You can train yourself to skim for maximal extraction per minute. I burned through the article in about 3-4 minutes. I tend to get bogged down by my software developer's close-reading instincts.

Our bodies self-correct to maintain a constant calorie expenditure. Marathoners and lean-mean bush people were found to burn as many calories daily as a middle aged woman from Chicago. Takeaway: eat less if you want to lose weight.

Every deprived addict, from the grounded Minecraft player to the imprisoned dope fiend, will tell you the deprivation was good for him, but as soon he's given a shot at another fix, he'll instantly take it.

I hate Slack's always-on nature. That I keep using it should tell me how I really feel about it.

Which is why you need to make your product a little more than decent. "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." So be less dumb, and you can stay just as good.

Most people don't have the kind of eff-thou money, which is why OP asked his question conditioning on unionization.

Google.

how long did it take you to debug issues?

For many years, I googled for little elisp snippets I didn't understand.

If you use doom/spacemacs, do you feel the bloat?

Doom and spacemacs users care more about limiting time to productivity. If they cared about bloat, they'd have stuck with vi.

China (and other countries who put American math education to shame) disagrees.

For you, math may have been a deduction from first principles, but to us mere mortals, math is a decade-long slow reveal through wax-on-wax-off repetition.

MIT does this right. Students can boost their grade by submitting revised solutions after the initial marking.

Only bad programmers believe software scales with manpower. And it's those bad programmers who become hiring managers; the good programmers keep programming.