Vorbei
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You might have seen the first ever photographed image of a black hole that came out over the last few days. Science and human understanding takes a step forward, we get that bit closer to unravelling the mysteries of the universe. But all of this pales in comparison to the fact that it was a woman who developed the algorithm that allowed the image to be captured. Naturally, rddit and the usual suspects are ecstatic, this is a big win for female representation in science and technology.
But are things as they seem to be? Let's have a look the breakdown of code contribution by members of the team.
Wait a sec, only 2,410 lines of code out of ~900,000? Well who cares, quality over quantity right? Let's have a look at what was contributed by this colossus of contemporary astrophysics.
Font size? QoL changes? A bugfix? Could it be that a woman's contributions are being blown massively out of proportion just because she's a woman? And who was that achael who contributed over 90% of the code, how come they aren't receiving global recognition for their work?
Oh. Welcome to the blackpill boyo. The post on reddit with this guy's face was deleted by the mods.
TL;DR - Female scientist receives global recognition for literally living life on developer debug mode.
But are things as they seem to be? Let's have a look the breakdown of code contribution by members of the team.
Wait a sec, only 2,410 lines of code out of ~900,000? Well who cares, quality over quantity right? Let's have a look at what was contributed by this colossus of contemporary astrophysics.
Font size? QoL changes? A bugfix? Could it be that a woman's contributions are being blown massively out of proportion just because she's a woman? And who was that achael who contributed over 90% of the code, how come they aren't receiving global recognition for their work?
Oh. Welcome to the blackpill boyo. The post on reddit with this guy's face was deleted by the mods.
TL;DR - Female scientist receives global recognition for literally living life on developer debug mode.