Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not trolling, and I stand by what I said.

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  • null@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And to recap, what you said is:

    If an event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue, you will see that event happen using a binary search.

    Which is, of course, false.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And to recap, what you said is:

      If an event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue, you will see that event happen using a binary search.

      Which is, of course, false.

      It’s not false if the event changes the environment around it, which was my point.

      You incorrectly assuming a completely clean and static event that does not affect anything around it afterwards, and in the real world that’s just not usually the case.

      And for the record, I never said it works 100% of the time.

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      • null@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s not false if the event changes the environment around it, which was my point.

        No it wasn’t. That’s neither implied nor explicitly stated in your initial reply.

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