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You might want to update the warning:

Is it safe?

Uh… it evals both user input and random code, unchecked, from an external site. This is what the security-minded folks writing anti virus software would refer to as: hey, our unpacker does that too! In kernel mode if we're from symantec! Must be perfectly safe!

Yeah, cheap shot, I know ;-)

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/06/analysis-and-...

Is it terrible that I am highly tempted to use this as an API, forcing the value in via headless chrome then printing the page to a PDF and using OCR & regular expressions to extract a sorted list? I'm pretty sure that's an O(1) (ish, not really) which I always heard was the best kind.

It's not O(1). You are only calling the API once, but if you put in a larger list the time will increase in accordance to whatever the complexity is of the sorting happening behind the scenes. Calling this O(1) would be like saying qsort is O(1) because you are only calling the function once.

dude.its called a joke

do you hire remote?