Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months agoI’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.
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Then you missed the point of this conversation
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You’re being intellectually dishonest, in attempts to kill the message.
WoahWoah@lemmy.world 10 months 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.”
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I keep saying what I’m responding to, but you’re trying to change the narrative of what I’m responding, to as a debate tactic.
Someone uses a debate tactic of mentioning an “one off” and then directing their whole conversation to that one singular point is not intellectually honest in the whole conversation being had.