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

submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

God damn, whoever came up with that is clever. I would have never come up with that on my own.

[-] acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Some security camera systems have this built in. They show snapshots of various times where you choose the total period, say 24 hours. Then you glance through the snapshots that are all displayed at once on the screen and click on the last one where your bike was still there. That will then “zoom in” the timeline and show another set of snapshots, though this time within a smaller total time window. Keep clicking on the last panel with the bike, and it will soon show you the clip of the bike being stolen.

Really helpful to find out when something changed.