And thank god for that, at least. He is too stupid to make his petty policies more durable, instead relying on methods that are just as trivial to undo as they were to implement in the first place. We would be in a much worse place if he had the cunning of Kissinger.
I worked on the problem of recording 'design rationale' ~25 years ago. It is a big problem. Particulalry for long-lived artefacts, such as nuclear reactors. Nobody is quite sure exactly why decisions were made, as the original designers have forgotten, retired or been run over by buses. And this makes changing things difficult and risky. The biggest problem is that there is no real incentive for the people making the decisions to write down why they made them:
* they may see it as reducing their career security
* they may see it as opening them up to potential prosecution
This is incredibly valuable context thank you. The career security point especially is something I hadn't fully articulated but explains why ADRs always die. Nobody wants to document themselves out of a job.
The approach I'm exploring tries to remove the human writing step entirely passively capturing decisions from PRs, Slack threads, and tickets and auto drafting the rationale. The human just approves or dismisses in one click.
The incentive problem flips instead of asking someone to document themselves, you're just asking them to approve something already written. Much lower friction.
Curious from your 25 years on this do you think the passive capture angle addresses the incentive problem or does the resistance run deeper than just the writing effort?
No idea if he was as much of an insufferable egomaniac as that article makes out.
Some decades ago I think it was assumed that homosexuality and paedophilia were pretty much the same thing. Hopefully we are a bit more enlightened now.
It isn't hard to make your own hot sauce to your own tastes. I grow my own chillis, lacto ferment them with shop bought pineapple and add mango and vinegar. Tastes far better than most shop bought sauces IMHO.
Based on what - that some of the aristocracy have French/Norman sounding names? A lot don't.
Nearly a thousand years of interbreeding insures that the genes have been well and truly intermixed by now. I have no idea if my ancestors were orginally saxon, norman or something else. And I expect that it true of 99% of other people in the UK.
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