Robert Watkins @[email protected]

I live in Brisbane, AU. My politics lean socialist. ❤️ is ❤️, people. He/him. Never paying for Twitter Blue. Recents posts on Mastodon - @[email protected]

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

I've been a professional software developer (for some definition of all three words) for over 23 years. I have been writing software for several years before that.

I am now physically incapable of copying and pasting text that does not have a typo init.

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@dcotterill Deliberate design decisions. Ticketek has chosen to build a system that breaks under load because it makes highly-demanded tickets even more hyped, increasing their value on the secondary market, where Ticketek makes even more money.

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@evolvable I thought anyone would read and remember them...

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@RachaelHasIdeas @derridalicious @cityofsydney The ticketing is done to limit crowd sizes. At least for the free zones; the more expensive ticketed sites are there to raise money.

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@scalzi Screw Bruno. I want to talk about how Mirabel makes people break out into song with perfect rhyme, harmony, counterpoint, and instrumental accompaniment, yet they say she doesn’t have a gift.

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@carlfish And she pays for a blue tick as well. I swear, it’s the new red baseball cap

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@nixcraft Today's repeat of The Daily WTF might be relevant here...

https://t.co/oOfZFEFb0Q

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@BradWrench It used to snow more, so people were more familiar with it.

The same types of modern cars work just fine in Canada...

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@evolvable Now, now - when you literally don't understand it, reasoned questioning is the way to learn.

The way to determine if this actually includes reasoned questioning is if they listen to the answers and learn. In which case the questioning should stop (or get deep into the weeds)

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@derridalicious Probably had the driver who dropped him off go to the other airport to pick him up. He strikes me as the kind of guy to do a Colston.

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@akohli @jimwebber Cartels are the ultimate example of a free market, though. As is externalising risk and price gouging.

That's what powerful players will do in a market free of rules to prevent them from doing so.

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@lschmeiser @PhilipMichaels The problem is that mystery movies have solutions. Find some avant-garde indie movie where the mystery _doesn't have a solution_

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@Grady_Booch They'd do better to mansplain it to him. He might learn something.

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@jimwebber They have a bit; oil and gas production is down, with the war in Ukraine. But the war (and COVID) have been the cover for the price gouging.

It's a free market, and they're free to charge what the market will bear. The solution is to change the game.

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@jimwebber And this is why...

https://t.co/KYJoqCQq7p

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@BriannaWu The real short sellers started back when TSLA was in the 400s…

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

You can find my more recent posts at https://t.co/sM37aO18e0

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@LesliejohnAndr2 @abcnews Well, yes. That's what caused the transmission lines to fail.

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

policy page and tweets announcing it are now gone.

archive links for posterity:
thread: https://t.co/4oxPxWk9d8
policy page: https://t.co/EOGZqttDQT

[Robert Watkins @[email protected] @twasink]

@evolvable Oh, he’s got a very extensive list from all of the accounts with links to other social media sites in their bio.