Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m a computer programmer. I know exactly what a binary search is.

  The search is to get you to the point where you can watch the video to see the crime happening, in hopes of indentifying the perpretrator.

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  • SkippingRelax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then you missed the point of this conversation

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Then you missed the point of this conversation

      You’re being intellectually dishonest, in attempts to kill the message.

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      • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, but, as you noted in an earlier post, that isn’t what you’re responding to. The point of the post you stated you are responding to is that if an event occurs that leaves no change to the context from before and after the occurrence, then binary search is ineffective.

        The fact that you’re wasting this much time trying to defend such a simple error is confusing. The reasonable response is, “oh, yes, in that particular case, binary search is ineffective.”

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