Compare this to the UK and Switzerland, two places I have lived with extensive rail networks. I can’t think of anywhere that the train tracks aren’t clearly separated from everything else — either by fencing or raised platforms or level crossings with barriers. I have never had to think “better look out for a train” living in these places.

Edit: Zurich does have a freight train that runs down an inner-city street a couple of times a day. It goes very slowly and has many staff monitoring:

https://youtu.be/RWT58TBAdEw

Reddit goes wrong often so I expect this outage could have any number of causes.

It is incredibly hard to deal with kids while working — for either the kind of job where you have to sit and mindlessly make widgets for 8 hours a day or the kind where you need to think and focus. Kids are not awake 100% of the time but a) when they are they demand up to and often 100% of your time, b) you don't get to decide when they are awake. As for your idea of "oh just reschedule the meeting or delay it": sure, once or twice that's fine, but if you had kids you'd know that this happens _all the time_ and feeling like a total flake who can't concentrate sucks for the parent and the employer.

(Yes, they can find a new job blah blah. I'm more concerned with your lack of empathy though.)

It seems like the only thing you're interested in is insisting that your work arrangement is the best and every other one is wrong, even when you aren't doing them or don't understand their challenges.

It is absurd that Tesla is allowed to sell cars that have this problem. Why isn't the NTSB (or whoever) insisting this is fixed and/or removing these cars from the road? They're unsafe. (I had a Tesla; glad I don't now)

My family uses them so my parents can see my kids and they are great. We plop down on the floor in front of it and everyone has a chat, sees the kids, etc. propping up phones and straining to hear/see things is much inferior.

https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/76562...

(Also worth noting: never use a float to represent dollars and cents (or whatever currency) amounts because floating point precision will get you.)

> Do you really learn that much at Facebook, do you really become that much more proficient?

I think for many there is a good chance of learning valuable skills at these companies. In my time at Meta I became a more proficient engineer by being around those who were a lot better than me, and I also got a lot better at non-technical stuff like giving people feedback, leadership, communication and so on. It's obviously not impossible that I could have learned these skills elsewhere but they are weighted heavily at Meta etc and it's more likely one will have absorbed them.

None of this is universal, of course. Any particular person might be great or terrible independent of their tenure at Meta.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-doma...

It seems .eu domains are more or less only available to people who live in the EU/EEA, hold EU/EEA citizenship or businesses that conduct business in the region.

I'm not falling on my sword to defend Facebook here, BTW. The company does a lot wrong. I just suspect it's not much worse than anyone else.

Example or sources for this claim? I spent close to a decade working there and this doesn’t sound familiar at all.

So for me, and likely most others, the title is not clickbaity and the content is not what one might expect.

I'm not claiming to have never made a similar mistake. I have messed up in production a lot. But I would definitely recognise from this episode that the lack of good tooling led to risky, rushed, manual processes that can easily go wrong.