The discussion on Hacker News is quite good, with retrospectives from people who met her or were influenced by her work. And entirely positive that I could see. (I only read to the end of the...
The discussion on Hacker News is quite good, with retrospectives from people who met her or were influenced by her work. And entirely positive that I could see. (I only read to the end of the first page,)
I saw that after I posted here! I was surprised by the positivity over there, and ther stories were great, because in the past they had been rather strangely (for tech) hostile to the queer...
I saw that after I posted here!
I was surprised by the positivity over there, and ther stories were great, because in the past they had been rather strangely (for tech) hostile to the queer community.
Overall, I have noticed more and more that the negative and prejudiced seems to be driven out faster and more effectively, partially in thanks to @/dang's more focused moderating lately on positivity I feel. Maybe even because the community in the past few years has become far more technology and academic focused than the bro-core cult-of-productivity startup hustle culture that was dominant everywhere around 2011-2017.
Just don't go into any comments on economics, or social policies, the putrid like to hang out in there.
Edit: I just took a look at all the flagged and deleted comments (you can turn it on in settings) and It's (un)reasonably bad as expected, but moderated really well. One of the longest ones that at first seemed to be anti-trans rant was actually pro-trans rights, it just kind of sounded like a LLM response so it was flagged lol.
Addendum: A good portion of the 'removed' comments are actually arguing over Wikipedia moderation rules based on sourcing for changing "is" -> "was", and the proper way of viewing the source and...
Addendum: A good portion of the 'removed' comments are actually arguing over Wikipedia moderation rules based on sourcing for changing "is" -> "was", and the proper way of viewing the source and taking part in the conversation on Wikipedia. Why this was happening in the comments on HN, no idea, that's why it was removed.
Incredibly sad news about an incredibly brilliant engineer. I decided this was a better fit in ~tech than ~lgbt because she was much more than just a trans woman and would likely prefer being...
Incredibly sad news about an incredibly brilliant engineer.
I decided this was a better fit in ~tech than ~lgbt because she was much more than just a trans woman and would likely prefer being remembered as the engineer and scientist more.
The Wikipedia article has a better explanation than anything I could write about her primary accomplishments:
She worked at IBM in the 1960s and invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advance used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance. She initiated the Mead–Conway VLSI chip design revolution in very large scale integrated (VLSI) microchip design. That revolution spread rapidly through the research universities and computing industries during the 1980s, incubating an emerging electronic design automation industry, spawning the modern 'foundry' infrastructure for chip design and production, and triggering a rush of impactful high-tech startups in the 1980s and 1990S.
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When in PARC, Conway founded the "multiproject wafers" (MPW). This new technology made it possible to pack multiple circuit designs from various sources into one single silicon wafer.
The discussion on Hacker News is quite good, with retrospectives from people who met her or were influenced by her work. And entirely positive that I could see. (I only read to the end of the first page,)
I saw that after I posted here!
I was surprised by the positivity over there, and ther stories were great, because in the past they had been rather strangely (for tech) hostile to the queer community.
Overall, I have noticed more and more that the negative and prejudiced seems to be driven out faster and more effectively, partially in thanks to @/dang's more focused moderating lately on positivity I feel. Maybe even because the community in the past few years has become far more technology and academic focused than the bro-core cult-of-productivity startup hustle culture that was dominant everywhere around 2011-2017.
Just don't go into any comments on economics, or social policies, the putrid like to hang out in there.
Edit: I just took a look at all the flagged and deleted comments (you can turn it on in settings) and It's (un)reasonably bad as expected, but moderated really well. One of the longest ones that at first seemed to be anti-trans rant was actually pro-trans rights, it just kind of sounded like a LLM response so it was flagged lol.
Also, I’m guessing they’re more strict about moderating obituaries.
Addendum: A good portion of the 'removed' comments are actually arguing over Wikipedia moderation rules based on sourcing for changing "is" -> "was", and the proper way of viewing the source and taking part in the conversation on Wikipedia. Why this was happening in the comments on HN, no idea, that's why it was removed.
Incredibly sad news about an incredibly brilliant engineer.
I decided this was a better fit in ~tech than ~lgbt because she was much more than just a trans woman and would likely prefer being remembered as the engineer and scientist more.
The Wikipedia article has a better explanation than anything I could write about her primary accomplishments: