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.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you shit your pants, do you keep going with your day or is your day over?English9·2 months agoI am worried by how many people in this thread shit their pants often enough to be able to answer the question.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgto Buy European@feddit.uk•/r/buyfromEU "Lemmy is populated by far left Americans who were banned from Reddit for extremism. Strict ideological conformity is required or you’ll get actual death threats."English22·3 months agoMost people on Lemmy are in favor of killing all rich people, which I’d consider a far left position.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?English31·3 months agoDon’t most terminals flush the buffer on newline anyway?
I also have Ahinsa shoes and they’re great.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgto Buy European@feddit.uk•Mapy.com adding traffic information for Slovakia, Poland, Germany and AustriaEnglish101·3 months agoBe aware that Mapy is made by Seznam, which is basically the Czech equivalent of Google, including the ads and privacy concerns.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgto Buy European@feddit.uk•Mapy.com adding traffic information for Slovakia, Poland, Germany and AustriaEnglish4·3 months agoThey totally are selling your data. Seznam is a targeted advertising company just like Google.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgto OpenStreetMap community@lemmy.ml•Mapy.cz gradually transitioning to Mapy.comEnglish5·3 months agoBe aware that Mapy is made by Seznam, which is basically the Czech equivalent of Google, including the ads and privacy concerns.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgto Buy European@feddit.uk•Is SourceHut a good Github alternative?English4·3 months agoIf you want a really fast, convenient and bloat-free sofware forge, definitely. If you want a FOSS clone of GitHub, you’re better off using Forgejo.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Junior Prompt EngineeringEnglish21·3 months agoLLMs are a type of neural networks.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgto DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•At least repost the latest versionEnglish33·3 months agoWhat a strawman. There are many reasons to not use Google products that have nothing to do with Google being in the USA.
Since PHP has to maintain backward compatibility, many of the issues are not and will never be fixed.
Oh, right! Have you looked into Owncloud, the parent of Nextcloud that claims to be free of the bloat of its child?
I’ve recently found Filen and it seems to be working well.
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Or the people at Microsoft could learn to read. While that takes more than a minute, it can also be useful for other purposes.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgto Linux@lemmy.world•Kagi is Porting its Orion Web Browser to LinuxEnglish3·3 months agoYes, which is not Chromium.
Honesty
Do not try to deceive people. Always tell the truth, even if it’s uncomfortable.