cswilly's comments

On: Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)

[cswilly]

All of my Minitel terminals (2) were free from France Telecom. Living in France since 1982.

On: Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick

[cswilly]

I found "octave" is a direct connection of matlab using @anvaka's very cool tool: https://anvaka.github.io/vs/?query=matlab%20

On: Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’

[cswilly]

This is a possible idea for well-paid engineers. But many minimum wage people trying to get ahead appreciate the time and a half extra pay they get for working Sundays. Why would think we have a right to stop them from getting ahead by banning work on Sunday.

On: SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year

[cswilly]

I understand that SpaceX is not proposing to orbit the moon. Therefore it is more like Apollo 13. Apollo 8 orbited the moon.

[foobarbecue → cswilly]

Good point cswilly, I didn't think of that part! And yeah, I meant let's try and not explode stuff too much...

[sqeaky → cswilly]

Somehow I think the details of flyby vs orbit were not the intended subject I suspect he wants a generally smooth mission like what Apollo 8 and to avoid any unplanned rapid disassembly like what Apollo 13 had.

On: The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able to Cut Off Your Internet Access

[cswilly]

It is the same model in all of the EU. Some countries do it very well such as France. Other, such as Germany, not great, but better that the USA "open markets" solution. For proof, compare the price of Internet access in Paris and New York.

On: Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions

[cswilly]

Manual have traction control too.

On: Pardon Snowden

[cswilly]

You can put Trump at non-zero because of his very random behavior.