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.

Well, I’ve heard if you spin it backwards you can hear satanic messages

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time …

My latest conspiracy theory is that is why so much money is being dumped into AI. They want to make AI video so convincing that when the real videos come out, everyone can claim it’s AI.

I’m considered an expert in my field, and with almost 20 years experience I tried what you are suggesting.

The thing all us tech geeks forget about when starting a business, is all the stuff that actually goes into the running a business part of it.

You want to focus on the work, but there are bills, invoices, client and project management, etc.

I had clients, I had projects, but I didn’t have nearly enough time in the day to handle all of it.

Then clients started paying late, causing all kinds of fees to stack up. So even when I had time to do the work, I was distracted and nothing got done the way I wanted.

I tried hiring an admin, but it was too little too late. In the end I went back to being the in house guy at a large company, where I get to focus on the stuff I am good at and enjoy.

I’m not saying don’t do it, I’m saying be very very aware about all the other elements before going off on your own.

At one of the no kings rallies, I feel something hit me in the back. Turn around to see a small girl running over to get the large Styrofoam sign that the wind had blown out of her hands.

She looks up saying “I’m sorry!”.

“It’s ok, I’m not a space shuttle, I can survive being hit by a foam block”.

Crickets.

I would not fuck a Tesla.