That depends on how often you use it. If I needed to write quicksort as often as the quadratic formula, I’d probably remember it. And if I only used the quadratic formula as often as I do quicksort, I’d just derive it each time.
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You don’t need to memorize quicksort. If you understand how it works, it’s trivial to work out the exact details.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you shit your pants, do you keep going with your day or is your day over?English
9·8 months agoI am worried by how many people in this thread shit their pants often enough to be able to answer the question.
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Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?English
31·8 months agoDon’t most terminals flush the buffer on newline anyway?
I also have Ahinsa shoes and they’re great.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blockingEnglish
21·8 months agoCreators who care about privacy should not support Google’s monopoly by using YouTube as their platform of choice.
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OpenStreetMap community@lemmy.ml•Mapy.cz gradually transitioning to Mapy.comEnglish
5·8 months agoBe aware that Mapy is made by Seznam, which is basically the Czech equivalent of Google, including the ads and privacy concerns.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Junior Prompt EngineeringEnglish
21·8 months agoLLMs are a type of neural networks.
Since PHP has to maintain backward compatibility, many of the issues are not and will never be fixed.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Which brands do actually care about a healthy customer relationship more than profit?English
25·9 months agoYou mean the company that makes money from getting children addicted to gambling?
Yes, also remember to completely avoid Typescript and C# since they are also Microsoft.
This, but unironically.
By what standard is GitLab not a “capitalist platform”? It feels even more corporatey than GitHub. From their homepage:
GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform.
SourceHut encourages an e-mail–based workflow that does not require anyone but the repository owner to have an account. In fact, that’s how Git originally worked before GitHub enshittified it.
How would decentralization work for an issue tracker? The issues have to be stored somewhere.
I’m sure there is a lot that the random developer who happened to be born in Russia can do about that.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•The basics of the Fediverse. Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, Reddit, ... vs the Fediverse. What do you think?English
41·9 months agoBut you can’t view Mastodon posts from Lemmy.
Does that also mean I should not browse any websites I don’t already know? That’s very limiting.
Is there anything bad that can happen if you just click a link without logging in or anything? How is it different from opening up a random search result?
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Do not try to deceive people. Always tell the truth, even if it’s uncomfortable.