Notices by Badtux the Snarky Penguin (badtux@mastodon.social)

@eniko But then the boss would have fewer people to manage, and be unable to justify his job. Most software changes are about employment for engineers, not necessity. Grr.

As a software engineer I want computer languages and frameworks that stay stable for decades rather than have a new release every year that obsoletes old programs and requires a rewrite. But I don't get to have that :(.

#software #softwaredevelopment

#maga #extremists

@wesdym @Csmgj Fares rarely account for more than 15% of the cost of running buses.

But Tucson AZ made its buses free and discovered a different problem: their ridership increased, but it was mostly homeless people just riding around to stay out of the weather. It didn't reduce traffic at all.

The DIY guillotine is the official DIY project of the coming decade.

The oligarchs say "let them eat cake". Fine. We know how that ends. #oligarchy #fascism

@br00t4c Just after Mango Mussolini served some Quarter Pounders to people. Coincidence?

@leeloo @thomholwerda IBM OS/3 would be a Linux kernel with a CMS shell. Remember that IBM now owns Red Hat, one of the top Linux vendors.

When you're famous, they let you do it. #Walz

@LilahTovMoon @can @chrisgeidner Note that offering an opinion is a 1st Amendment protected activity. GARM only offers an opinion, like Consumer Reports, and has no contractual ability to force their member companies to boycott anybody, and thus their activities are protected by the 1st Amendment just like the activities of Consumer Reports are protect by the 1st Amendment.

@HistoPol @JessTheUnstill @doppelgrau In short, your observations about the handicapped and public transit are totally divorced from the reality. Public transit is the most friendly form of transit for the handicapped, and that has been true for decades.

@HistoPol @JessTheUnstill @doppelgrau The fact that a third world nation has an unsafe mass transit system is of supreme disinterest to me. The fact that the United States lacks a functional mass transit system in 99% of its cities -- by functional, I mean any address no more than 2 blocks from a stop, and buses/trains run every 15 minutes -- makes life excruciatingly difficult for those who can't drive cars for whatever reason.

@darnell I have checked into Threads twice. Once I logged in, looked around, and logged out. The second time I logged in, accepted a friend request from a long-time friend, and logged out. Mastodon seems to work better for me, except for the problem that you can't do a news feed on Mastodon about a specific breaking news item because it has no global search function.

@roadriverrail @stavvers A believer in an invisible sky demon that is all powerful and knows everything yet doesn’t do anything other than torture random people it doesn’t like. These believers even have an entire book where their invisible sky demon tortures one of its followers for no reason at all.

At the rural school district I last worked at, we had 1500 students, of whom 1,000 were free lunch and 500 were not. The cost of personnel (an entire department!), computers, and software for vetting students to make sure those 500 didn't get free lunch cost more than the cost of simply feeding them, already.

The GOP jihad about preventing those 500 from getting free lunch is not about taxes or expense, it's about being mean to children. #gop #antichild #school #lunch #meanness