Why does the Wiki page say "citation needed" for calling her a "computer scientist, electrical engineer"?
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You're outraged that Wikipedia requires a source for the death of a public figure?
Lynn Conway has died
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
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You're outraged that Wikipedia requires a source for the death of a public figure?
No, he's outraged that someone that frequents a tech forum regularly doesn't think to check what the "citation needed" was for and that their first instinct was to post outrage bait
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're outraged that Wikipedia requires a source for the death of a public figure?
No, he's outraged that someone that frequents a tech forum regularly doesn't think to check what the "citation needed" was for and that their first instinct was to post outrage bait
Oh, that makes much more sense. I posted my comment before they elaborated on what they were saying, so the comment just said "Outrage bait, seriously: here's a screenshot.", which seemed like a direct response
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#75Why does Wikipedia not list the first spouse or children?
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#76I am actually part way through reading Mead & Conway's "Introduction to VLSI Systems" right now; I decided to go through it just for history's sake a few weeks ago. It's amazing to imagine that time period, it seemed like they were just creating so many new ideas so fast in a completely new realm; making the tools to build new processors to make the tools faster to make new processors faster... on and on and on. They published the book in 1978. We've been on that roller coaster ever since.
RIP.
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#77Why does Wikipedia not list the first spouse or children?
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#78Lynn was a real role model for me over the past 25 years. I'm sad that I never got to meet her, but her technical impact is everywhere.
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#79Not to be mistaken with John Conway, known for Conway’s game of life.
Honestly considering Lynn Conway’s Wikipedia profile mentions being a transgender activist and not knowing much about either of them, I thought maybe I’d just missed that John Conway had transitioned at some point, and had now died.
That’s what I thought.