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I would call it a major Turing point (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 25 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

My grandmother was one of these women. She wouldn't even talk about it, probably for reasons to do with what you just said.

So much human potential is squandered by the false divisions holding people back.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

If she worked at Bletchley or somewhere similarly top secret during the war then she probably wouldn't have talked about it because it was classified for decades

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Was it classified because cracking the Enigma machine was still a matter of national security by the 1950s or because the UK didn't want to talk about the people that cracked it?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 6 hours ago

Definitely the former (though maybe the latter too)

[–] frizzo@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

False divisions or some say wage slave capitalism.