Interesting anecdote. What did you end up doing? Did you just leave it as-was?
- I did not click through to their profile.
The cause for both of these is that my mobile HN experience is horrible for me (a lazy person).
I spent a few seconds looking for a word to replace "She/He", when none came to mind I fell back to a regular expression[1]. As iaml pointed out[2] (along with others) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they is the proper solution to this issue, and I will try to remember that in the future.
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[1] as we so often do in our daily lives.
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15489652
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In my second attempt at comedy today, Trying to perform the error-prone art of interpreting genders based on usernames, the best I came up with for you is
/^\0_$/
I'll explain the joke, so that no-one feels left out: I interpret name "Void" as gender "null", then carry the underscore over, using artistic license, to make the regex more interesting.
You could listen for the keydown, but you wouldn't hear it, so you may as well ignore what you can't hear.
/S?he|\w+kin|.*/
On a serious note, I was looking for that word, but failed to remember it[0].