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  • We should always add a mental asterisk to the names of male researchers who discovered things while women were oppressed.

    That said, this meme is playing loose and fast with the specifics, which undermines that important message.


    Just picking the first one:

    Payne's work was her Ph.D. thesis and Russell did not tell her not to publish it, her advisor did. The advisor told her not to rock the boat in her thesis. This is good advice that even Einstein was given. Payne, badass, declined.

    When Russell later reproduced her research, he cited her thesis as the "most important research" he'd seen on the subject.

    The real snub with Payne is that her title was "Technical Advisor" for 20 years despite being well regarded as a full time professor. It wasn't until the 50's she was recognized as a professor, when she was also made chair of the department.

    Source: https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/cecilia-payne-profile

  • Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy
  • Did 39 people really believe this enough to upvote this? This is easily proven false. Amazon is convoluted because it's old as heck and they hire subpar engineers. Like me. I used to work on the team that made the search page. It sucks because most of us were fresh out of college and had never made a website in our lives.

  • Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy
  • Have you tried buying from aliexpress? It's the same products as on Amazon, but directly from the supplier. Imagine Amazon, but everything's 50% off.

    Source: I'm cheap as heck and buy random trash from them

  • Generative AI is reportedly tripling carbon dioxide emissions from data centers
  • God damnit not this swill again. It's not even close to triple, it's like 15%. Read. The. Reports.

    For real. Why does this misinformation keep spreading? I have the actual real numbers right in front of me now.

    And it's the same as what MIT Technology Review reported and what Google reported publicly.

    The EU's CSRD requires most of these companies to disclose their carbon emissions. So just go look it up, ya taints.

  • Why I Prefer Exceptions to Error Values
  • I see your concern, but in practice that's not what happens in languages like Java and Python with exceptions. Not checking for exceptions is a choice because everyone knows you need to check in your top-level functions. Forgetting to catch is a problem that only hits newbies.

  • Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular?
  • Zigbee or really any Bluetooth alternative.

    Bluetooth is a poorly engineered protocol. It jumps around the spectrum while transmitting, which makes it difficult and power intensive for bluetooth receivers to track.

  • Costs Less? When That Happened?
  • Yes. Supplier markup is 50% above cost, so set up a price watch and wait for it to go on clearance. You'll get it 50% off.

    I got mine new at Best Buy last year when they were clearing out M1 stock.

  • One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"
  • In summary, a bunch of 60 year old C developers with social deficits hijacking the conversation when he gives a talk or tries to get anything done. E.g. the link was people interrupting a QA session to complaining "I don't want to learn Rust".

  • Costs Less? When That Happened?
  • This post was maybe true 5 years ago, but PC laptops have really started to suck. My macbook air was only $300 and it's way better than my work's $1k+ Dell laptop in terms of performance and battery life.

  • Google Maps Timeline Data to be Stored Locally on Your Device for Privacy
    thehackernews.com Google Maps Timeline Data to be Stored Locally on Your Device for Privacy

    Starting Dec 1, 2024, Google Maps Timeline data will be stored locally on users' devices, boosting privacy.

    Google Maps Timeline Data to be Stored Locally on Your Device for Privacy

    "Google has announced plans to store Maps Timeline data locally on users' devices instead of their Google account effective December 1, 2024."

    "The development is part of a series of changes the company has enacted in response to allegations that it misled consumers and illegally tracked their movements despite turning off Location History from the account settings by taking advantage of the non-obvious Web & App Activity setting."

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