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WE LOVE OUR BEAVERS.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Leave It to Beaver?[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Did a beaver chew through a cable? Fell a tree that took out infrastructure? Have a burst dam take out infrastructure?
I recall reading that much of North America's topography was shaped by beavers, whose dams backfilled low-lying areas and made them more fertile.
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From what I read, a single beaver felled a tree that took out some fiber optic lines.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I used to work for a power company in Vermont. My boss heard a loud bang at his house and the power goes out. He goes out into his yard and finds a smoking fried squirrel on the ground and the fuse on his utility pole was blown.
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My uncle had the same thing, except it was a squirrel nest on top of a transformer. The casing rusted through and one night during a storm, the transformer exploded.
Software Zen: delete this;
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We lived on Guam in the mid-70’s and occasionally had island wide power outages that were supposedly caused by suicidal snakes crawling into some power stations or whatever.
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But what about the squirrels?!?
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They became squirrel-infused confetti.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Exact same thing has happened to me. Except the power pole was across the county road from my house. Called the utility company and they came out and put a new fuse up on the transformer that fed my house.. . . .and a prickly thing over the terminal where the line attaches to it to attempt to keep the critters from being a conduit for the electricity there.
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/ravi
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Beavers are no laughing matter. They'll build dams wherever they damned well please, causing water streams to get rerouted and causing floods. Destroy a dam and they'll be back at it the next day. And since it's illegal to kill them in Canada, you have to get so-called experts involved.
I witnessed that firsthand 2+ decades ago. I can just imagine the stupid paperwork nowadays.
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And we're just trying to re-introduce them here in the UK...
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Ah man, this is such a rooster-up!
GCS/GE 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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It could pretty easily happen here in Michigan too, but I think squirrel-based outages are more common.
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Quit encasing cables in yummy plastics.
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A question on bubble sort got 7 (seven!) solutions at QA.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I was was looking for cool 3 line (or less) STL solution from you. 
"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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Unfortunately C++ was not allowed: I was was looking for a cool metaprogramming solution by the CodeWitch. 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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We are solving home work problems now, because it's easier to learn from the final solution.
Problem is if they're to lazy to do the assignment they ain't going to go through the code to figure it out unless it doesn't work, then they'll just come back here and ask why it doesn't work.
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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And even if it does work, and they pass their course, they'll get an interview question they don't understand and expect us to do it for them as well.
And then, when they get a job they can't do, they'll expect us to do their actual work for them too.
Some people seem to think QA is a free outsourcing tool. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Some people seem to think QA is a free outsourcing tool.
Well if people keep giving them the code instead of forcing them to do the work themselves that's exactly what it is.
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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CPallini wrote: A question on bubble sort got 7 (seven!) solutions at QA.
Damn low hanging fruit. I can't even get 1 satisfactory answer for a simple question I asked last week! I'm not complaining...just ranting as it fades into oblivion.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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