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> the teacher says “we fix things by "switching them off and on again"” as if that’s a bad thing TBH, as an electronics engineer and computer scientist it's
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> the teacher says “we fix things by "switching them off and on again"”
as if that’s a bad thing
TBH, as an electronics engineer and computer scientist it's the first
thing I do too :) I think my point in that article was that we
shouldn't teach that it's the _only_ recourse, and after if it still
doesn't work then just replace it.
It's still one step better than the wisdom of my Grandmother's
generation:
"If it doesn't work bang it once on the top. If it still doesn't work
bang it hard on the side twice. If it still doesn't work, call a man."
- starkd 4y agoThe banging fix was also useful for getting better reception on the tv set. Surprising how often it actually worked!
- Damogran6 4y agoChip creep was the behavior for chips to walk out of their packages due to temperature cycling, percussive maintenance helped reseat things, sometimes enough to make them work again. (The Apple III was a beneficiary https://www.techjunkie.com/apple-iii-drop/ https://www.techjunkie.com/apple-iii-drop/ )
- QuercusMax 4y agoMy dad always talked about lifting the front edge of a component up 2 inches and then letting it drop - he called it the "2-inch test". He said that either it would reseat whatever was flaky, or make it super obvious that it needed to be reseated.