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[–] 156 points 3 weeks ago (42 children)

I don’t make the rules…. but I have observed far too often for it to be coincidence that the more brilliant a type theorist is, the more likely it will be that they identify as 🏳️‍⚧️ or 🏳️‍🌈.

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  • [–] 131 points 3 weeks ago (22 children)

    Counterpoint: I used to be a computer scientist in obscure languages, I'm as cis as they come, and I've always been absolutely average. Wait that's not a counterpoint at all

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  • [–] 104 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

    Maybe taking estrogen will elevate your rank.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    In that case she’d be able to double jump

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    What do the Linux socks unlock? Sneak while running?

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  • [–] 44 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Counterpoint: I am a trans woman in CS and I am incompetent

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  • [–] 30 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Maybe you just have imposter syndrome: you think you work in CS but you actually work in retail.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

    People who use templates and types to achieve absurd outcomes that just work, maybe?

    I have seen a few haskell magic.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    Dunno about type theory per se but I visited a Haskell-based company a while back, and they said 50% of the women they interviewed were trans. Not sure of the cause and effect relationship. I know of several male-at-the-time programmers who got interested in Haskell and then transitioned later.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    What about Gödel, Frege, Cantor, and the other great philosophers-mathematicians of the 20th century?

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  • [–] 59 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Programmers used to be so hostile to women that they needed to transition (evolve) to refill the niche.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    that is not how a confidence interval... never mind.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

    I had to look it up, DLC is downloadable content.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

    come the fuck on

    string bigIfTrue(Boolean size)
    {
        string toAssign = '';
        if (size == true)
        {
            toAssign = 'big';
        }
        else
        {
            toAssign = 'small';
        }
        return toAssign;
    }
    
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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago*

    Claire's (likely) a good programmer, knows there's always edge cases and is super pedantic.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago

    Source please! I want this to be true.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    Twitter 💀💀💀

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