Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day agoSince 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?message-squaremessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up1452arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1434arrow-down1message-squareSince 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 to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square73fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAllYourSmurf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 hours agoA 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.
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.