Linus Torvalds wrote in the Linux 6.19 release announcement:
“I have more than three dozen pull requests for when the merge window opens tomorrow - thank you to all the early maintainers. And as people have mostly figured out, I’m getting to the point where I’m being confused by large numbers (almost running out of fingers and toes again), so the next kernel is going to be called 7.0.”
I’ve had considerably more replies on Lemmy from people who definitely don’t understand how sarcasm works, than on Reddit. As a likely autistic person who will live and die by snark, I find this annoying.
Mostly it changes the version number.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism
as an observer, i appreciated this clean and efficient exchange of information
As another observer I appreciate you
I’ve had considerably more replies on Lemmy from people who definitely don’t understand how sarcasm works, than on Reddit. As a likely autistic person who will live and die by snark, I find this annoying.
That’s because Reddit is 90% bots now.
Are they better at detecting sarcasm?
Yeah because by “bots” I mean sweatshop workers in Vietnam and Thailand.
This finally explains why he makes weird major version switches. Because it’s certainly not semantic versioning.
It’s never been SemVer.