I agree it's silly to hit back at people. As for managing the interruptions, I tend to think of it that a deep session needs maybe 3 hours from one end of the

I agree it's silly to hit back at people. As for managing the interruptions, I tend to think of it that a deep session needs maybe 3 hours from one end of the pool to the other. Break it and you might need to start over, depends on how checkpointy you can make it, so try to make a way to not get interrupted for that length of time. That's a real senior coder skill BTW, making your own exploration recoverable. You already mentioned one thing you can do, which is to not try the really long crossings.