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If you can test it on a feature branch then at least you can squash or tidy the commits after you've got them working. If you can only test by committing to main though, curse whoever designed that.

Addendum to 2: never believe that what they say is relevant to what's actually happening here. You have a lot of faith that the people writing error messages knew what they were doing!

Never dealt with an intermittent failure or race condition, eh?

Doesn't every company offer that? "Yeah we're really done supporting this, but if you want to spend a million quid a month on it then sure, you can have ultra extra extended support", then every old company that relies on this for their money-printing machine and can't be bothered updating their ancient code sends them a blank cheque.

Search for "emergency" in your settings, I can apparently turn them all off (though I've never received one anyway)

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I think I learned about nonce words on Brass Eye

It was actually a pretty good Bond parody too!

Why is this picture of text a video?

Definitely a backronym. The wiki page covers all the possible etymologies and also has a load of alternatives for OP!