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I recommend reading Lynn's story, written in her own words: https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/RetrospectiveT.html https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway
by mlsu 2y ago
I recommend reading Lynn's story, written in her own words:
https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/RetrospectiveT.html https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/RetrospectiveT.html
It is amazing, tragic, and triumphant in so many ways.
- barbazoo 2y agoThanks for sharing! In case anyone knows, what's the best way to get this to be readable on an e-reader? Haven't found a PDF yet, probably exporting into a PDF is the easiest since it's only a couple dozen pages maybe?!
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- lye 2y agoSave as HTML with images and run through Calibre: $ ebook-convert index.html book.epub Here are the files if you trust a rando on the internet. Since they're just ZIP archives, you can unpack and inspect both to make sure there's no JS there. .mobi looks fine on my Kindle. https://0x0.st/Xc8M.epub https://0x0.st/Xc8M.epub https://0x0.st/Xc8B.mobi https://0x0.st/Xc8B.mobi
- barbazoo 2y ago> if you trust a rando on the internet Why did you say that, now I have to check the files :) Thank you
- ballooney 2y agoA comment when an upvote would do - this is the kind of small act of generosity that I wish to acknowledge and praise in prose - thank you for taking the couple of minutes to do this. I've been feeling a little bleak about the internet lately as the SNR plummets in the tidal wave of AI seo search results, AI comments, etc. Thank you for taking the trouble. I went to EMFCamp in the UK a couple of weeks ago and had a similar resurgence in enthusiasm about simple things like asking a question of someone and getting an above-and-beyond, going-out-of-their-way response to share their enthusiasm and knowledge about something with you. We must defend these pockets of human interaction. [brought to you after a boozy work lunch but the sentiment is genuine].
- disqard 2y agoA bit meta, but your response is part of boosting that SNR, in the best way possible. We already saw the front-page discussion about "slop", but we don't have to let it wash over all of us, all of the time. Thank you (and GP) for doing your part!
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- michaelmior 2y agoMediaWiki2Latex can convert to ePub. https://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/ https://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/
- AdmiralAsshat 2y agoIf you've got a Kobo, Pocket seems to recognize it as an article (it often doesn't) and renders it well enough. EDIT: Nevermind, Pocket only captures the preface (first four minutes, basically).
- spencerchubb 2y agoIncredible "The fact that I started a new career all over again, at the bottom of the ladder, after being fired by IBM and rejected by family and friends . . . may also give hope to others trapped in similar situations."
- brailsafe 2y agoThanks for calling that out, I'd like to read more about how that went. I'm considering what the best move for me is now, obviously with the terrible market and obscene competition, whether to try and leverage the amalgamation of skills I've built up and just push harder as a contractor, or pivot entirely down the meme path of trying trades. Being in her situation would perhaps be more wildly more difficult, but for different reasons and in different circumstances. What also struck me about that snippet of the story, is that the context for what a career meant might have been a bit different than now. A career at one single company seems like quite a rarity these days, and we wouldn't necessarily consider it to be a career restart if you're just going to another company, unless you're perhaps of a certain generation.
- zztop44 2y agoIf you’re changing your name and identity, don’t have a network, and can’t put any previous experience on your CV, I think that would absolutely qualify as a career restart today, even if you’re in the same broad industry and using many of the same skills.
- reddalo 2y agoSpeaking of changing name and identity, Wikipedia doesn't have any information about her original name. It's strange that this information is missing, from a purely encyclopedic point of view. In fact, I cannot even find this information on the web.
- defrost 2y agoAdressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650380 and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Gender_identity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Gend...
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- meifun 2y agoThank you for sharing!! Fascinating and really helpful to those of us who are undergoing our own gender transitions!
- max_ 2y agoSame link without SSL errors: https://archive.is/zVIWu https://archive.is/zVIWu
- nerdponx 2y agoInterestingly the cert expired just a few days ago.
- skeeter2020 2y agoa fitting epitath? Here lies xyz; their cert expired without renewal
- nuancebydefault 2y ago[dead]
- nineplay 2y agoI appreciate her making the effort to tell her story. I struggle sometimes to understand what it means when people say they feel born in the wrong gender. They way she describes it - not just about wanting to do 'girl' things but wanting to be soft and round and feminine - is eye-opening for me.
- PartiallyTyped 2y agoI read around reddit of experiences of people who wore VR headsets and played a character of the other gender. The NPCs treated them as such, but they themselves experienced gender incongruence. Their internal identity was at mismatch with how the NPCs treated them, and that helped them understand what gender dysphoria means.
- skeeter2020 2y agoif the NPCs can do this in a non trivial way it could be a really powerful experience.
- chroma 2y agoCan you link to the post about that? Because I’m guessing there’s a selection effect where only those who had profound experiences commented. I’ve done similar things in VR and found it wasn’t any different than when I had a robot body or a cartoon carrot body. Yes the new body is strange and interesting in some ways, but on an emotional level it’s like driving a different car.
- PartiallyTyped 2y agoIt's not about the body itself but about how the universe treated the player. Unfortunately I don't think VR will ever have enough bandwidth to provide an experience equivalent to Sword Art Online, ie full body immersion. I will see if I can find them again.
- pseudalopex 2y ago> Can you link to the post about that? Because I’m guessing there’s a selection effect where only those who had profound experiences commented. They didn't say everyone experienced it. > I’ve done similar things in VR and found it wasn’t any different than when I had a robot body or a cartoon carrot body. Did characters treat you as not man and not woman? And not in the way most English is gender neutral? It seems not similar otherwise.
- neonate 2y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20240309142149/https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/RetrospectiveT.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240309142149/https://ai.eecs.u...
- btown 2y agoThank you so, so much for this link. Her creativity and bravery, and the way they're intertwined, is so incredibly inspiring. (FYI: Readers should note that content warnings for self-harm apply in Part II.)
- mean_pigeon 2y agoBetter to share the non-ssl link: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/RetrospectiveT.html http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/RetrospectiveT.html