Turn It Off and On Again

Definitions

1. The classic first troubleshooting move of restarting a thing to clear transient bad state. In engineering slang, the phrase is half joke and half acknowledgment that resets really do fix many problems.

   In plain English: A common troubleshooting step: restart it and see if that clears the problem.

   Example: "It sounded silly, but turning it off and on again cleared the stuck worker state faster than another hour of speculative debugging."

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