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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago (4 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

[–] [email protected] 180 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.

[–] [email protected] 35 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. :)

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I didn’t see how it’s funny.

[–] [email protected] 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 11 points 1 year ago

Dude is just dense.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

This is obvious

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] elbarto777 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is truly a Reddit moment

[–] elbarto777 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

See the first red box in the ext4 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 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 12 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 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.