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Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police (startrek.website)
submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 61 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It would have taken 5 minutes at most

[–] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 11 months ago

My Graphics card/ssd wouldn't be able to handle the skipping of such big files

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 10 points 11 months ago

Yeah, even if it was from the beginning of dawn. No need to check out tape before the guy parked his bike.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

But thats 5 minutes of killin' time they'll never get back

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

On my site's security nvr, it takes five minutes just to convince it that you want to search a particular camera