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> But does anyone else get embarrassed

No.

> there's no way a grown adult in another field evaluates another grown adult …

There is. Demonstrating competency over a common and interesting problem is the baseline.

Are queues commonly needed? Yes. Is task processing commonly async? Yes.

Fantastic, then what precisely is the problem?

What is most puzzling to me is that people are confounded when even low standards are set for each other. This isn’t a high bar.



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