• ono@lemmy.ca
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    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
    
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    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.

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    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