With physics, but paused while coding. It only comes crashing down when the code gets executed.

We can add caching so numbers that have been checked once can be quickly looked up from an inMemory database.

Sounds like they are the product owner :)

Even without algorithm knowledge it should be fairly obvious that you can just fast forward several minutes and check if the item has gone missing.

Not the most efficient solution, but beats watching the entire tape in real time.

Just npm install isWeekend for the required locales.

Depends on: isMonday, isTuesday,...

The tight Integration of the debugger is a huge benefit over what a text editor would provide.

Sure you possibly can add all the stuff to some text editors too, if you spend enough time / energy.

Tilted 22 degree to maximize the potential line length that can be displayed.

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20211203-ideal-monitor-rotation-for-programmers/

import codegolf
codegolf.challenge1() 

300 nested if statements, (...) added another 5000 nested if statements.

At this point I want to doubt that they actually wrote it themselves, vs writing a metaprogram to generate the code.

That's the problem. It will confidently give you an correct sounding answer.

If it is actually true is a different topic. So don't just blindly trust it. Verify, or at least sanity check it.

The solution is obviously to replace the mods by bots, to fight other bots.

Battle bots, but virtual XD

You poor soul.

clicks scrollbar with mouse and drags it, instead of using the scroll wheel