NotThe1Pct

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I discovered I'm a tax criminal in 25 countries(gist.github.com)
1 points by NotThe1Pct 8mo ago|1 comments
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by NotThe1Pct 8mo ago
Every major creator platform (Substack, ConvertKit, Beehiiv, etc.) uses Stripe exclusively and blocks merchant-of-record alternatives. This creates a systematic trap: Digital service sales have zero VAT/GST thresholds in most countries
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Cloudfare: The Rust Community Knew This Was Coming(lucisqr.substack.com)
5 points by NotThe1Pct 11mo ago|1 comments
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by NotThe1Pct 3y ago
The cost of exceptions is a typical server platform is so high that even very small chances of it happening is enough to throw a low latency application off its rails.
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I also do not use exceptions in C++ anymore(lucisqr.substack.com)
4 points by NotThe1Pct 3y ago|3 comments
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The creator of C++ Bjarne Stroustrup has been banned from Reddit
7 points by NotThe1Pct 6y ago|0 comments
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
3x smarter than a managing director
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
Insurance is an imperialist construct of the patriarchal white capitalists. Not a thing for these ideology champions.
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
If you feed people in a public setting you need a perm, which is fairly easy to get. My guess they didn't even bother to comply with local ordinances. So lame I think this was made just to trigger a police reaction for political gain a
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
I read this story 15 years ago and always cite it. Pleased to see it again
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
For a good reason - safety
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
You dont make 'over-the-air' updates on avionics buddy
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
keepassx
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
BSOD is now literally a scary real possibility It gives a new meaning to the word "crash"
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
Now that hedge funds ran out of things to manipulate, the swamp drained itself.
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
So what I was saying is "Allah has more experience"?
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
And don't shout "Alahu Akhbar" on a plane as well. That tends to upset people for some reason.
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
Willingness to cross the line between crime and honesty appears to be the major factor behind success, to me. Every successful company has a dark side.
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The case for passing small structs by value in C/C++(vitorian.com)
2 points by NotThe1Pct 10y ago|0 comments
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
I couldnt really find anything useful in there...
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
Quite frankly I wrote this more like an exercise. I have never used it in practice other than the github test. I saw people picking up on the other post and didn't really like the indices going unbounded. Then I spent a few minutes thi
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
You could use the alignas(64) specifier http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/alignas
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
Yes, it's not meant to be production ready. Still, the padding you added is particular to Intel/AMD CPUs and this article is more about constrained memory/embedded. On Intel you would not care about the missing slot when you
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
My $10/mo shared host is already spinning with ycomb+linkedin traffic. I shall upgrade...
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Yes, You Have Been Writing SPSC Queues Wrong(vitorian.com)
49 points by NotThe1Pct 10y ago|31 comments
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
Me too, back in 2005 we were already doing all this. Also there is an easy hack that solves the overflow part.
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
I find that refreshing. But for 50% of liberal arts majors, under and unemployment is a hard reality. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/53-of-re... The problem is not intrinsically the
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Look at this Modern Sausage(linkedin.com)
2 points by NotThe1Pct 10y ago|0 comments
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
DO NOT TALK TO RECRUITERS. They hate you because you have skills and they usually failed in their careers (or have a liberal arts degree, which is even worse). They will record and make public whatever you told in private. They will blanket
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by NotThe1Pct 10y ago
I tried haskell queues a while ago - under the advice of a friend and compared with a straightforward C++ queue - it was about 100x slower. Abandoned the idea.

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