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  More funny than rage inducing. Worked as a Senior DevOps engineer at a startup. They have *no* proper automation for deploying their code. Manually updating config in a GUI type situation. This takes a crazy amount of time, there are many errors, and it generally slows down development progress. There are 300 people working there, at least five dev teams, its hundreds of work hours every month wasted by this. So I start writing a system to automate it - what is called Continuous Integration /...

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  The nerve that connects the larynx to the brain in all animals goes down through the neck, around the aorta, up through the neck again. In giraffes, it is the longest nerve in the animal kingdom. The signal delay is so long that giraffes are unable to make any complex sounds. Source: inside natures giants documentary series, recommended.