Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok but the text that you replied to, that you quoted, was “If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.” Emphasis mine. If you’d started out saying “there’s ALWAYS a visual cue,” then you likely wouldn’t be getting dragged, but you started out arguing from this position without clarifying it, which makes it seem like you didn’t know what you were talking about.

  Last time I checked, I’m allow to disagree with a comment someone made, and argue the opposite. Just because they say ‘no visual cue’ does not mean that is no visual cue.

  You can’t say that you can simply look for visual cues when the other person specified that there were none.

  Yes I can. Of course I can (unless you’re advocating I’m not allowed to disagree and argue that point).

  Its called “disagreeing” with what the other person is speaking of. Its a discussion.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just because they say ‘no visual cue’ does not mean that is no visual cue.

    It literally, explicitly does, because they are talking about a hypothetical situation where no visual cues are left. If no visual cues are left, then there are no visual cues to see. It’s like if I talk about a hypothetical purple elephant. Elephants aren’t purple, and as far as I’m aware there have never been any purple elephants, but the hypothetical elephant that I’m talking about is purple, because that’s how I defined it.

    Why, because you say so? Yes, I can. Of course I can.

    Okay. I should have been extremely specific. You cannot rightly and correctly say that there are visual cues that could be found when the other person explicitly says that there are no visual cues to be found, because in the hypothetical situation that they’ve brought up, there would be no visual cues to find, and so while you are physically capable of stating the phrase “just look for the visual cues,” you are incorrect in the assumption that there would be visual cues to find.

    When somebody says “you can’t say” followed by a statement that’s incorrect, they aren’t trying to tell you that you are physically incapable of saying that statement; rather, there is an implicit “correctly” or “honestly” between the “can’t” and “say.”

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      because they are talking about a hypothetical situation where no visual cues are left.

      No, I am not. I’m disagreeing with that, and my comments are stating as much. I’m allowed to disagree with what someone is saying.

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