giraffe333

Worked at AOL tech support back in the day and I also still have the occasional flashback to the pain these so called modems caused us all.

I have this exact problem and (mostly) fixed it by swapping the sensor and transmitter. I just cut the wires and spliced with electrical tape. Now the problem still happens but only sometimes in the fall and spring when the sun's angle is just right. This is with a west facing garage about 41°N latitude USA.

But yeah, why this isn't laser based, or using a light frequency that is less affected by sunlight? Probably cost, or ignorance.

why aren't these fines percent of revenue, or a multiple of the number of people affected?

You can't "catch up" on sleep. The only way to get enough sleep is to have a schedule that you stick to.

It's ok to think about work off hours. Write down your thoughts, do some meditation practice to learn to let the work thoughts flow by and notice them, but let them go.

One place I worked, the rule was "always have two pairs of eyes on code". Each team got to decide whether that rule was met with some mix of mob or pair programming, or just code reviews/pull requests. We could change depending on the needs of the project and team members. If management forces any of these options on teams it is a huge mistake. The point of pair programming is to share knowledge, reduce bugs, etc. and making it into a metric to measure teams by doesn't work.

It's a lot like setting a minimum code coverage rule like 80 or 90%, people end up cursing the rule as it makes them do stupid things to satisfy the rule. Code coverage is one great tool to explore where your code needs more tests, but it's not the only one, and it's not the point. The point is writing code that's easily maintained, safely changed, and can be delivered to meet customer needs.

You hired really smart people (hopefully) and you should let them decide how to work.

Why don't excel and all the things that can read excel kill the old xls (2^16 limit) format? I mean still let excel read the file, but don't allow changing the file. Only allow saving the old file to the new format.

Adding on to the thoughts about everyone writing terrible code sometimes, there is also “terrible code makes lots of money”.

Source: over 20 years doing software dev at various companies with terrible code that makes millions. Happily my current job has really great code (imho).