This made my day. Gen Z gives this geriatric millennial hope for the future.

Let's not forget that BTK killer worked for them installing alarm systems for people who wanted protection against the BTK killer.

The source is mostly anecdotal: my wife worked for Amazon in Germany. They don't actually break the law but they treat employees extremely poorly [by German standards]. Strikes are frequent and unionization is coming, so things are bound to change.

If you Google for amazon deutschland betriebsrat and similar terms you will find a myriad of articles on the topic.

You can verify that trust by looking at how the employee performs over an extended period of time. There's no need to verify it every 30 minutes.

Despite the strict German labor laws, Amazon's warehouses in Germany get away with as much as they possibly can and some more.

I live abroad (in Europe) and Facebook is the main concentration point for expats from my home country. The groups will often have hundreds of thousands of expats and most of the time it's the easiest & fastest way of getting information on virtually any topic relevant to expat life.

Here in Germany the word Meister, which is the German word for master, is used in so many contexts to mean someone who is responsible for, or specialist in something, that it would be impossible to avoid it completely. For example, the landlord or the one responsible for janitorial services in a building is the Hausmeister. A professional house painter is a Malermeister. The (almost mythical) chap that comes once an year to clean the chimney is a Schornsteinfegermeister.

anyone under the age threshold found with a cellphone with up to one year in prison

The theory being that a year in prison will be less harmful than phone use?

If we had a 1% battery improvement to market for every "major breakthrough" we see in the news, we wouldn't even need the breakthroughs.

I'm starting to feel like I should pay $11.99 a month to subscribe to YouTube Premium

Sounds like it's working as intended

First of all they are not building and running anything. It is interpreted server side code and front end code that gets loaded by the target browser at runtime.

It's been a while since Facebook ran on simple PHP files and static JavaScript.

if it was code that gets built they would build on the server

Yes, this is what they're describing in the article.

You simply have no idea how software development work

I'm not disputing that, but I do work for Facebook, and (anecdotally) I find that my beefy dev server helps a lot for my large builds and runs.

A network mount is not a good solution for working with massive server software in a monorepo.

You end up downloading a hundred gigabytes of source material across millions of files, with the associated latency of on-demand access, just to build and run on laptop hardware.

Would you be willing to bring me a club sandwich with fries for less than $3-5?

The first post that's not about how technology is dumb and how 1080p ought to be enough for everyone.

I wish I had mod points.

Caffeine pills are $0.05 each on Amazon. I'm surprised you're trying to save that cost.