Yea, that's pretty much why turning it a machine off and on again works.
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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.
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No, sometimes the answer is just turn it off.
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.
Under the same logic, All problems are also caused by turning it off and on again.
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!
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.)
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.
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?'
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
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