What I would really like to see is the emulation of telephone network over internet so that we could all continue using our old modems and retro computers and setup real BBSs with real (or simulated) modems. We all want to hear the real modem sounds and see the lights flashing.
I would like everyone to still use their retro computers and retro modems (!). Because no-one has land lines anymore, we would need some devices and software to emulate the land-line and telephone network over the internet (IP-protocol). Probably VoIP stuff.
I would like to ATDT9834982 and have that magically connect over the internet to some other guy's retro modem that has registered that number in this virtual telephone network over the internet. His modem would receive the proper ring indication and the BBS would ATA.
This should not depend on any telephone operators.
If someone wants to use a software modem, that would be fine, but real modems would be the point of this whole thing.
It can be argued that Z3 was not as general purpose (Turing complete) as ENIAC.
"The Z3 was demonstrated in 1998 to be, in principle, Turing-complete. However, because it lacked conditional branching, the Z3 only meets this definition by speculatively computing all possible outcomes of a calculation."
It does. There are some who would argue that the Linux copyright fight is already resolved because of the SCO suits, but that's wrong because
A: some of those suits are still ongoing, and
B: the suits never alleged infringement based on the API alone, SCO was claiming that Linux copied functional code in multiprocessing modules (we don't know which functions because they demand secrecy, even though it's open source).
Not even SCO, trolls that they are, were insane enough to claim that the APIs themselves are copyrighted.
The term is “medical gaslighting” and seems to disproportionately affect women. It comes up with things like ‘chronic fatigue’ diagnosis and has to do with women’s symptoms and experiences being dismissed.
It's a dual problem IMO- women are dismissed due to unconscious bias sometimes I'm sure, but I also suspect there are medical issues out there that are much more common in women that have been so under-researched that we know basically nothing about them. Which does make it a hard problem for front line doctors.
Yes, it's statistically true that women are questioned more often than men about (among other things) whether their symptoms are "real", are psychosomatic, are caused by the thing they think they're caused by, etc. It's totally appropriate to point that out, as gdubs did, and to remind people that unconscious bias is a thing.
It's another thing to just tell someone they've questioned a woman in a way they wouldn't have questioned a man, without knowing anything more about them. It's obviously incorrect that men are never questioned in the same fashion or that this line of questioning is always inappropriate. It's generally unknowable what would have happened in the same situation with reversed genders. What do you think is gained by this kind of specific, confident accusation? Do you think they're going to say "oh, I thought about this, and you're right, I was being sexist, thanks, all better now?" No! Everyone digs into their positions, flamewars erupt, reputations are damaged, and/or people think (correctly, IMHO) that accusations of sexism are often false, etc. And I don't think you're following the HN guidelines of assuming good faith.
Personally, I have no idea if the author's symptoms are caused by the environmental conditions at the building site. The evidence presented isn't compelling. She has made a compelling case though that gathering this evidence is hard, if not impossible, due to broken regulatory structures.
This is a forum with a bunch of (pseudo) technophiles. I'd expect them to be more, rather than less, inclined to believe someone who got sensors and other data together. The expressed skepticism isn't gender motivated.
