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Very irritating tendency of people here to assume everyone on the internet is “he”.

To be fair, the grandparent comment being replied to has a username beginning with Mr.

I went the obvious path, back in the days.

Same lol. You can email HN and they will change your username if you ask. They did it for me!

he is the default

It used to be but in my circles defaulting to he/him for everyone is considered bad form and foolish.

better than being bad at math