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Apparently Never Gonna Give you Up by Rick Astley has been recommended here in Hacker News at least once.

I followed a twit and I saw that the upload to sourceforge was very recent. Maybe somebody just uploaded a copy? I was also misled then, sorry about that.

Sad news, looks like everybody's favorite for data analysis is python.

I actually would like to downgrade my brother printer's firmware. I have 3rd party ink cartridges and the printer stopped accepting them after an upgrade. In this day and age, looks like new versions of firmware are not fixing problems but introducing limitations.

This is really interesting!

One of the things that fascinates me is that after studied and used probability and statistics, quantum physics seems to have a different approach to the world of probability. The only common point I find is that the probability of an event must bee somewhere between 0 and 1, and that's it, that's the only one.

It lost one eye, but that's ok, it still has two left.

Terminator timelines are somehow confusing. Fear not, this is easily explained in this video from RedLetterMedia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXJiSZhA5cg

I think I should add that Cloudflare (based on USA) doesn't refuse to block those IPTV, but they require the block mandate to come through a United States court. La Liga believes that this is pointless, by the time that has happened the match would have been over weeks ago. So they asked a Spanish judge to allow them to compile a list of IPs and send them to the Spanish ISPs to block them. Of course the ISPs are forced to comply. Well, behind these Cloudflare's IPs is not just IPTV, but a lot of legitimate webpages.

Russia low GDP is actually not true. In real terms is bigger than Germany's.

People are so creative.

I immidiately thought of ggplot's geom_jitter.

I reckon that the best way to stop spam calls (and messages) is to start charging for them again. No more flat rates. The scheme that I have in mind is to charge a small amount to the caller and give it to the recipient. I reckon that the balance between groups of friends or family would be zero. Companies surely could pay this money but spammers won't be able to explore a whole list of numbers to try to fish a victim.

And even before that, during Roman times, it was called Mauritania Hispania and it was considered part of Hispania. We are talking about millennia of history here backing up that Ceuta is part of Spain.

It is not. It's an integral part of Spain, and their citizens have exactly the same rights than the rest of us. They also have representation at the parliament. Ceuta has been part of Spain before Morocco existed, there's no claim they can make. It even went back to Roman times, when the territory was called Mauritania Hispania. That included the Riff, so if anybody needs to return any territory that would be Morocco.

Temporarily limit the size of data fields at the consensus level, in order to correct distorted incentives caused by standardizing support for arbitrary data, and to refocus priorities on improving Bitcoin as money.

Again, assuming separation of powers: In a democracy, ministries are part of the executive branch. Their role is to follow and implement the law, not to judge violations.

If a law is violated, then a judge, and not a ministry, should be the one to enforce it.

When an administrative body blocks access to a service without prior judicial oversight, it blurs the line between the executive and the judiciary. And since separation of powers is a key component of any democracy, this raises legitimate concerns about the quality of democratic checks and balances.

Just to be clear: I’m not arguing that unlicensed online gambling sites should remain accessible. The issue is how the restriction is carried out, and whether it respects democratic principles and institutional roles.

> Spain's Consumer Rights Ministry temporarily banned so-called prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi [..]

Why a ministry has the authority to do so? What I don't like about my country, and the whole UE, is the lack of democracy. And this is a good example.

A democracy needs to have real separations of powers. The legislative body creates a law, and the judiciary, based on that law, will decide on banning or not the online gambling site.

A ministry belongs to the executive branch of the Estate. It is not up to them to decide whether something is illegal or not.

What I didn't get from the video is that there's a differential, but it is not connected to the wheels. Is there a second differential that connects MG1 to the wheels?

"Alzheimer’s disease is a condition of the elderly, and they’re on their way out anyway." That's a such a protestant way of thinking. It contrasts very much with the catholic culture of southern Europe. I am not saying that is better or worse, but I think it is a very clear example of how different the culture is across the UE. One key aspect is how to look after your elders.

I wonder what the z8000 and vax commands do. I can imagine the first is related to the 16bit Zilog processor and the second to the vax OS, but no idea how to use them or what are they for.

So Cursor to the moon?

"Repeaters are included every 40-80 km to keep the signal strong."

Does it mean that there's a ton of repeaters under the sea? Where do they get the power from?

I always found interesting that you can bet on Polymarket whether Jesus Christ will come back before 2027 or not. At the moment, you can bet $96.20 to win $100 that he won't.

That goes for me?

They have released the draft for IPv8 two days ago: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

Does it mean we better put our chips on IPv8?