Dryondristica

This was my impression as well. At a minimum it needs some subheadings.

People always criticise Python for dependency management, but I've never found it to be that bad. virtualenv with requirements.txt has been completely fine in my experience with medium-sized projects. If necessary you can pin versions with a separate version-locked requirements.txt, and populate that from a base requirements file.

There is an entire, well-established SEO industry worth billions trying to get Google to index your content and feature it. News publishers are literally incentivising Google to do the opposite. It makes no sense. I really hope Google continues to call their bluff - they would be completely dead if not for Google traffic, and they surely know it.

I learnt a second language from scratch as an adult. The neural plasticity thing is definitely real but I think the effect is often overstated. Adults a) rarely spend as much focused time on language study as kids and b) are more afraid of making mistakes/less inclined to say things that they know are not 100% right. I've observed that people who care less about making mistakes (to the point where it's embarrassing to watch) end up learning much faster.

This problem is good because it illustrates a good way to think through any counter-intuitive problem - increase the numbers to amplify the effect. I remember being taught a similar thing in physics class, to make the weight stupidly heavy or the charge stupidly large, and then see what happens. This kind of thinking can be applied in a lot of different areas.