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NotThe1Pcton I discovered I'm a tax criminal in 25 countries

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 One international subscriber = immediate tax liability Platforms offer no country filtering and no compliant alternatives Creators either: (1) unknowingly violate tax law, (2) spend $20k+/year on compliance, or (3) shut down Payment processors and platforms profit from this gap by design

This affects 100k+ U.S. creators with $1B+ in collective tax liability.

NotThe1Pcton I also do not use exceptions in C++ anymore

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.

NotThe1Pcton Just how smart is an octopus?

3x smarter than a managing director

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Insurance is an imperialist construct of the patriarchal white capitalists. Not a thing for these ideology champions.

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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 and web hits.

NotThe1Pcton Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

I read this story 15 years ago and always cite it.

Pleased to see it again

NotThe1Pcton Tesla Rolling Out Autopilot Software Updates to 1000 Cars

For a good reason - safety

NotThe1Pcton Tesla Rolling Out Autopilot Software Updates to 1000 Cars

You dont make 'over-the-air' updates on avionics buddy

NotThe1Pcton Ask HN: Password manager recommendation?

keepassx

NotThe1Pcton Tesla Rolling Out Autopilot Software Updates to 1000 Cars

BSOD is now literally a scary real possibility

It gives a new meaning to the word "crash"

NotThe1Pcton The Golden Era of Hedge Funds Draws to a Close with Clients in Revolt

Now that hedge funds ran out of things to manipulate, the swamp drained itself.

NotThe1Pcton A flight was late because someone named their Wi-Fi hotspot ‘Galaxy Note 7’

So what I was saying is "Allah has more experience"?

NotThe1Pcton A flight was late because someone named their Wi-Fi hotspot ‘Galaxy Note 7’

And don't shout "Alahu Akhbar" on a plane as well. That tends to upset people for some reason.

NotThe1Pcton IQ is only a minor factor in success

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.

NotThe1Pcton Single-file C/C++ public-domain/open source libraries with minimal dependencies

I couldnt really find anything useful in there...

NotThe1Pcton Yes, You Have Been Writing SPSC Queues Wrong

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 thinking how to solve it.

While I think the implementation per se is not that useful (I agree with you), I believe the actual trick can be reused in a different situation or type of container.

Check out the github repo now, I added a choice of allocator. That is nice because the main use of this kind of tool is when you have a slab of mapped memory that you go partitioning.

NotThe1Pcton Yes, You Have Been Writing SPSC Queues Wrong

You could use the alignas(64) specifier

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/alignas

NotThe1Pcton Yes, You Have Been Writing SPSC Queues Wrong

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 have 256GB memory available.

I've added the atomic<> in the github and updated the article as well.

However with atomic<> it adds an mfence instruction which is not really necessary and might add a ton of latency.

NotThe1Pcton Yes, You Have Been Writing SPSC Queues Wrong

My $10/mo shared host is already spinning with ycomb+linkedin traffic. I shall upgrade...

NotThe1Pcton I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years

Me too, back in 2005 we were already doing all this. Also there is an easy hack that solves the overflow part.

NotThe1Pcton Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger you?

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 content of the degrees but the fact that there is probably 2x as much graduates being thrown in the market than there are jobs.

NotThe1Pcton Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger you?

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 spam your CV to every corner of the world.

They will lie to you to make you sign it.

They will make you feel worthless so you can accept a lower package.

NotThe1Pcton A Taste of Haskell

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.

NotThe1Pcton An empirical study on the impact of C++ lambdas and programmer experience

I have used lambdas heavily in the past and then stopped. Getting away from the rabbit hole that are lambdas + SFINAE + variadics increases productivity immensely.