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

submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I dunno. "Don't attribute to malice that which can be sufficiently explained by stupidity." I can totally believe that the average police officer has not thought this through. "5 hours of footage! We don't have 5 hours to look for one bike."

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago

“Don’t attribute to malice that which can be sufficiently explained by stupidity.”