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[–] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I work with fixing specialised software and hardware.

I belive that there is truth to the Tom Knight and the Lisp machine koan. Several times per year I bill customers for doing this.

If you've not heard it before: 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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