entirely different technology, and what we have works quite well for what we need. A good analogy from this Cleo Abrams video is it would be like saying we no longer need cars because we invented boats

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And nobody will ever need more than 128 kilobytes of RAM.