First steps (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 49 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Zettai ryōiki, the absolute territory, is the area between skirt and over the knee socks

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago

    linux users ricing their gender

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago (18 children)

    As a normal person i am almost too afraid to ask, but why are stockings associated with programming?

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  • [–] 48 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    I don't think they are (strictly associated with programming itself I mean) personally, but recently there's definitely been this trend of Linux/unix people posting images of their computers and their legs with stockings, usually striped. I dunno. It's a meme.

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  • [–] 54 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    It started with Amazon making a shot in the dark recommendation to add high socks to a c programming book.

    It stuck because there's a (perceived) high prevalence of trans women in high-skill IT professions and hobbies.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I think you're forgetting femboys.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    In turn I’m almost afraid to ask, are you implying that people that wear high socks aren’t normal?

    I’m kinda hoping it’s just a thoughtless expression on your part which I’d totally understand.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    TBF, as someone who frequently wears high socks and stockings as part of my regular attire, I don't think they're particularly normal. In order to even be able to see that a person is wearing thigh highs as opposed to tights, it's necessary to wear a fairly short skirt or shorts, which may not be appropriate in many contexts β€” and if they're worn with an outfit where you can't see that you're wearing thigh highs, then wearing tights appears to be the more practical options.

    Plus I have known a lot of people who wanted to be the kind of person who wore thigh-highs, but became impatient with them frequently rolling down. Wearing a suspender belt is a good solution for this, but it's surprisingly hard to find ones with clips that are robust enough to be useful and not excessively fiddly β€” most people I have known who have experience with suspender belts know them only as an inconvenient but sexy piece of lingerie, rather than a pragmatic undergarment (which can also be sexy, but they actually exist to serve a function rather than their entire purpose being the sexiness)

    So yeah, I would say that people who wear high socks aren't normal. But I certainly don't see that as a bad thing β€” in fact, seeing someone wearing thigh high socks immediately makes them more attractive to me (as a friend or otherwise)

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Yes, absolutely. Entirely off the rails, alien, utterly incomprehensible.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I own a lot of stockings as part of my regular daily attire (they're so awesome! They're like tights, except you don't have to do the weird tights-dance every time you go for a pee, and if one of them gets a hole, you can just throw away the one stocking instead of the entire pair of tights!). However, if I'm doing programming, I'm probably at home, and in lounge wear.

    I always found the "programming socks" quite funny, so one day, I decided I wanted to be even more in on the joke, so I deliberately wore some of my fancy thigh highs when sitting down to write some code. I ended up having a tremendously productive session, and it made the socks feel like magic. It was likely just that I was just having a serendipitous day where my brain decided it wanted to get shit done, but still, the prospect that they had actually helped was pretty humorous to entertain.

    Because of this, I wore them again the next time I wanted to have an extended, focussed session of coding. And then the time after that. And again and again until eventually, I had created a self-fulfilling prophecy of programming socks increasing my productivity β€” I came to associate them with the headspace of productive focus, and so now whenever I wear them while sitting at my desk, my brain goes "oh damn, we programming now β€” best lock in".

    I am extremely happy to have stumbled into this outcome, because it is both useful and hilarious

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    I thought that wasn't until step 2?

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    fuck yeah garters. not a sexual thing, a "finally these things fit right" thing

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Part 1

    OH!!!

    So that is why I suck at programming.

    All these years struggling,

    Because I skipped the first step.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    after I installed arch I had a strange urge to wear long socks

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Y Viva Suspenders - judge dread

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    Man, I have no idea what this means.

    I AM getting old

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    It's a reference to the phenomenon of "programming socks", which is the meme phenomenon of knee high socks being associated with programmers. I think the association stems from the disproportionately high number of trans women and gender non-conforming men (such as femboys) in programming.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Absolutely true

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