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4 year old got her first linux kernel patch accepted (mastodon.social)
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[–] ono@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407

Date	Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:42:06 -0700
From	Jonathan Corbet <>
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:54:17 +0200 (EET)
Tero Roponen  wrote:

> From: Maisa Roponen 
> 
> "That letter [the last s] is sad because all the others
> have those things [=] below them and it does not."
> 
> This patch fixes the tragedy so all the letters can
> be happy again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maisa Roponen 
> [The author being 4 years old needed some assistance]
> Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen 
>

> When I was reading the documentation, my 4-year-old
> niece wanted to see what I was doing. After telling her,
> she noticed that something was very wrong and asked
> me to fix it. Instead, I helped her fix it herself.

Please inform your niece that the patch has been applied and that the
lonely "s" need pine away no longer.

Thanks,

jon
[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago

That is so wonderfully wholesome; I needed that today.

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

I saw the title and was about to start calling bullshit but then I actually read it and it's honestly the most adorable and wholesome thing. Her patch is greatly needed, and is critically important. I can't believe that such a major bug was missed by the dev team.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For one second I thought this was, like, Euler's second coming with a child just looking at code and being like:"Huh, so thats programming? Btw. you made an whoopsie there! frantically pointing"

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

somewhere there are such geniuses undiscovered because they were born in the wrong place and in an unfavorable configuration. that hurts us all more than we'll ever know.

[–] triarius@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder what editor she used. Hope it was vim!

[–] custom_situation@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

if this 4 year old is proficient with emacs i’m going to kill myself

[–] heyoni@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

Let’s just make room for the next generation

[–] robinm@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

And you should not forget that Emacs is way harder when you are 4 because your hands are smaller!

[–] DannyMac@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Man this warms my heart ;‿;

[–] robinm@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

So cute!