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Alternate gender input fields (imgur.com)

submitted 3 years ago by zqwzzle@lemmy.ca to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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As collected from /r/programmerhumor. I think I got all of them.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

A weirdly limited selection, too. Like, what if you're a Somali?

Look at me, I am your gender now.

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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca [S] 4 points 3 years ago*

So I found a twitter thread talking about this, and the documentation page seems to indicate it's used as a lookup for a name to indicate the most likely gender of that name is. https://pecl.php.net/package/gender/0.6.0

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1343285800369147904

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