Dating a transfemme, lovely lovely person., she will appreciate if I send this her way to show strength and pioneer paths of previous generations, and that there are no limits to what she can aspire to be!
Lynn Conway's Story (2000)
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Re: Lynn Conway's Story (2000)
#42I read her whole retrospective last summer and it was the story that made me feel like I not only had a place as a trans woman in science, but could be ambitious as well! Retrospective: https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/RetrospectiveT.html It also so charming to see other trans people here on hacker news celebrating Lynn Conway. I didn't know there were so many of us here!
Small joke:
- Q: What do you call a group of trans people
- A: The IT team
:)
Yes there are many of us
Re: Lynn Conway's Story (2000)
#43That would have been an impressive career whether she was trans or not.
Not just one but TWO impressive careers. She invented superscalar CPUs in her first career, was brutally fired by IBM for being trans, then rebooted her life in stealth from scratch, and not only invented but wrote the book on and taught VLSI design to a whole generation of designers, including industry giants like Guy L Steele and James H Clark (among many others). She serves as incontrovertible proof of how utterly…
Some people, who do not normally pay attention to this kind of issue, are shocked when they learn the extent of the knuckle-draggers' abuse. It is worthwhile noting that in 2023, in the US alone, no less than 566 anti-trans bills have been proposed in 49 states.
This goes far beyond hate speech, actively criminalizing the existence of trans people.
Re: Lynn Conway's Story (2000)
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have information on what you're working on? It might help me or my friends (though I don't know if it would also help with trauma and running into hurtful roadblocks and struggling just trying to function at a basic adult level).
It's a little JS tool that collates and autofills (to the extent possible) all the documents you need. It only works for Michigan, my home state, but I'm developing a system to hopefully ease the other 49.
Are you filling out PDF forms using Chromium or Edge's PDF viewer? How are you programatically filling and saving/printing documents? I struggled quite hard with inter-PDF-viewer incompatibilities and rendering errors on (legacy?) XFA forms, not being able to save PDFs with Adobe unless I paid for Acrobat Pro, etc.
Re: Lynn Conway's Story (2000)
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a little JS tool that collates and autofills (to the extent possible) all the documents you need. It only works for Michigan, my home state, but I'm developing a system to hopefully ease the other 49.
Are you filling out PDF forms using Chromium or Edge's PDF viewer? How are you programatically filling and saving/printing documents? I struggled quite hard with inter-PDF-viewer incompatibilities and rendering errors on (legacy?) XFA forms, not being able to save PDFs with Adobe unless I paid for Acrobat Pro, etc.
Contact me at [first initial][last name without diacritics]@proton.me and we can talk shop.
Re: Lynn Conway's Story (2000)
#46https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31758139 Lynn Conway, co-author along with Carver Mead of "the textbook" on VLSI design, "Introduction to VLSI Systems", created and taught this historic VLSI Design Course in 1978, which was the first time students designed and fabricated their own integrated circuits: >"Importantly, these weren’t just any designs, for many pushed the envelope of system architecture. Jim Clark, f…
A shout-out and thank-you to the transphobes who downvoted this without replying and explaining why they hate trans people so much, proving my point that they know they're wrong and don't have a leg to stand on to justify their bigotry, because their arguments and justifications for their hatred won't withstand scrutiny. If I've convinced them to finally shut the fuck up and instead just silently downvote in shame wi…
You're deranged.