Ok, fair, but I guess my point is what I took from it at 20 in 1996 is very different from how I hear it espoused in 2026.

I recently bought a JBL Trio everything in one box music thing.

It has the ability in almost real time, there’s a bit of buffering, to unmix any music I stream to it from my phone. You can dial out vocals, the guitar, drums, etc.

Being able to separate the tracks in audio, let alone do it in basically real time, would have seemed like black magic in the 70s. Hell, it seems like black magic now.

The TV series Unreal, cause it’s hard to explain that one of my favorite shows is about a reality dating show.

Atlas Shrugged, the series cause while I liked it, I don’t think it was very good, and the book because it’s become too political.

Battlefield Earth, because the movie was a terrible adaptation and no one I know wants to read a book the size of the dictionary.

I bought some of those as seen on TV foam door runners in fabric tubes made to help seal a room.

When Ash was just six weeks old she came charging through the living room with one, it had to be ten times her size. She was so damned proud of her kill.

To this day it’s the only thing she consistently plays with, other than q-tips.

Growing up in a time where seeking mental health was heavily stigmatized, I haven’t sought any professional help for this. “Man up” and “Tough it out” was the rule for anything short of broken bones.

You are not the first to suggest getting help, but are the first who’s had similar experience.

I think it’s time I “Man up” and admit I need help, thank you

Whole life I had a very hard time waking up. Early just wasn’t for me.

Then I woke up to the house burning down around me, trapped in a basement.

Now I wake up between 5:30 and 6:00 am every morning without an alarm clock, in fight or flight mode, so I don’t even need coffee.

Not a solution that’s right for everyone.

Don’t know the details, but a baseball player was giving an interview, and at the last moment basically blind caught a ball about to wreck the interviewer.

Felix Baumgartner’s freefall from the edge of space.

Edit: you asked for stories, read it as videos for some reason

This is so me, find the right gear and feather the clutch, never touch the brakes.

I love my career, which took a very long time to develop.

Over the years I’ve had plenty of jobs I didn’t like, some I’d even say I hated.

Some helped develop my career, others were just solely for the paycheck, though I’d like to think I learned something at each.

Been at my current company for about six years, and I have to say, I love it.

It’s a company I respect, making products I believe in, and my role gives me the freedom to do projects the way I want, with the technology I want.

I like the people I work with, and I can honestly say I’ve not once woken up with that dread of '“Crap, I have to go to work”.

The company, my chain of command, and the people who use my systems, all appreciate the work I do.

Now, would I do it for free? Hell no, those are hobbies.

My only real answer as to why you should like your job, I know love is a stretch for most people, is that a job you enjoy doesn’t leave you as stressed and burned out as one you don’t.

But it is in and of itself a piece of history.

Changing a story that is thousands of years old is wrong.

Go ahead and make the movie, but be faithful to the original work.

I’m always split between skateboarding and snowboarding. Have 41 years on the skateboard and 35 on the snowboard.

Being old and broken, I certainly can’t ride like I used to, but I’m having as much fun as ever and still push myself to learn new things.

I hope a much needed knee surgery later this year improves things.

Still, nothing I enjoy more than a day at the park teaching anyone who will listen.

So this is why I’m ok with it.

We really need a counter of the days he has left in office.

Every news article should start with “With only X number of days left in his reign of terror, Trump said Y”.

Have been working on moving what I can to a VM, but the systems I develop require physical access, and when I’ve asked, I’ve been told there is no way to give a VM access to the laptops ports.

Many of the systems / devices are on physically isolated networks, use RS-232 or USB for access, etc.

If there are netsec approved ways of passing physical ports to the VM that would solve a ton of my issues.

I think a lot of it comes down to the build team.

We have a very strict build, and while there is bloatware I could do without, they’ve always been great about handing out new machines, so we generally stay ahead of it.

The issue I run into is that at our company, I’m very much “That guy”, who needs all the exceptions and special software.

While they’ve created some AD groups for me that provide most of what I need, transferring to a new laptop is a major procedure as I never know what new restrictions have been put in place that I’ll need exceptions for. It’s a constant battle between security and having the tools I need to do the job. I always have at least three laptops, one that I’m using, one I’m working on setting up, and the old one I can’t let go of.

All that being said, yes, win 11 is an absolute pig compared to other options, once my machine is dialed in, I really don’t mind the environment.

Course, it helps that my lab shares space with the end user IT support team, so all I have to do is call over my shoulder to have something fixed.

Burt’s in Morton Grove Il is still my favorite.

Burt passed a few years ago, but some locals bought it and reopened. It’s as good as ever.

When I was born, there were 4 billion people in the world.

There are now over 8 billion.

That means in just my lifetime, there are twice as many humans on Earth.

I 100% feel the planet is over populated, and that it is a major factor in issues we face today.

I absolutely think people should be encouraged not to have children.

Absolutely second the don’t have kids. Best decision I made in life.

I think the first one may be comparable, but for subsequent languages I think programming is much easier.

Granted, I only know one language that works with people, and have worked in dozens of programming languages over the years.

So wait, if my start up does a human written “Hello World” and the rest is piled on AI slop it can’t be stripped of copyright? Or is “Hello World” too generic to hold a copyright at all?

Granted, as you said this all has to be defined and tested in court, I’m just trying to understand where the line as you see it is.