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?

[oleorun@real.lemmy.fan]

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.

[dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world]

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.

[raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world]

"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".

[bazoogle@lemmy.world]

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

[shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip]

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

[earphone843@sh.itjust.works]

That's actually why. You have to drain the power from the circuits.

[olafurp@lemmy.world]

Studied computer science. The answer is yes.

[get_off_my_wlan@fedia.io]

How dare you use logic on my computer logic-related shower thought.

But yeah, I get what you mean. I had that thought at some point after posting. This is why I should probably just keep it in this silly thread and not write any philosophy essays soon.

[serenissi@lemmy.world]

I've an oven which when turned off in hot state while in convection mode will turn on the fans for few minutes next time I turn it on, regardless of mode and temperature. To overcome this bug I need to put mains power off for couple of minutes and let the caps keeping the ram alive drain. Not only it has hot state reset but but also a ram initialization issue. Thankfully that state is not stored in nvram.

The manufacturer was as expected: 'we're not software guy, we can send an 'expert' engineer (who knows only to replace parts, no debugging) and it'll cost $$'. I thought I'll reverse it and fixing someday, till then I'll live with it.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

If you just stopped using your computer it wouldn’t crash.

[zorque@lemmy.world]

I mean, technically speaking, it's cycling all the switches. You use one main switch to simplify the process, but it controls all the other switches as well.

[wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world]

washing machine

overflow

heh 🫧

[wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world]

[ticket closed]

[wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world]

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

[atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Thx now I have Need for Speed Underground in my mind

[wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world]

Turn the DNS off and on again, too

[atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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

[peoplebeproblems@midwest.social]

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

[nandeebisu@lemmy.world]

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

[raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world]

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.