• Synctrex@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    “working as a server” - I have to get rid of thinking everything is about computers…

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      1 year ago

      For a second I wondered if it was an old timey job, similar to how one could be employed as a computer.

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        I mean, you needed someone to crunch non-financial numbers before machines were invented to do that. A major discovery in astronomy (the relationship between period and luminosity) that’s central to how we measure distances in space was actually made by a woman doing that job (Henrietta Swan Leavitt). If she’d lived a few years longer she likely would have won the Nobel for it.