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”
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.
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
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.
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That is so wonderfully wholesome; I needed that today.
I wonder what editor she used. Hope it was vim!
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if this 4 year old is proficient with emacs i’m going to kill myself
And you should not forget that Emacs is way harder when you are 4 because your hands are smaller!
Let’s just make room for the next generation
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”
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407
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.
Man this warms my heart ;‿;
This feels like a “Little Bobby Tables” moment…
https://m.xkcd.com/327/
So cute!