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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 101 points 2 years ago (5 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

[–] Prismey@sh.itjust.works 183 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.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 31 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. :)

[–] ken27238@lemmy.ml 65 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] ken27238@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I didn’t see how it’s funny.

[–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Dude is just dense.

[–] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 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.

[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

This is obvious

[–] JaxNakamura@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I would have said "you could be a Linux maintainer," but given this post, clearly Linux maintainers are less dense than you.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

This is truly a Reddit moment

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

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

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 65 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.

[–] jsveiga@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] lameJake@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ipsirc@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 7 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.

[–] redawl@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years 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.