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[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 264 points 1 year ago (4 children)

...Kernel patch at age 4. Sigh... What have I done with my life?

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 135 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You done fucked up from the moment you turned 5. That's where you went wrong. You should have just stopped getting older

[–] gamey@feddit.rocks 29 points 1 year ago

Dose mental age count?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Internet didn't even exist when I was four, let alone Linux, so I don't feel so bad.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Well, you shoulda been working on ARPANET then, slacker!

[–] gamey@feddit.rocks 8 points 1 year ago

Lucky bastard!

[–] shaulliv@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

she's going to one of those mythical 20 yo with 15 years of experience 😉

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago

You can start now!


I am no developer, but I've submitted my first patch a few months ago.

It simply added my laptop to a list of quirks, in order to make the microphone work.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 170 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Breaking News at msn.com: "Linux uses child labour!"

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] rustyricotta@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh god, maybe they'll start calling actual child labor "open source"

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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.

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[–] 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 (2 children)

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

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[–] 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.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 89 points 1 year ago

That is adorable.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want her to do a Ted talk on the morality and ethics of making sure no letter is left behind when underlining text.

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[–] Flarp@kbin.social 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

lazy to not submit a unit test to check for this throughout the repo. That girl isn't going anywhere with that kind of work ethic

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Her coding style is on point, though.

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[–] alcamtar@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can a 4-yr old legally consent to the copyright assignment?

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 points 1 year ago

No but the parents can on her behalf

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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some problems just need a fresh pair of eyes. Sometimes literally.

[–] LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 6 points 1 year ago

(งツ)ว

[–] Happy_Harry@lemmy.happyharry.org 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somewhere, somehow, this is going to break something lol

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's almost 9 years ago, I think we're good.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago

I reckon we can still mine it for karma for another couple of years…

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I would like to request a patch to the patch request. The submitter describes the dashes as equal signs and it's really bugging me.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

I frankly have to very much agree with her.

[–] delnac@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

This is just adorable. Poor s!

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This better get backported with high priority.

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[–] untemperedsteel@mastodon.ie 8 points 1 year ago

@ken27238 Actually great, it is good to see young people trying to help with a project.

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