I am Roman

I was aware of implicit function pointer dereference rules in C. However, I somehow missed that explicit dereference is a bit magical as well.

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C++11 has this neat feature: static objects are initialized in a thread-safe manner. This is yet another post on how it is done.

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This is a brief followup to my post on stock advice spam from 2017.03.20. Let’s see how the scheme worked out.

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Upwork is probably the leading international freelancing platform. Although it is often regarded as a source of cheap labor and low-quality projects, it is still de-facto the biggest and most influential resource (please correct me if I am wrong). And it fails every week or so.

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One might notice I am not a native English speaker. From time to time I discover new things that catch my attention. Discovery for today:

Busyness

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Anyone who has to deal with filesystems probably agrees that the last thing the world needs is another mostly-but-not-quite compatible FAT variant. I mean, take a look at the Design of the FAT file system Wiki page. The amount of cruft accumulated over the decades of its existence is impressive. And a few years back, Samsung apparently decided to join in on the fun. Enter BTFS.

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I received a fascinating piece of spam today. We’re all used to Nigerian princes offering a share of their wealth for no obvious reasons, or dying billionaires with no heirs looking to give their millions to strangers. Anyways, this is something new (to me). A benevolent stranger offers everyone to earn over 1000% in a matter of a week. INCT is traded OTC and what’s interesting, the stock price mentioned in the letter is correct (source: Reuters): [Read More]

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