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I searched on mobile, so no ad blocker. There were no ads for that query, and all of the content up to maybe the 5th result was an acceptable answer to the query (i.e. on a site that wasn't plastered with ads)

If I search "plumber" the first 3 results are ads.

I'm in Australia.

Searching "how to fix a leaky faucet" on Google turned up the page from "This Old House" immediately (top 3 results, top 2 were wikiHow and a YouTube video that seemed OK at a glance).

I'm not sure why my personal results are often so much better than posts like this one whenever I do the experiment - maybe it's based on location?

I would probably argue that either the first algorithm is incorrect (because searched can be larger than INT_MAX) or the complexity of the second algorithm is bound both by O(searched) (or sqrt(searched), if implemented with more vigour) and O(1) (because the value of 'searched' is bound by a constant).

> I doubt they decided independently on a back to office date in the same ~1 month timeframe

Given the reason for office closures was covid, I'd guess that companies in the same geographical area would make similar decisions about when it was appropriate to return to office work. It would be more surprising to me if large companies with similar decision-making throughout the pandemic, in the same geographical area, had drastically different timelines.

Almost all of that blog post was complete bullshit. Recursive neural net? I don't understand why that post was written.

Saying 99/100 doctors think something medical is true isn't an appeal to authority... Doctors /are/ an authority on medical matters. Programmers aren't an authority on economic matters.

There are infinitely many infinitely thin lines that fit in that band and cover the countries.

I don't know. That seemed like a fairly simple exploration of the problem and an easy library function to solve it. Would it be much simpler in any other language?

If that 95% assumes that people undergo background checks, my assumption is that number might decrease.

> I'm guessing pretty junior with this kind of hubris

If you check their profile their site suggests that have ~15 years of experience.

Depends how you look at it. Dev time is a finite resource, and spending it on supporting a weird combo of user agent and browser seems likely to lead to less user utility.

> Is rampant systemic sexism the reason why 95% of child care teachers are women?

Yes, absolutely. Men are generally treated very poorly if they choose to voluntarily work with small children.

You're usually on-call for a fairly humane shift, not 24h a day.

It's plausible that they changed jobs ;).