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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10094818

spoilerGender variability as declarations in JavaScript: const / let / var

Meme is based on Jordan Peterson "approival / disapproval" format, him being a conservative who disapproves of gender fluidity.

Transcript:

  • Jordan Peterson approval image: const gender;
  • Jordan Peterson angry image: let gender;
  • Jordan Peterson crying image: var gender;

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
const gender = 0.5

Non-binary, cis, non-genderfluid

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's not a gender tho... Or is it?
vsauce music starts playing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Null was a mistake (as per what quite a few people say) XD

Don't know if some actual thing saying "undefined" explicitly would/could be any better, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

There are two kinds of "null" that are often called out as mistakes, you may be thinking of. One is the null reference, as found in languages like C and Java, which Tony Hoare, who created it for ALGOL back in the sixties, has called his "billion dollar mistake". The other is the three-valued-logic of null in SQL, which is almost as bad.

There's nothing wrong with "null", necessarily, in other contexts, although I do think a more clear name for whatever it means in any given context might be better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

That's 0.1 ~2~ so it's still binary

Checkmate atheist

Edit: the 2 is supposed to be a subscript

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now write it in IEEE754 without using the internet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can't comment anything without the internet. Checkmate atheist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't say you had to write it on Lemmy. Write it on paper.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The third bit is wrong. Prove me wrong.

[–] Funkytom467 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah that's what i meant, well...

I guess binary is better interpreted as a boolean than being actually written in a binary base.

They forgot what it's like coding in binary i tell you that!