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Re:An Austrian-American actress/inventor pioneered basis for... by nonrandomstring on Sunday September 24, 2023 @08:10AM (#37632375)
But a piano-roll (presumably of type she discovered in music boxes) is quite ingenious solution for synchronised key sequences, for the technology of the time. Kinda similar analogical transfer going on for the Jacquard loom as early "program storage".
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Re:An Austrian-American actress/inventor pioneered basis for... by shakow on Sunday September 24, 2023 @10:21AM (#37633384)
I don't think OP says that her work was not smart or non-innovative, merely that presenting it as “pioneering frequency hoping” is over the top.

E.g. Hoare did a lot of smart things with Rust bringing real-world impact, still you wouldn't write on its epitaph that he “pioneered programming languages”.

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