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Previous to last night my only experience of an earthquake was a very minor shoogle while I was offshore Qatar, and thought it was just the crane driver being rough with a load landing.
Last night however! Was woken up at 3.07am local, with everything moving randomly, cupboard doors rattling etc. real WTF moment
Turns out there was a Magnitude 6.6, 48km WNW of Polis, off the west coast of Cyprus.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000gaqu/executive
I guess once the weather clears and I get the observatory open again, I'll need to recheck the polar alignment on the scope! 
Thankfully all good, no damage here, but quite exciting at the time!
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I experienced several 6-7.0+ earthquakes and many subsequent aftershocks while living in southern California in the late 80's early 90's. Exciting and scary all at the same time, for sure.
Brick buildings can be beautiful, but they are no match for a good earthquake. Many historical buildings were damaged and/or destroyed during that time period.
Glad you had no damage.
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Lots of complaints here in the Netherlands from people living in the North in the province of Groningen.
Although earthquakes are a rarity over here, due to gas exploitation things are not stable anymore and lots of houses are damaged. 
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RickZeeland wrote: due to gas exploitation things are not stable anymore and lots of houses are damaged
That's nuts. I hope said gas exploitation companies are paying for the repairs?
I live in an area with a lot of nearby housing development going on. They're doing a lot of work involving dynamite. It's my understanding that the developer was required to take picture of neighboring houses (specifically, foundations) so if any cracks appear as a result of their work, they're on the hook.
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Paying for the repairs proved to be very problematic, despite promises from the government people are waiting for years now. The government also just broke their promise not to extract gas anymore, needless to say that the "Groningers" are not amused 
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I had the pleasure to visit PTT office in Groningen in the 90s. Most secure building I ever visited.
It was surrounded by a moat with a guarded bridge.
My host lived out in a small town on the “new” ground in a house that was built around the founding of United States.
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Speaking about the founding of the United States, on Dutch television I'm watching a series of documentaries about the voyage of the Mayflower that started in the Netherlands.
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Some years ago I lived in Chicago . While working at my desk w/ my leg lightly pressed against the desk's leg I felt the pressure increase by a bit . I knew instantly it was an earthquake as I did not move my leg to cause it . The desk moved perhaps a tenth of a millimeter . That evening it was so reported on the local news . So I survived the great Chicago Earthquake
"I once put instant coffee into the microwave and went back in time." - Steven Wright
"Shut up and calculate" - apparently N. David Mermin possibly Richard Feynman
My sympathies to the SPAM moderator
“I want to sing, I want to cry, I want to laugh. Everything together. And jump and dance. The day has arrive — yippee!” - Desmond Tutu
“When the green flag drops the bullshit stops!”
"It is cheaper to save the world than it is to ruin it."
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I'm glad you made it through, Dave! My last was almost 30 years ago; things have been pretty tame since moving to AZ. The last one, the double quake that hit Landers and Big Bear City in the Peoples' Republic of California, caught me on the sleeping on the third floor of a mountain cabin. Well, the first one did - by the time the second hit an hour later, I was quite awake! I started out the door to check for gas leaks, but seeing my first ever live mountain lion sitting at the top of my stairs, very twitchy, made me reconsider. Initial reports on that first hit set it at a magnitude 9.1. Being centered just a couple of miles away, that was quite a memorable day. I no longer get out of bed for anything less than a 7. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm definitely refusing. 
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Wonderful.
Dylan would have laughed too.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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one of my mother's favorite poems 
as someone who often was a wild-man in daze of yore, i have always found a deep something in the fourth stanza:
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night. now, tamed (broken ?) by age, i am left with a ghost of a roar
i'm sorry to say mother, like Dylan Thomas, went out not raging, or grieving, but, in an alcoholic stupor.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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No one on my team is working on the same stuff as I am! 
Let me tell you, that makes for a very poor code review experience! 
modified 10-Jan-22 23:43pm.
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Or the best code review experience! No one knows your code better than you, so go over it carefully with your rubber duck.
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Well, you only have to do three lines of code a day - how hard can it be? 
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Sometimes, ahem, I do more than that!  
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Well yeah - but the extra one is just a comment ... 
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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"I work alone... yeah! yeah!... with nobody else..." -- (George Thorogood)
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One of the main but often overlooked points of a code review, is that someone else knows your code.
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Exactly!
Works best when they start already knowing a bit of it, unfortunately!
If, only, for motivation...
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That's the history of my (working) life.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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You're a legend too!
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