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?
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?
Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?
In theory. In reality it's not on or off it's always on and it's high vs low voltage.
Ah, so the answer is just to get high!
And yet I still have electronics to this day that require me to pull the plug to get going again 😂
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.
Ya. It's more like "current go this way or current go that way" than it is high/low voltages.
Studied computer science. The answer is yes.
A computer is a funky thingy that's a jumbled city of stuff turning on and off with the one master on/off thingy which is the clock on the processor.
When it switches from negative to positive a lot of small switches everywhere switch, some stay the same, some flip. It's all just a bunch of rythm dancing of switches going off and on.
Until some stray gamma ray hits just the right spot, flips a bit and either nothing at all of everything all at once happens.
Advanced speedrun strats.
Studied computer science. The answer is yes.
NP = P, folks. Pack it up and go home.
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.
It would be considerably slower, it's also possible to make pneumatic logic gates
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.
We need a cells at work type of anime but about computers.
It’s all just a bunch of rythm dancing
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.
It's all just a bunch of rythm dancing of switches going off and on.
I want this rhythm game now.
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.)
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.
I believe there is also a medical treatment that consists of wiping out your white blood cells entirely so your body has to make new ones.
"Have you tried turning the immune system off then on again?'
Our University is a cosmic machine that has been running for billions of years, and as an IT guy reboots a computer when it's been running for too long and has problems, will inevitably implode on itself and tear itself apart, which is the equivalent of God turning it off and on again.
Mostly, though there's also fire-fighting too.
At a Sea Parks‽
I don’t want to talk about it.
Watching the IT crowd for the 1st time with the wife. So, so funny.
It might be the best show in the universe. Or maybe not, but either way it's funny as hell 🤣.
That would also mean that all IT problems are caused by turning something off and on again at some level.
You're... you're right.
It's like, all part of some yin-yang thing.
Under the same logic, All problems are also caused by turning it off and on again.
Sometimes the fix is to turn it off, take it out back and beat it with a stick.
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
I got a killa up inside of me
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.
One token ring to crash them all!
Go bigger than IT problems.
Most desk jobs are simply finding information: a suitable combination of 1s and 0s until someone else agrees that the combination is correct.
Then, as a reward, the business slightly changes the 1s and 0s of my bank account.
It’s 1s and 0s all the way down.
yes, and no.
This is only true for quantum computers.
😂
Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine
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.
Source: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html Section IIIA
"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".
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.
:P :)
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.
Upvote for username :)
I thought it was always DNS? 🫣
Turn the DNS off and on again, too
That's in short what digital means.
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.
Indeed, I got corrected.
I wasn't expecting to see a reference to one of my favorite anime of all time. Thank you for reminding me why it's peak.
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.
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
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.
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
And nobody will ever need more than 128 kilobytes of RAM.
Yea, that's pretty much why turning it a machine off and on again works.