HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoWhen I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read.message-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down16
arrow-up169arrow-down1message-squareWhen I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read.HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squarenjm1314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days agoHow would you know you can find the answer there if you hadn’t already read it and therefore know the answer?
minus-squareCrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·15 days agoMaybe they once read the thing and got an answer, but now they forget what the specific answer was. This happens to me often with technical documentation or history books.
minus-squareHobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·15 days agoThis is it exactly. I know it is there, but I’m hazy on what it was exactly and it needs to be 100% right.
minus-squaresilly goose meekah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·15 days agoI’m sure where I can find the conversion rate between Celsius and Fahrenheit, but I’ll never remember it
How would you know you can find the answer there if you hadn’t already read it and therefore know the answer?
Maybe they once read the thing and got an answer, but now they forget what the specific answer was.
This happens to me often with technical documentation or history books.
This is it exactly. I know it is there, but I’m hazy on what it was exactly and it needs to be 100% right.
I’m sure where I can find the conversion rate between Celsius and Fahrenheit, but I’ll never remember it