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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Aaaaaaagh, why cant you talk this way to people?! Life would be so much easier! Why didnt the argument go down well?! Is the cop stupid?! Binary search works! The guy was correct! God damnit, why must people be so unaccommodating, even when proven their accommodation would not take long?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

When I read this originally, it was a nice example how programmer brain can be applied IRL. Also works when trying to find something and I see the listing is someway sorted, like time tables and eshop product categories.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

The cops don't like when you point out how intelligent they are (or aren't really)?

I am shocked

/s

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Story time: I'm in Taiwan and I have a white female friend who is here for college.

She went on a "date" with someone she met on an app and they met at some coffee shop. The dude turned out to be SUPER creepy and she cut the date short and left. The dude proceeds to online stalk her for months. She barely speaks Chinese and was scared to go to the police due to the language barrier and the stalking was all online. Also she doesn't know the guy's name and he had since deleted his profile from the dating app.

My wife and I convinced her to go to the police. She left with some print outs of the stalking emails and DMs just to file a report, not expecting much.

The police tried their hardest to communicate with her and spent the next 4 hours helping her. They found the guy using traffic light footage on the day of the date and was able to use CCTV footage and using his metro card at the subway. Within the day, they found him, visited him and gave him a warning.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, did that warning stop him?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

Ya, it was pretty instant.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

In electronics testing, it's called the half split method. Not getting the correct voltage. Halfway through the circuit. Go back halfway. If you are reading the correct voltage, go forward halfway.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

it could take 5 minutes, sure, but it's still 5 minutes of work and that's not why we signed up for the job. so unless you give us the exact minute the bike was stolen we can't help you. if you do, we probably still won't help you. call us if you have some dark-skinned people to shoot, but otherwise stop bothering us.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Cops are only useful if you need someone to get to the scene two hours late, and then shoot your dog.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Police are so f***ing worthless and useless

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

Expecting feral hogs to be capable of reason was a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

I remember marveling at how simple and obvious binary search was when I first learned about it in programming.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

He was never interested in finding the bike, he just wanted to "take notes" and go back to his donuts.

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