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Cis(n't)co Systems (lemmy.world)
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[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago
[-] zea_64 10 points 6 days ago

If gender were binary, we could switch the gender of everyone in the world in less than 10 seconds! But it's not, and I don't know how many bits are required to represent it.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

No this is actually just for switching one person's gender millions of times per second. The user has passed gender-fluid and is now gender-plasma. The user's pronouns change so fast they cannot be typed and if spoken aloud just sound like white noise. This gender switch additionally instantly adjusts the user's body with every gender change, so entering the boob-zone may result in being launched away with enough force to go through nearby walls due to the constant rapid boob deployment and undeployment, depending on the user's preferences for the currently active gender.

(Except this is actually a router not a switch but I'm not sure how you route someone's gender so I'll go along with pretending it's a switch)

[-] zea_64 1 points 6 days ago

Source physics boobs?

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 days ago

This feels like floating point would not work well.

(Context for the non-programmer-socks crowd) Some systems store decimal numbers in a way that precludes an exact representation of some vslues. So 1/10 might have be stored as 0.0999999999999976, which makes little difference until the inaccuracy gets multiplied and rippled around enough to generate a letter for being 0.0000000047 cents overdrawn.

I suppose for gender, the rounding error is catgirl. we're all ever so slightly willing to mew and swat away people trying to rub our bellies, it's just a matter of when it shows up in an unexpecyed place.

[-] zea_64 1 points 6 days ago

And we have plenty of NaNs for non binary!

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