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New comment by esterna in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

esterna — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:26:17 +0000

And yet we cannot stop time, and a decision has to be made. It seems natural to involve the child in this decision.

Of course, the next best thing (if a decision can't be made now) after stopping time are puberty blockers. Which are not completely without risks, but this applies to the other two options just as well (if not more so).

You can't not make decisions, and to claim so is to frame choosing one particular option as not-a-decision.

New comment by esterna in "Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I)"

esterna — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:24:17 +0000

Very nice! One small note: In an Eratosthenes sieve, you can start crossing out numbers from p^2, since i*p for i

  for (size_t i=2; i <= 0xFFFFFFFF / p; i++) {

  for (size_t i=p; i <= 0xFFFFFFFF / p; i++) {

New comment by esterna in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

esterna — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:10:45 +0000

I also live in the EU. betfair.com is not blocked by my ISP here. Rather, they are blocking my ISP ("[...] you may be accessing the Betfair website from a country that Betfair does not accept bets from [...]"). That the website not only prevents betting but also does not show any odds is a technical decision on their part. Gambling regulation is also usually domestic, and not EU law.

Websites deciding EU users are not valuable enough to comply with GDPR is, as you say, also not censorship. It is again the technical decision of some website owners to provide their content only in conjunction with illegal processing of your data.

I have not had issues accessing torrent indices from the EU. This too is usually handled domestically and has little to do with the EU.

There is legitimately dangerous (current and upcoming) EU legislation (Chat Control, eIDAS, age verification, previously the Data Retention Directive), so I don't think it necessary to weaken your argument by listing non-examples.

New comment by esterna in "Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch"

esterna — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:10:52 +0000

Do you have advice how I could get someone to do a (possibly paid) review of PCBs for small hobby projects?

Being new to this space, it's hard to learn quickly when the feedback cycle involves having PCBs manufactured, shipped, soldering them and then finding out what could have been better. (Or it works and you never find out what you did wasn't the right way to do it)

New comment by esterna in "It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change"

esterna — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:51:39 +0000

Isn't that in violation of GDPR?