• surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    An economist is walking down the street and sees a $20 bill. He doesn’t pick it up because, if it was a really $20 bill, someone would’ve picked it up already.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Or did someone do this and just not share it with the internet in a way that it could ever be found?

    I swear the most frustrating problems I deal with at work are ones where I know someone else has dealt with this shit before, but there’s just no information out there.

    I try to do my part through some other usernames, but it can also be tough to not get too specific with things and out yourself. Also, right now most of my issues are time limited, relating to Exchange Server 2019 losing support on the 14th. So by the time it’ll be safe for me to talk about how I solved certain issues, it’ll be too late to help people unless they are disasterously out of date.

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      My most hated thing is when I have a computer problem, I search for it, I find a thread from someone with the exact same problem as me, and it ends with them saying “nm I fixed it.”

      TELL ME WHAT YOU DID

    • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      It’s even more fun when that someone is you and you have no useful recollection of the ordeal.

      • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        The number of times I’ve spent hours trying to figure out some obscure issue only to stumble upon a multiple-years-old stackoverflow post of myself asking the same question isn’t that high, but definitely higher than I’d like to admit.

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I started keeping an informal “changelog” for my PC, because I was burnt out on reinstalling my OS every few months. I can be a bit patchy at actually updating it, but when I do, it’s so refreshing to ask “why the hell did I install $software ?” and then to check my logs and find that I installed it while trying to solve $problem, but that it didn’t work and I ended up solving the problem a different way, but forgot to remove $software. It’s so nice to not be scared of breaking stuff when I’ve forgotten why I did things a certain way.

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.caEnglish
    26·
    3 days ago

    This feels very adjacent to “we don’t do this because it was easy. We did it because we thought it would be easy.”