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“The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by dx87 »

golergka wrote: post #30
gowld wrote: post #9

Linus on trivial patches: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255 [ Linux-kernel added back into the cc, because I actually think this is important. ] On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Should I just stop attemting to make these trivial cleanups/fixes/whatever patches? are they more noice than gain? am I being a pain to more skilled people on lkml or can you all live with my, sometimes quite ignorant, patches? I…

I really hope that next time when somebody tries to paint Linus as an asshole and a toxic force for the community because of his rants, someone remembers to link this email too.

I also like this email where he explained to a CS student the difference between spinlocks and semaphores.

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/semaphores.html

Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by ascii_only »

caymanjim wrote: post #36
black-tea wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry but there's no way the 4 year old learnt anything from this. Maybe the adult did, though. Is that the point?

She learned that her opinion is valued. She learned that it's ok to question things. She likely had a sense, based on the activity that followed, that she effected change in some way. I'm sure it was explained to her, and while of course she doesn't understand what a kernel or source code are, she surely had a sense of some positive accomplishment.

And more importantly whole community learned from this.

Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by rdiddly »

gowld wrote: post #9

Linus on trivial patches: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255 [ Linux-kernel added back into the cc, because I actually think this is important. ] On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Should I just stop attemting to make these trivial cleanups/fixes/whatever patches? are they more noice than gain? am I being a pain to more skilled people on lkml or can you all live with my, sometimes quite ignorant, patches? I…

Can't stop laughing evilly at the thought of him instead tearing into a 4-year-old like

Christ, Maisa, your reasoning is weak as hell, and then you come up with THIS shit. Heck no. In fact, not a fucking way in hell. Look yourself in the mirror, Maisa. This patch is ugly, and then you have the gall to quote the "the last s is sad" thing in commit... compared to the diseased abortion you just posted...

EDIT: Shoot I keep having to edit to add more virtue signalling. This is wrong, do not do this to children. Hopefully you didn't need to be told that. Also, Linus is trying harder now. But this is a joke. Someone will make it. It's funny because it's wrong. (Nothing is less funny than when exactly what's supposed to happen, happens.) But Linus did totally say this to someone; I just changed the name.

Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by vinceguidry »

marmot777 wrote: post #4
zaphar wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My coworkers thought I was making a sarcastic comment (apparently I have a reputation) when I suddenly said out loud "That is adorable!". I then had to explain what I was talking about.

Its almost tears in my eyes level. I didn’t expect to have that reaction.

Yeah, I had the same reaction. I've noticed it whenever I see adults putting in an undue amount of effort 'just' to maintain a child's innocent expectation of a certain kind of universal justice.

It's so not a part of the adult lifestyle anymore that suddenly being confronted with it affects those sensitive to it deeply.

Christmas culture and thematics seems to target this dynamic.

Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

golergka wrote: post #30
gowld wrote: post #9

Linus on trivial patches: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255 [ Linux-kernel added back into the cc, because I actually think this is important. ] On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Should I just stop attemting to make these trivial cleanups/fixes/whatever patches? are they more noice than gain? am I being a pain to more skilled people on lkml or can you all live with my, sometimes quite ignorant, patches? I…

I really hope that next time when somebody tries to paint Linus as an asshole and a toxic force for the community because of his rants, someone remembers to link this email too.

Someone can be an asshole and a great leader, at the same or different times. Linus himself, to his credit, recently admitted that he's been unreasonably abusive and is trying to learn better.[0]

People are complicated. He needn't be either a saint or a demon.

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167

Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by notatoad »

mojomark wrote: post #43
DoreenMichele wrote: post #29

I kept wondering where to find the change. I didn't initially realize it is apparently included. But this seems to be it here (from the bottom of the page): 1.9 Ext4 file system parameters ------------------------------- +-------------------------------

For the love of god I still don't see an 's' with a missing (or newly inserted) "=". I've spent way too much time looking at this

it's slightly confusing, because in the change the first dash on the first line is a "minus", indicating that line was removed, not part of the line of dashes. the line of dashes had one dash added to the end of it. (and it was a dash missing, not an equal)

       1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
    [-]------------------------------
    [+]-------------------------------

Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

toddsiegel wrote: post #14
_ikke_ wrote: post #11

Mailing list thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407 > 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.

Sounds totally plausible. I never cease to be amazed by my 4-year-old's attention to detail. He notices everything .

Everything they do is the first time while grownups have done it dozens of time.

Re: “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

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Post by pravj »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #25
commandlinefan wrote: post #7

Well, now a 4-year-old has one more kernel patch than I have...

There's nothing stopping you, except finding the time. One of the things I'm most proud of as a dev is a tiny contribution to the Nim standard library. It's a single commit and very simple, but made the PostgreSQL adapter consistent with the other RBDMSs' adapters. At the time, I'd been using Nim for only a couple of days, but that didn't stop me from being able to contribute in a meaningful way. I'm amused and humbl…

Feel the same way about my contribution to the Go language. :)
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