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Given his history with addiction I wonder if he can even help himself. The way he acts is compulsive and self-destructive like he is addicted to the attention, and/or conspiracies and even on the brink of ruin he still can't shut up. I will not be surprised if he'll be back on the crack, or hitting the bottle after that.

Jobs basically had one job - be the screaming obnoxious asshole in charge who harangued the engineers until they came up with something to his liking. And then took the credit when they did. Basically just the Elon Musk of his day.

Sadly irrational thinking takes other forms. Look at MAGA, or QAnon or any other weird belief system. They all share traits with religions or cults in one sense or another.

Been reading there’s too many complications (different state for one, more red tape) for the value. They’re going for the low-hanging fruit right off, liquid money like bank accounts, working their way up from there.

I think it would make sense to seize & sell assets in New York but I bet there are some really complicated ownership deals on his properties and some will be laden with lease agreements, debt, mortgages etc. They might see Mar-a-lago as having a clean ownership making it worth the effort of going after.

Scotland absolutely fucking hates Trump so I think they would be very happy to overcome the legal friction with the sale of his Scottish courses if it came to that.

But I think most likely she'll target US properties & assets first for obvious reasons, in her own state first but anywhere is fair game - a judgement in state of New York is enforceable anywhere even if there are requirements and legal effort to "domesticate" it to target state to enforce it. I will be very amused if Mar a Lago is seized though knowing Trump he'll try to pretend the thing is his "homestead" despite it having non-residential status and he himself only living there through a loophole.

I use Twitter through a browser and ad blocker and the content is borderline dogshit as it is. I use it because inertia means the things I want to find are still represented there. But it can't be long before some major accounts move elsewhere, or deprioritize their presence. I'm thinking mainly of news orgs, but NGOs and governments might move too.

Hopefully it happens before Trump can cash in on his Truth Social deal

I wonder what would happen if Putin straight up offered to cover his debts? I expect Trump would actually accept that offer and his idiot base would see nothing wrong with it if he did.

I expect their logic is their review "curation" racket is a sideshow and the real money is selling information to agencies and sales companies.

I've never seen much reason to use a real name on Glassdoor. They demand visitors sign up to see information, and every logon it demands more details. So I am glad I used a throwaway account and I expect many others did too, or filled it in with junk. I hope their database is poisoned with garbage. I'm sure they will continue to turn the screws - using a mobile device? You MUST use our app etc. I hope people realise that LinkedIn already sucks and here is something even worse moving into the same space.

From the article that they acquired a professional social networking app so their intention is clearly to be like LinkedIn - real names, links, career history, "social". They want to monetize that information to sell to recruiters and salesmen.

So basically they're nakedly greedy and they continue to suck. I thought LinkedIn was awful but Glassdoor is a whole new level of awful.

Glassdoor is little more than a shakedown service like Yelp or Tripadvisor. It looks superficially useful but the real purpose is to suck information out of users to monetize, and extort businesses for $$$ for review "curation".

Rust isn't really OOP like C#, Java or C++ - it has structs with functions that you could consider an "object" but there is no inheritance. Instead Rust uses traits which are a little bit like interfaces in some languages.

The way the kernel is using Rust at the moment is to produce safe bindings for modules to be written in Rust, i.e. you can create a module in Rust source which will be correctly loaded up, the code is safe by default and will have access to kernel services via bindings. I expect over time that more of the kernel will become Rust, but the biggest impediment right now is Rust relies on LLVM and LLVM only supports a subset of targets that a kernel could potentially support with another compiler like gcc.

Predominantly C. But even the kernel is beginning to use Rust as a way of avoiding entire classes of programming error.

The only reason people use JS is because it's the defacto language of browsers. As a language it's dogshit filled with all kinds of unpleasant traps.

Here is a fun one I discovered the other day:

    
new Date('2022-10-9').toUTCString() === 'Sat, 08 Oct 2022 23:00:00 GMT'
new Date('2022-10-09').toUTCString() === 'Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT'

  

So padding a day of the month with a 0 or not changes the result by 1 hour. Every browser does the same so I assume this is a legacy thing. It's supposed to be padded but any sane language would throw an exception if it was malformed. Not JavaScript.

Lemmy is written in Rust. There might be bits of C at the periphery behind bindings.

Police in other countries don't face an epidemic of guns, crime, homelessness, drugs and mental health issues. If the US wasn't so dysfunctional and actually attempted to tackle these issues in a holistic way then I assume the role of cops would also change. But right now it is not that way. They are trained so if someone comes at them with a knife, or draws a weapon to threaten the cop or somebody else, they WILL shoot. Watch the body cam footage on https://www.youtube.com/@PoliceActivity/videos or the state cop channel of your choice and you'll see exactly why.

And to repeat what I said somewhere else, I'm not on the cop's side, but I am on the side of full disclosure and body cam footage to show context. I support defunding the police - although, not the name which is a fantastically stupid way to describe it - but supporting mental health services, tackling drugs & recidivism and other assistance would mean less people in these confrontations.

I've seen plenty of clips where the cops are in the wrong. Idiot cops firing pistols by accident or shooting in the absence of imminent threat. And that's why I support body worn cameras and full disclosure. Is is also why I am extremely skeptical of newspapers jumping to conclusions in the absence of the footage. It is very easy for relatives of the deceased to decry the cops as racist, or trigger happy and it be reported as such. And then the footage comes out and it shows something completely different.

Most major police forces in the US release footage of officer involved shootings. I think predominantly they show the police using lethal force appropriately. There are some occasions where they clearly don't, or where you wonder how it got to the situation where the cops were put in a position to have to defend themselves from somebody that the system could have helped.