My unicorn is invisible and pink.

Can it still involve their genitals?

Because it’s not commonly used that way. If we avoided anything that had at some time been used as a slur, we’d only have about 3 names to pick from. (Of course I exaggerate, but it’s better than saying “it would retard growth”, isn’t it?)

Since there is a limited window in which brain plasticity is at its peak, catching up at university isn’t an option.

I call bullshit. It may be true that there is a peak, but it’s not like after that peak it’s hopeless… I’m 50 years old and I work a job where I literally have to learn an ever changing product in order to support it, and I’m doing fine, I just got promoted to senior so I’m teaching the new hires. I haven’t even been there 5 years yet.

Yes, everything about it was extra heavy.

Have you blocked me yet? If not, it might save time to do it now…

I always noticed that too…

That’s the problem though, with old systems like that, the CPU was like 1/10th of the equation, the hardware was far more important. Porting something often involved a full rewrite.

My dad had a DEC something or other that was basically a cube with most of its space being two 8" floppy drives… No clue if it ran cp/m…

My local science museum had a laptop from the '90s on display, with the caption “computing in the 1900s”. My kids asked if that was what I had in school when I was their age, and I had to break the news to them that I was already done with school when those were current…

It’s both, depending on perspective. You emigrate from America to Zimbabwe according to other Americans. To Zimbabweans, you have immigrated to Zimbabwe from America.

a man won’t know a woman doesn’t shave her legs unless he’s intimate with her

What’s the opposite of observant? Because whatever that is, you are.

But not a lot on sunglasses.

I can vouch for that… When my wife was pregnant with our first kid, that was the longest 9 months of my life (well, 8 I guess, since she was a month in before we knew)… Then when our second came along, it wasn’t like that until her 2nd ultrasound, where it looked like there might be a problem… Then time sped up again after the next ultrasound, when they decided it was just a shadow or something and all was fine…

I’m sorry, I shouldn’t laugh, but I can’t help but picture her kneeling, saying “please lord, let it be today…”

Yes younglings, I remember a time when the internet didn’t exist!

Depends on what date you pick to assign to the birth of the internet… RFC 675? Then I am younger, but not by much.

If we listen to Google’s AI, “the internet officially began on January 1, 1983, when ARPANET officially adopted the TCP/IP standard” than I am significantly older than the internet.

Just go read up on networking and you’ll realize that wouldn’t make sense.

That right there is you being an asshole. If that’s who you are, that’s fine, but at least be honest about it. I know I’m an asshole, so you’re not hurting my feelings any by turning it back on me.

If you would like to not be an asshole, a good start would be to accept that you don’t know everything, and just because your experience differs from mine doesn’t mean I’m wrong. It’s fully possible what I observed between 30 and 15 years ago was unusual, or maybe it was common then but isn’t now- and if you had led with that, I might have conceded that you may at least have more current knowledge than I. It’s also possible I didn’t explain myself clearly enough, and we’re just misunderstanding each other- a layer 8 problem, if you will.

you think the modem is broadcasting your computer’s MAC address.

Well, considering I was seeing arp packets from mac addresses of every other machine on my segment pretty much continuously, what conclusion would you come to?

Uncut here, never needed lube either.

I got a vasectomy because I don’t want kids. Unfortunately, when I got home, they were still there.

(I’m kidding, I love my kids. But I definitely don’t want any more)

My own head is capable of moving enough that my showerhead doesn’t need to…