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Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police (startrek.website)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Eh, it's less intuitive than you might think, as someone who already knows how to do it.

I once had to explain this process to a software engineer who was quite senior to me. The guy wasn't any idiot, he was a pretty competent engineer, he just didn't know this trick.

The cops might even already know how to do it, they just don't want to, because they're cops.