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?

[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

[apytele@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

It had a story?

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

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

[olafurp@lemmy.world]

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.