Stability improvements #392

Job	Run time
populate-cache	5m 0s
test (3.9, 1)	3m 31s
test (3.11, 2)	3m 31s
test (3.9, 2)	3m 31s
test (3.12, 1)	3m 25s
test (3.10, true, true, true, 1)	3m 14s
conda-build	0s
docs	0s
Build with pip and publish to PyPI	0s
	22m 12s

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