an ancient belief: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141171
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.
RE: https://socially.drinkingatmy.computer/objects/b87e97f2-1e2a-4434-9e36-27c0b23242df
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