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Huh, I wish I was 16 again. Then I wouldn't be a balding man and 9/11/2001 would still be a few years away, and the world was still a bit saner... Thanks for t

Huh, I wish I was 16 again. Then I wouldn't be a balding man and 9/11/2001 would still be a few years away, and the world was still a bit saner... Thanks for the put down though.

thaumasiotes 5y ago
> Then I wouldn't be a balding man My hair had already started thinning at 16, though it's a slow process.
- asymptosis 5y ago
  The worst part for me is, it's the back of my head, where I can't see it. To a thousand other people, I'm a guy with a bald spot a mile wide, and to me in the mirror, it's like, oh, I need to run some clippers over this golliwog do before people think I'm a hippy. One day I'll replace my pattern of scalp growth with a permanent base 64 underscore, and then everyone will be happy.
  - stavros 5y ago
    Hair transplant is easy and works well, so that's an option.
    - mrlonglong 5y ago
      Or shave head like I do.
asymptosis 5y ago
Sorry if it came across as a put down. I was more questioning the use of language around calling people ignorant for not knowing how base64 works. I thought if you're older than 16 (even in their 40s like I am), being called 16 again could just amuse you. After all, it's not really relevant to my point. My point is: we all start somewhere. Think twice before belittling the ignorant; either educate them or ignore them. Where are you putting your self value if you belittle the ignorant while doing nothing to uplift them?
- bellyfullofbac 5y ago
  Point taken, although Base64 feels "easy", the guy's "About Me" says he's in uni doing computer science, IMO he should've learnt a bit of history of how some systems were only ASCII-compatible and mangled the 8th bit, etc. But "shoulds" are subjective, obviously. True about ignorance, if you asked me, I don't know how GZIP works (I skimmed through the explanation, it looked hard, I didn't bother with it further), although recently I learned how the JPEG compression works (with discrete cosine transformations), and yeah, to agree with you, that's more than 2 decades after I started tinkering with computers.

Huh, I wish I was 16 again. Then I wouldn't be a balding man and 9/11/2001 would still be a few years away, and the world was still a bit saner... Thanks for the put down though.

thaumasiotes 5y ago

> Then I wouldn't be a balding man My hair had already started thinning at 16, though it's a slow process.

asymptosis 5y ago
The worst part for me is, it's the back of my head, where I can't see it. To a thousand other people, I'm a guy with a bald spot a mile wide, and to me in the mirror, it's like, oh, I need to run some clippers over this golliwog do before people think I'm a hippy. One day I'll replace my pattern of scalp growth with a permanent base 64 underscore, and then everyone will be happy.
- stavros 5y ago
  Hair transplant is easy and works well, so that's an option.
  - mrlonglong 5y ago
    Or shave head like I do.

asymptosis 5y ago

Sorry if it came across as a put down. I was more questioning the use of language around calling people ignorant for not knowing how base64 works. I thought if you're older than 16 (even in their 40s like I am), being called 16 again could just amuse you. After all, it's not really relevant to my point. My point is: we all start somewhere. Think twice before belittling the ignorant; either educate them or ignore them. Where are you putting your self value if you belittle the ignorant while doing nothing to uplift them?

bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Point taken, although Base64 feels "easy", the guy's "About Me" says he's in uni doing computer science, IMO he should've learnt a bit of history of how some systems were only ASCII-compatible and mangled the 8th bit, etc. But "shoulds" are subjective, obviously. True about ignorance, if you asked me, I don't know how GZIP works (I skimmed through the explanation, it looked hard, I didn't bother with it further), although recently I learned how the JPEG compression works (with discrete cosine transformations), and yeah, to agree with you, that's more than 2 decades after I started tinkering with computers.