I’m now tempted to do this for all several thousand commits in the main branch, and at the very least create a better changelog.

It’s fine, the reviewer doesn’t have time to actually look at the code anyway. Lgtm, ship it.

Noone reads the email.

My update isn’t exciting but it is important. I need people to know this stuff or I’ll be fielding questions on it for the next 6 months as everyone individually discovers the changes.

I’m not going to spend time rewriting my update to sound thrilling and engaging in order to attract the eyes of the lowest common denominators attention span.

So we have a meeting, everyone listens, and if they say afterwards that they weren’t told or weren’t paying attention, there’s a recording of the zoom call so they can try again.

It’s work, if it were fun and enjoyable 100% of the time we wouldn’t be paid to be there.

Pay attention. Significantly more cars can make it through the lights per “green” if everyone moves as soon as they can. You’re creating extra stationery traffic for everyone.

It was one of the reasons I left academia. I doubled my pay within two years.

Cost of living is significantly lower, and the social safety net means you don’t need as much anyway.

My gut feel is wages are so much higher in the US because everyone is responsible for looking after themselves if life turns on them, so you’re obliged to stockpile wealth in case you’re suddenly jobless or have a giant medical or education bill to contend with.

I found succession easier to watch from the second season onwards. Something about season 1 made me very uncomfortable, I’m not sure if it’s the program that changed after that, or maybe I got used to the style of it.

Guessing it could be venomous sounds pretty reasonable. Being locked in an enclosed space with an unknown Australian snake? No thanks.