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[–] [email protected] 253 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 129 points 2 years 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

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

Dose mental age count?

[–] SpaceNoodle 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] samus12345 42 points 2 years ago

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

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

Lucky bastard!

[–] shaulliv 19 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 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] 164 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] ZeroXHunter 12 points 2 years ago

Don't threaten the far-right with a good time

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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

I didn’t see how it’s funny.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] elbarto777 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] 7 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] elbarto777 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] fubo 12 points 2 years 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.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 years ago

That is adorable.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

(งツ)ว

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years 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 22 points 2 years ago

Her coding style is on point, though.

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[–] alcamtar 48 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Somewhere, somehow, this is going to break something lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] demlet 23 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] 13 points 2 years ago

I frankly have to very much agree with her.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This better get backported with high priority.

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

This is just adorable. Poor s!

[–] [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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