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    Shit, it's how I feel after contributing 1 line of code to fastfetch (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 76 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    1 line of code?

    Amateur, I changed 1 byte of code in the Linux kernel!

    It was random driver with something along the lines of "if (hardware_version > 3) fail()".

    One day we got a new shipment of hardware that wasn't working for some reason until I upped that 3 to a 4.

    [–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    That's 3 bits, from 00110011 to 00110100. Can anyone top that?

    [–] Wilzax 91 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I've changed 0 bits of the kernel

    [–] trashgirlfriend 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Someone needs to hit us with "I convinced someone to not contribute to the kernel"

    [–] cactusupyourbutt 25 points 4 months ago

    Linus does this well enough on his own, he doesnt need help

    [–] Kyouki 6 points 4 months ago

    Myself, because I'm stupid with coding.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

    If you revert a change that's negative bits. You can do it!

    [–] [email protected] 64 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Still asking myself what that four year old girl who contributed to the kernel is doing today. Hopefully she goes into IT somewhere, she'd have a killer résumé.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    14 year old with 10yoe of contributing to the Linux kernel is exactly the current IT market is looking for

    [–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Actual code!? Most of us have to settle for fixing a grammatical error in the documentation

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, I also do that sometimes, but it doesn't feel as good to be honest...

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    🥳I am mentioned in the kernel git (even if it is only for a found bug in driver about a specific wifi dongle that had wrong MAC address)

    It really feels like that ☺️💕

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    I was thinking about trying to contribute, but the code I was fixing is filled with so many workarounds that I’m terrified of breaking one.

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    "What if I just change this a bit..."

    segmentation fault

    "Nope, nope, let's put that mystery code back..."

    [–] rtxn 13 points 4 months ago

    Do not touch The Coconut!

    [–] foggy 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    These days id prefer a developer produce negative lines of code without breaking anything.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

    As experience tells me, every program contains at least one bug.

    Experience also tells me, that you can remove the buggy line of code and the program will still not work as intended.

    From this follows, that every program can be reduced to a single line of code that doesn't work as intended.

    [–] Skullgrid 5 points 4 months ago

    I want to roll back my commits, not make more!

    [–] h0bbl3s 2 points 4 months ago

    I saw it put really well the other day. Any software has in general a set number of bugs per lines of code. Something like Debian the number of bugs goes down after release as only bugfixes occur, while anything constantly moving like a rolling release, is certain to grow in number of bugs as the less tested newer software (which generally includes more loc) is pushed. There are tradeoffs to both methods, and edge cases of course.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

    Wasn't there a kernel release a few years back that actually resulted in less code? Or at least at some huge part?

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

    How I feel like after contributing