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I grew up at about 50 degrees latitude and saw these as well as Sun Dogs[^] more than I want to remember. The wikipedia pages do not really talk about the accompanying weather but (for Sun Dogs at least) they are very reliable at telling you that it is going to be cold as hell (*) very soon.
(*) in the figurative sense, not literal sense.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Quote: to be cold as hell
I think/hope I have hell behind me 
Anyway I think I saw a kind of helo today/yesterday.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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So I went from a job where, among other things, branching wasn't done because it was too complicated, you had to queue builds in SDLC manually for QA and for PROD you had to go through another layer of paperwork which involved filling out some obtuse fields in a horrid Excel document and then submitting a deploy request through an equally horrid custom web page....
...to a job where branching is used (typically on something where making a custom branch would be useful) and Jenkins is set up to automatically build and deploy to code to the test / live site depending on where the commit / merge is made (dev or master.)
No submitting builds manually in SDLC, no obtuse forms, no awful web UI's.
Life is good. Very good.
Now, granted, supposedly the reason for the miserable way of doing things previously had to do with auditing requirements, but really, there still had to be a better way!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc as a rant that is one dismal failure 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Take no chances: Stay away from the coffee machine, in case it's cr@p.
That could make the walls come tumbling down.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Previous versioning system were zip files and changelogs smacked onto a file server. I briefly used SVN for a customer like 3 months ago.
Here we use Git with git flow, I finally managed to learn how to use it and with the gods blessing I won't turn back anytime soon.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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To avoid dangerous cults, should you practice safe sects?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Given a choice, what would voodoo? Moonie would tend to agree with you.
Sometimes, I confess, they could give you an adventage over others.
Pray that you don't end up in that situation.
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That may be the only true path.
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Hmm, more wise words from Dom OriginalGriff (DOG),
... do you have anything to drink?
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Do you prefer cats or dogs?
Answers only count if you actually have a cat and/or dog yourself. Just watching cat videos or cute dog videos, etc. on YouTube doesn't count. Just remember, dogs have owners, cats have staff.
Full disclosure - I have a dog currently, but have had both in the past - simultaneously!
I will update this list occasionally as responses come in.
Current cat owners: 11
Past cat owners: 5
Current dog owners: 14
Past dog owners: 7
Future dog owners: 2
Others:
* Llama (unsubstantiated)
* Coffee Bean (unroasted - not a flying toy!)
* Ex-pig (no further explanation required)
* Assorted rodents
* Snakes
* Rock
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Cats - have 3 now, but I've had dogs before.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Llamas have rights too!!!
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I had a pet coffee bean once, does that count?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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was it from a civet cat?
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Nope, a packet marked "Tesco" 
I made it a little collar, and a bed, and ...
Then Herself gave him his one and only flying lesson and I never saw Beany again. 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I smell trouble brewing . . .
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Cats. Independent rather than fawning, generally helpful with their wastes instead of "here'll do", don't eat noxious substances then lick your face, ...
Don't get me wrong; I like dogs - my neighbour calls me "The Dog Whisperer" because his dogs do whatever I want them to, and ignore every command he gives them - just I like them like children: fine as long as you can give them back.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've got 4 dogs and 1 cat. I like both, but I must admit that I prefer the cat. He's an outdoor cat and earns his stay by getting rid of the rodents around the house. The dogs, well they're cute, but really provide no service whatsoever other than being a blanket for the Mrs. at home.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
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I have a dog, while I like cats, dogs are just better for me, and are pretty much the only reason I get any exercise at all.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Cats - "they are smarter"
we had cats when I was a kid
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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A previous neighbour had an Afghan who had a tendency to wander off. So he fitted a gate on the path. The dog was big enough to walk over it without problems but it was just a gate - no fence either side, he could have walked round it at any time.
He told me the dog was too thick to think of either - and he was right, Rufus just couldn't get out unless somebody opened the gate. 
Cats? I'm pretty sure they have invented teleporters ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I had a similar experience with one of my dogs, not even trying to open an unlocked gate. Cats are way smarter.
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Cats in general, and some dogs.
I'd like to have a nice cat robot that behaves like a real cat; pretty much ignores me except when time for feeding/charging.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Cats, but, not by a large margin. Have one cat now. Had a border collie while I was growing up, but, neither my wife nor I can be home during the day, so a puppy is right out.
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