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@dragonarchitect @SwiftOnSecurity I've done FPGA development, so I can tell you from experience (understanding a bit about how chips work internally) that yeah, sometimes you've got to power cycle to properly reset state. There's a lot of complicated shit inside there and sometimes there's bugs, either in silicon, firmware, or software. Gotta do what you gotta do! 4 comments
@dragonarchitect @SwiftOnSecurity Yep. There's a reason it's a joke as old at time (though made famous by IT Crowd). :P @dragonarchitect @SwiftOnSecurity Basically, everything is a state machine, and you just have to reset state sometimes. (Especially when your computer or other electronics are made of, let's say, hundreds of thousands of them all tied together.) @dragonarchitect @SwiftOnSecurity See also: The need to sleep, which does a lot of things, but also this for (parts of) your brain. :P |
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@zetasyanthis @SwiftOnSecurity Soft errors can and do happen with enough frequency that a full power cycle is pretty much always the standard first step. That and "Did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in again?"
Legit I fixed comms to a power distribution cabinet in a data center on Friday by just unplugging the network cable in the top and plugging it back in. Bad electrical contact prevented the WHOLE thing showing up on EPMS.