Writing passwords on a piece of paper is actually not terrible compared with all the other alternatives.
For a start, it's not visible to hackers, and a trivial bit of obfuscation would puzzle most thieves, even if they found the piece of paper.
I agree a note stuck to the laptop/phone is a bad idea, that's kinda like taping your house key to the door!

Phones lock fairly well with fingerprints, a numeric key or gesture. This is pretty secure, if hardly unbreakable. But certainly a reasonable defence against casual thieves. If you are being targeted by the Russian mafia, or the Israeli mob, you have more problems than security ones.

I've lived in Australia, UK, and USA. In each country, everyone was convinced they had no accent. Everything is relative, as The Doctor would readily tell us.
It may well be that the "Kansas City" accent appears "unaccented" to a large number of American listeners, but to someone from Melbourne, London, Glasgow, Cape Town, Auckland or Mumbai, it'll sound like "another American accent'.

It is extraordinary how expensive USA universities are. Even compared with other countries that charge quite large amounts, such as Australia and the UK, the USA is on another level.
Why is this?
Many countries, German, Netherlands, etc, charge zero dollars for university degrees. Indeed, they even pay you a small amount to attend.
I hear that by the time you finish university in the USA, you are 200,000 dollars in debt. This is insane.
Why is the USA so against education - or so determined it can only be given, sorry, sold, to the already rich?

I love this "almost no accent" comment ... that means they have the same accent you do. Nothing else.

I'm glad you are wrong about it being lethal post 65. I'm 67 and have just completed my week of Covid quarantine as required here (still). It wasn't too bad, comparing my symptoms with other folk, mostly much younger.
I have had 2 vaccines, 2 boosters, and am generally heathy (and in Australia). So healthy, in fact, the doctor said I wasn't eligible for antivirals, unfortunately.
But, as everyone says, your mileage may vary.

I wrote a chat system for a major bank in Australia (which bank? Don't ask). I was not working for that bank at the time.
A couple of years later, they said they didn't want to pay support fees any more as they had written their won.
Really? So I had a look at their one (via the browser). They had literally transliterated my code form one language into another, even keeping the variable names.

Not impressed.

I live in Australia too, and bullshit it ain't.

The studies on myopia indicate it is indeed related to activity. If you spend much of your growing time indoors, looking at close things, your eyes become near sighted. The actual shape of the eye changes slightly. Nothing to do with the eye muscles.
This was dramatically seen in an Inuit group that one generation had practically no myopia, but a couple of generations later, after they moved indoors, myopia was common.
I suffered serious myopia after growing up in the UK in the 1960/70s and being fairly bookish. -6.5 vision is pretty horrible, requiring thick "coke-bottle" lenses. Hard contact lenses gave excellent vision, but were very uncomfortable. Later soft lenses were more comfortable, but vison less good.
Around 50, the lens in the eye hardens, preventing the muscles from moving the focus much, this is why long sightedness is common in older adults. This happened to me too, though I certainly did not become long sighted, just had a smaller range of focus.
I eventually opted for lens replacement surgery, with a multi focus lens. The result are pretty good, allowing vison at all distances, though reading glasses are still needed sometimes. There are significant side effects and acuity is well down, due to the triple focus of the Fresnel lenses.
On the bright side, I'm part cyborg now.

Water cooler chats are indeed great. What's not so great is, when you are deep in your construction of a model of the problem, someone wanders by and says "Heeeey, how's it going" ... and your model crumbles to dust.
I've been working from home for years, and I find it productive, if a little lonely.
(And don't get me started on Agile ... OMG)

Shipping is by far the most efficient way of moving goods about the planet. Container ships especially. Trains a distant seconds, then trucks, then planes ( I believe). Cars are awful.
Making things in the best place, then moving them to where the demand is tends to be terribly efficient. Growing tomatoes in Norway is ridiculous, but growing them in Israel and shipping to Norway is pretty good.
Local is a fine idea, but can be incredibly inefficient. Containers and container ships, trains, even trucks are there for a reason.

Getting these incredibly efficient ships off the most polluting fuel would be brilliant, but attempting to replace them with - what? Not necessarily good at all.

These figures are waaay outdated. Modern tyres and brakes are far better.
According to tests by a British Insurance company:

Our tests are conducted from 60 mph, measuring the distance it takes the vehicle to come to a complete stop using onboard test instruments. ...
Average Stopping Distance by Category.
Category Average dry braking 60-0 mph, ft.
Full-sized pickups 140
Large SUVs 143
Average of all tested vehicles 132

When do we get Johnny Cab?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Agile - I've always seen it, and experienced it, as an institutionalised form of micro management. (It's possible it might work, in the right environment, but I've not seen this).
Also - sprints. A sprinter is someone who trains for a long term, then does ONE sprint - lasting 10 seconds.

Short term aims, which seem to be the whole thrust of the technique, can look good, but come at the cost of ignoring long term aims. The technical debt incurred can be rather problematic.

They used to have a slogan -

"There's only one Jeep"

I always wished this was true.

I attended high school in the UK until 1975. At my school, we got a grade like this B2

The B referred to the quality of the work, and the 2 to the level of effort put in. (A is best, 1 is most effort)

(I always aspired to an A3, but only ever managed an A2 once, in physics, but I digress).