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On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on again
<time datetime="2022-05-25 12:24:00 &#43;0200 &#43;0200">25 May 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>61 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span>

On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on again

Getting back to a defined and known state is a great way to recover. I found the concept of ‘crash-only-software’ very interesting, and the described approach of inevitable improvement and resilience from software that rather crashes than being in an unknown state. If it keeps crashing and you depend on it, you will get to understanding and fixing the issues quicker.