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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 102 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No matter how many times I read this I have no idea what's going on. Can someone explain this like I'm 3

[–] Prismey@sh.itjust.works 184 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A girl read documentation and see that all the titles are underlined with -, but one of the letter isn't underlined like the others (that's the lonely s). Then she asks the person doing the commit to fix it and they fix it together.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And then the older pair programmer goes to social media and calls out their partners age for clout. Ageism is real in tech. :)

[–] ken27238@lemmy.ml 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow we really can’t just appreciate a wholesome/cute moment?

[–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ken27238@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I didn’t see how it’s funny.

[–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it’s an absurd statement, as in completely obviously not an example of ageism in tech.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Dude is just dense.

[–] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 year ago

Inevitably, there will be times in one's life when another's attempt at humor fails to amuse. When striken by such terrible tragedy, take heart, for you have the knowledge that it's just your opinion, bro.

[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

This is obvious

[–] JaxNakamura@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

If nothing else, the smiley can be taken as a hint that it's not serious.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I would have said "you could be a Linux maintainer," but given this post, clearly Linux maintainers are less dense than you.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This is truly a Reddit moment

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, people didn't get your joke. What the hell...

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

I wonder how many 4 year olds are using Lemmy... Ah sorry, there's the ageism again :<

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 66 points 1 year ago

So in the documentation they had

1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
------------------------------

As you can see the 's' doesn't get a '-' under it. So they changed the documentation to:

1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
-------------------------------

so the 's' in parameters gets a dash under it.

this seems to be the standard as everywhere else the dashes go for the same length of characters as the above line. Example:

2.0 /proc/consoles
------------------

The little girl said the 's' in parameters is sad because it didn't get the dash under it and it was all alone. So they added the dash.

[–] jsveiga@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

See the first red box in the documentation text? The underline dashes don't go up to the last letter (s).

4 year old girl said the "s" was sad because of that, uncle submitted a patch to fix that, and it was accepted.

[–] lameJake@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No no the uncle submitted the patch. The girl did. He helped her though.

[–] ipsirc@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, is it her gmail account, while the minimum age for registration is 13 years? And why does she write about herself in the singular 3rd person?

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

She spotted that there was a missing - in the underline for a heading in a piece of documentation, and her parent helped her submit a fix.

[–] redawl@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

The first red box shows that the dotted line underneith the text doesn't go all the way to the s in the text above. In the other red box, the dotted line goes all the way.

The neice submitted a patch to add the missing line.