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[-] [email protected] 264 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 135 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

Dose mental age count?

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Lucky bastard!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 175 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 79 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 109 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 184 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I didn’t see how it’s funny.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Dude is just dense.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

This is obvious

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 66 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The line of code (well, documentation in the code) used to look like something like this (I'm not sure if this formatting will work on mobile, sorry):

The code ends with an s

----------------------

And after her changes it looks like this:

The code ends with an s

------------------------

See how I added an extra - in that second line? That makes the S happier because now it also has a - below it like all the other letters. This also just generally makes that line more consistent with other spots in the code. So it's not a bad change. It doesn't do anything really but making your code format nice, easy to read, and consistent is usually important in programming so although it doesn't do anything tangible it's still a valuable change!

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[-] [email protected] 96 points 2 years ago

That is adorable.

[-] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago

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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[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Her coding style is on point, though.

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[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

No but the parents can on her behalf

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

Though slightly cliche, this just feels right. That niece has learned a great lesson about how collaborating to improve things is always possible, and that open-source relies on everyone doing their bit.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Somewhere, somehow, this is going to break something lol

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I frankly have to very much agree with her.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

This is just adorable. Poor s!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

This better get backported with high priority.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

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

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