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?
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.
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?