Robert Watkins @[email protected]

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.

@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.

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

@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.

⚠️Remember⚠️tickets are needed for most fireworks vantage points in the city for #SydNYE. You can find tickets using our vantage point map. sydneynewyearseve.com/vantage-points…

@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.

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

@nixcraft Today's repeat of The Daily WTF might be relevant here... thedailywtf.com/articles/best-…

How on earth "YmE3OTEwMjg0ZGM5Y2JhNDA5NTM5MWMw" is NOT a secure password? It is 32 long (allowed max length). I would like someone to try to break it under my lifetime ;) The developers of this app are clueless when it comes to password security.

@BradWrench It used to snow more, so people were more familiar with it. The same types of modern cars work just fine in Canada...

@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)

@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.

@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.

@twasink @jimwebber It actually isn’t a free market but a rigged one - all upside and downside risk pushed to governments and people. The companies are systemically gouging and acting as defacto cartels.

14 months ago my monthly power bill was £130. It’s now £400. Remind me again how the @Conservatives are the party of sound money.

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

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

@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.

@twasink Yes it certainly is! Their input costs haven’t risen at all.

@jimwebber And this is why... theguardian.com/business/2022/…

Update: for December (when it was cold) the actual billed amount was just over £1200. This is insane.

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

Good morning! Short sellers smell blood. Today is the day Tesla, recently valued at $415, falls under $99 due to Musk’s incompetent leadership. Predict the time today it will hit that, and I’ll RT the winner. Good luck!

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

@twasink @abcnews And a huge weather event.

'World-first': Renewable energy covers SA's electricity needs for a week abc.net.au/news/2022-12-1…

policy page and tweets announcing it are now gone. archive links for posterity: thread: web.archive.org/web/2022121901… policy page: web.archive.org/web/2022121817…

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