On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on again - Keunwoo Lee's Minimum Viable Homepage
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Turn a misbehaving computer off and on, or stop a misbehaving program and then start it again. Often, the problem goes away.
On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on again 2022-03-27 From first principles Turn a misbehaving computer off and on, or stop a misbehaving program and then start it again. Often, the problem goes away. Most users don't think hard about this, and accept it as just another inscrutable fact about computers. However, as you learn more about how computers work, I suspect that you start feeling uncomfortable about never outgrowing this seemingly hacky and arbitrary fix. Professional engineers working for the most celebrated technology companies on Earth are som
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