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  Is going to be earlier and waking just before things start heating up an option? Here in rural northeastern Japan, we do that to beat the heat of the day for work outside (getting up right around 4 or a bit before when days are their longest) and a lot of folks are asleep by 20 or 21.

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  I'm going to guess, and I may be wrong, that a lot of people who would vote for the US Dems have no idea who he is. I didn't until the last year, though I've lived outside of the US for a decade now

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  The documentation I mean here should be in the repo and checked as a part of the PR process. I don't mean it should be a manual, I just mean a readme should at least describe what the service does (it has such a generic name in my case that it's not self-evident and is so broad in scope I don't know what happened). The functions also have terrible naming and no comments to describe what they do. So, as a guy just coming into this team after re-org with no idea what all this stuff do...

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  I recently got moved to another team after my company restructured. Several repos have zero documentation. Most of those don't even have comments on the functions. `LinkXxxx(some args)` like Xxxx to /what?!/ It's also an over-engineered mess with multiple layers of abstraction. I can't wait to finish figuring out what everything does and re-write (and document it) like a sane person. This code presumably had no AI involvement which I'd argue is even worse since real humans made t...

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  We were going to destroy it in an oven after printing, but the whole "pre-heating" thing led to a not-yet-resolved argument.