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dixie_land··on Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters
And if they handled the resignation like a professional, it is not uncommon to simply get the job back.

I've left one of the big FANGs for an opportunity that I thought was better, but did not pan out, when I emailed my old (skip) boss about how to re-interview for my old team, he simply asked "when do you want to start?" (Even get new sign on RSUs)

dixie_land··on Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID
That part confused me too. I think I have the same ultra wide monitor and it indeed runs 144 on windows. The article ever explained why it is "unsupported" under Linux
dixie_land··on The Mexican Air Force no longer has any fighter aircraft in its inventory (2016)
Old does not necessarily mean obsolete, A-10 still beats F-35s by a large margin on the job it's assigned to do, and cheaper
dixie_land··on To tackle highest housing costs, hawaii's gov declares YIMBY martial law
I wonder if this will backfire and make it a land grab for developers to build new luxury vacation homes/resorts for the express purpose of Airbnb them out
dixie_land··on Hackers can use credit bureaus to dox nearly anyone in America
So in a sense they do care :)
dixie_land··on Why This “Zero Calorie Sweetener” Isn’t Zero Calories
The takeaway is as far as labeling is concerned, any food is zero calories if the serving size is sufficiently small.
dixie_land··on The back-to-office backfire: Companies ending WFH perks lose out on top talent
It is not when you look back and realize Dan has been WFH whenever he wants all this time, even before the whole Covid thing
dixie_land··on Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
my 2 cents:

w3schools tend to oversimplify the concepts to the point of technical inaccuracy.

and the tone of the articles read more like tutorials instead of reference manuals.

dixie_land··on Cowboy rides to the rescue of VanMoof owners with app to unlock threatened bikes
that's exactly what I was picturing https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dsq_jZiB1_U&t=47
dixie_land··on H-1B fraud consultancies grow, with application abuse openly discussed online
Yup. That aligns with the intention of the visa too: getting highly skilled workers. And compensation is the most objective measure of that.
dixie_land··on Longcat
I like how See Also links to another interesting article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_and_the_Internet
dixie_land··on FAA to require secondary cockpit barrier on commercial airplanes
I've seen them on a recent flight on a Delta A339. When the flight attendants send meals to the pilots it comically looked like a prison for them.
dixie_land··on iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on
> As a partial mitigation, Apple is enabling an alternative way for advertisers to measure campaign success, with Private Click Measurement ad attribution now available in Safari Private Browsing mode. Private Click Measurement allows advertisers to track ad campaign conversion metrics, but does not reveal individual user activity.

While as a consumer I do objectively like the privacy measures Apple is adding, at end of the day they're simply consolidating all tracking power to themselves.

dixie_land··on Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly
Don't forget Super PACs! /s
dixie_land··on Roblox: Ten-year-old spent £2.5k of mum's money without her knowing
John Oliver had an interesting segment on timeshares and argues timeshare exit companies are even bigger scams:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd2bbHoVQSM

dixie_land··on Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
I could agree more! Irregardless of what words actually mean we should just use whatever we want.
dixie_land··on LVMH becomes the first European company to surpass $500B in market value
Bellevue === Little Peking
dixie_land··on I just learned about HTML redirects (2020)
Now do <blink> :)
dixie_land··on Maps show how parking lots “eat” U.S. cities
> Americans like their property private and would even guard it with a rifle

There's a reason we call our abode our own "neck of the woods" :)

dixie_land··on WebKit Features in Safari 16.4
I'm a bit surprised no one has brought up the issue with App Library support (or rather, the lack thereof) yet.

When you "install" an PWA, you can only keep it on the Home Screen, while native apps can be removed from Home Screen (not uninstalled) and only shown in the library

dixie_land··on Tech entrepreneurship and shifting sentiment
Your observation about the culture being worse is accurate, but none of them are caused by tech.
dixie_land··on Newfound Asteroid May Strike Earth in 2046, NASA Says
It's time, let's send in Bruce Willis
dixie_land··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Who put them in charge? Like literally, the institution of a central bank is unconstitutional
dixie_land··on LastPass breach could've been stopped with a 3-year-old Plex update
also why would you ever _want_ to access work from a personal computer to begin with
dixie_land··on Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?
One of reasons WeChat and WhatsApp became popular in low income countries first, was that in those countries SMS were/are charged PER MESSAGE
dixie_land··on Lawsuits Block Thousands of Seattle Homes, $39M for Affordable Housing
Because we're better than them. We're a free market and that is that. We don't judge people by where they come from.
dixie_land··on Ongoing Incident in Google Cloud
Yup we saw the exact same symptoms with some GCLBs getting 100% 502 ( our upstream QPS graph looks scary with 5 mins of 0 QPS )
dixie_land··on How to protect your career from a ChatGPT Future
Are you implying Java or Python is somehow better than C?
dixie_land··on 95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority
> The homeowners are the ones getting rich.

If it's not an investment property then homeowners don't get any benefits from higher home value other than a larger tax bill.

dixie_land··on American Dream For Rent: Investors elbow out individual home buyers
Then let the market decide not the government
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