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?

[openstars@piefed.social]

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

[senseless@feddit.org]

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@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta

[thepyropython@lemmy.world]

[sylver_dragon@lemmy.world]

This is only true for quantum computers.

[goodeye8@lemm.ee]

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.

[lordnikon@lemmy.world]

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.

[bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net]

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

It’s all just a bunch of rythm dancing

[underpantsweevil@lemmy.world]

Studied computer science. The answer is yes.

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

[cilethesane@lemmy.ca]

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.)

[cilethesane@lemmy.ca]

It's all just a bunch of rythm dancing of switches going off and on.

I want this rhythm game now.

[cilethesane@lemmy.ca]

A million years ago some asshole fish decided to crawl on land and now I have to deal with IT problems.

[slackassassin@sh.itjust.works]

Ya. It's more like "current go this way or current go that way" than it is high/low voltages.

[tranquilturbulence@lemmy.zip]

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.

[diva@lemmy.ml]

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

[tranquilturbulence@lemmy.zip]

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.

[allyoursmurf@lemmy.world]

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.

[klear@lemmy.world]

Advanced speedrun strats.

[klear@lemmy.world]

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

Or by moving to Canada.

[shadow@lemmy.sdf.org]

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