Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml VeganPizza69 Ⓥ @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Gender.js

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

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Gender 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;

Programmer Humor @lemmy.world VeganPizza69 Ⓥ @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Gender.js

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Joke's on you because they're all still mutable objects behind the reference.
- Last one can be freely changed by anyone, the middle one still has some restraints.
  
  Reassignment isn't the same as mutation. But mutation depends on the type of value. If gender was a string like "female" it wouldn't be mutable cuz strings are immutable in JS.
  
  var isn't global unless it's not inside a function. var is just function scoped, with declaration auto hoisted to the beginning of the function. let is a little more intuitive since you can't refer to it before it's been declared and has block scope rather than function scope.
- typescript: const as const (readonly) 'pretty please dont mutate it'
  
  // @ts-ignore
Douchebag Peterson doesn't deserve to be a meme.
void* gender it can be anything i want >:)
python:

gender: Optional[str] = None
- How about:
  
  gender: Optional[complex]
  
  self.gender = 1.63-2.1j 🤔
Anyway you put it it's not gonna please non-binary people.
- NB here - this is hilarious.
- const gender = 0.5
  
  Non-binary, cis, non-genderfluid
  
  Ooh or "gender = null"
  
  That's 0.1 ₂ so it's still binary
  
  Checkmate atheist
  
  Edit: the 2 is supposed to be a subscript
- People not getting this... computers are inherently binary (until quantum computers become truly viable). That's the joke.
Can anyone explain it to me, please? 🥹
- In JavaScript, a const variable is an immutable constant that you cannot reassign. Similar to how many conservatives think of gender, an intrinsic fact of a person that you can only read, but never change.
  
  The "let" keyword declares a variable in a local scope, the nearest surrounding curly braces. It can be changed in that scope, but does not exist anywhere else. I assume this is meant to concede that gender is a spectrum and your presentation can kind of wiggle, such as between "very manly" and "not as manly" but still a man. Like, a stereotypical lumberjack and a stereotypical twink are both men so there isn't "one way to be a man" but a conservative might say " but they are still men, you can change how you present but you can't change sex".
  
  The "var" keyword lifts the variable definition to the top of the function, or "hoists" it up. A variable declared with var can be accessed and modified anywhere after the block it was declared in. Gender is a spectrum and it can be reassigned anywhere, at anytime, to anything.
  
  I interpret it a bit differently. After all, a variable declared with var isn't really more capable of being rebound, or bound to more values, than one declared with let. However, it is possible, with var, that setting a variable in one place could change it unexpectedly in another, so Rose Noble coming out as trans could cause Jordan Peterson to also suddenly be a woman.
  
  Just to be pedantic, const declares an immutable variable, not a constant.
- Const keyword means constant, a value that won't change after the application has been compiled; this allows for certain optimizations.
  
  Let keyword is a JavaScript variable that is safely scoped down to the method or function level.
  
  Var keyword is generally discouraged in JavaScript, because it's a global declaration. The value of it could be available anywhere in the application, and the app might have collisions.
  
  So, the meme is, shifting from a constant, unchanging gender, to the middle where gender is defined and scoped to a local level, to the extreme, where gender is variable globally.

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