Bold of programmers to assume gender can be expressed accurately in a finite discrete system. Gonna have to bust the Taylor series for some better approximation.

[–] apotheotic 9 points 3 days ago (9 children)

I guess in theory as there will only ever be a finite number of individuals, there will also necessarily only ever be a finite number of different gender expressions, so finite discrete probably works. (Not to say that peoples experiences of gender are fixed and equidistant, but more so that you could have a "gender enum" with an entry for each individual)

Of course, trying to say how many bits this would require is almost impossible because theres always going to be more people and more genders, but it is technically finite.

In any case, bagsies on (leading zeros)100101001

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Me on my way to define everyone's gender:

enum Gender {
  AARON,
  ALEX,
  ANN,
  ...

[–] apotheotic 4 points 3 days ago

Hell yeah although you might want to construct an identifier from like, name and surname and datetime of birth?

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