Those are a thing but probably not as bad. You may gain seniority. The second is unavoidable. The last can be dealt with and there are levels of ethics around that.

The folly is the same as the rock star amplifier that “goes to 11” or how gig economy reviews are 5 star = acceptable or better, anything else means dreadful.’It is just a linear transform people have to do in their heads.

Buy ear plugs and wait 6 months

So you can use sin(x) for various x to tell what you are running on. Maybe even in the browser?

There is a shader which uses similar idea to detect what kind of GPU you have https://www.shadertoy.com/view/slySWV

V8 and SpiderMonkey have converged to the same underlying library (fdlibm), partly for the interoperability, so you generally can't.

I would take it at a FAANG that actually compensates you for it but out here in the sticks of the rest of the world it just ain’t worth the stress and red tape crunches (like being forced to do scrum or forced to do unrealistic planning in a week for 13 weeks work)

Quite the strawman! If you can’t say “that is too complex”, “I don’t know” or give nuanced answers then… you probably aren’t smart. That said I am moving the goalposts.

I would like to see evidence that people getting hard degrees are like this. Plenty of un book smart people think they know it all too, see Reddit comments for plenty of examples.

That is true it gives you time to migrate.

Surely being able to gather information is a key point in identifying process problems. NTSB wont blame them but they might want to speak to them.

A really good blog post might do it. The bar is quite high there as of course lots of people are blogging to establish themselves as the expert in X. So nothing that gives me positioning vibes. Those curiousity driven posts are better.

But also any developer who has clearly done X and we need X at work right now.

Can they be subpoenaed? Then they will be forced to comply, or dump all the dirty laundry.