Blinds literally work in a large office space. I work in such a space now. We get direct sunlight most of the year. If it’s too bright, people just go up to the window and put up the blinds. If it’s an overcast day, sometimes the blinds are up, sometimes they’re down, just based on any random person’s whim. As I said above, if you work in a place that literally makes the room so bright that you can’t see your screen, the solution is probably not to argue about your ideal setup with strangers on HN, but rather to have a conversation with your coworkers and make it so you can actually see your screen.

No, just personal experience. When I worked at Uber, the main office was so big that it meant that large parts of the office were dark. Some teams, like, super critical to the core business and highly compensated paid teams, actually hung a bunch of plants in their area as a way to cope with not seeing sunlight.

Someone going on a rant about how miserable they were about having too much sunlight, while at the same time being incapable of applying incredibly common trivial solutions to solve this calamity - I found this quite silly and it made me a bit upset.