Sometimes I like to think that Ada was rebelling against her stodgy ol’ dad, and that computers were literally born in an act of teenage rebellion. I have found no evidence to back up this fantasy.
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What we do know is that Lord Byron abandoned the family pretty early, and Lady Byron, who was such a math wiz she was known as “the princess of parallelograms” trained Ada heavily in mathematics, partially in hopes that this would help her avoid the flaws her father had.
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yeah this only seems ironic if one is deeply misinformed about what the luddites actually were and how they operated
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the luddites' fight was over wages and working conditions. in some actions they actually smashed some stocking-frames and left others right next to them intact, because they were owned by men who agreed to pay "just" prices for the work.
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That’s a pretty drastic downplay of the technological aspect. Automated looms allowed factories to employ less skilled laborers to get the same quality of work, rendering their training worthless. This was illegal because of the credentialing system, not for practical reasons.
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So that’s like saying “I have nothing against Uber drivers I just think only people with taxi medallions should be able to drive,” which is, in effect, fighting against Uber/automated frames because of what they do to labor prices
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pretty sure the mom gave birth but ok
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You got me there
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“People often meet their fate on the road they took to avoid it.”
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if I was Byron's daughter I would have devoted my life to advancing everything he hated too
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That would explain why the first print command used "Fuck You, Dad!" instead of "Hello World!"
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That's called, um, poetic justice.
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I suppose in hindsight it's easy to see how the industrial revolution should lift so many out of poverty. Maybe not so obvious when living through it as a poor factory worker.
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Sometimes you just gotta rebel against your parents
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