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?

[get_off_my_wlan@fedia.io]

Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[l0rdmathias@sh.itjust.works]

In theory. In reality it's not on or off it's always on and it's high vs low voltage.

[godnroc@lemmy.world]

Ah, so the answer is just to get high!

[kubica@fedia.io]

That's in short what digital means.

[foggy@lemmy.world]

Orrrr get low

To the windowwwwwww...

I'm old

[openstars@piefed.social]

Mostly, though there's also fire-fighting too.

[vinnymac@lemmy.world]

And yet I still have electronics to this day that require me to pull the plug to get going again

[shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip]

To the wall

[shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip]

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@fedia.io]

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.

[officermike@lemmy.world]

At a Sea Parks‽

[gressen@lemm.ee]

Upvote for username

[zier@fedia.io]

yes, and no.

[timlovestech@badatbeing.social]

I thought it was always DNS? 🫣

[oleorun@real.lemmy.fan]

Till the sweat drip down my balls

[cyborganism@lemmy.ca]

Ooof. That's deep.

[givesomefucks@lemmy.world]

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.

[tacosanonymous@lemm.ee]

I don’t want to talk about it.

[shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip]

All these bitches crawl.

[zaphod@sopuli.xyz]

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.