{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Tfw you realize that your brain has the alphabet stored as a linked list", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/176180278843/", "html": "

argumate:

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judiciousimprecation:

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argumate:

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szhmidty:

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argumate:

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wirehead-wannabe:

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Tfw you realize that your brain has the alphabet stored as a linked list

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is it really that necessary to index it by number

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It\u2019d help. I\u2019d like to be able to know if S came before Q without having to start at the beginning and sing my way through until I hit one.

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that\u2019s even worse, you want a letter -> number mapping!

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really you just need to store them in a doubly linked list, to allow backwards traversal

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Worse yet, I still have the goddamn cardinal directions stored as a linked list (N-E-S-W). Remembering which way is \u201cWest\u201d is 4 times harder that \u201cNorth\u201d

and yet, when I learned the words for them in Japanese, that problem went away, but only in Japanese! My brain stored nishi, higashi, minami, and kita in a much better data structure and I now I can access them in constant time.

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I get East and West mixed up, but never North and South.

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When I moved to LA after spending my life in suburban Philadelphia and upstate New York, I realized that I\u2019d been storing \u201cWest\u201d as \u201cinland\u201d and \u201cEast\u201d as \u201ccoastward\u201d and it fucked me up

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