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Somehow it's comforting and nice to know I have a much nicer kitchen than Skip Bayless.

It's a matter of arrogance, on both sides. It's about being so totally certain in the dismissal of the possibilities contrary to their interpretations and beliefs. "It's "blind certainty", a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up." @Neonmoon is the ignorant-cum-certain premiere example, if you wanted to read up on what it looks like. Everyone should read or watch "This is Water" by David Foster Wallace at least once a year as a sort of annual mental health check-up or prevention.

Yes.

Beautiful truck. Don't let people shame you into thinking you are extravagant.

I'd read it sure. I guess where I was missing the boat was in being aware or picking up on this extremist-coded-shared-words phenomenon, as if using the word ilk or screed or any other word that isn't rooted in racism or ugliness or a meme of daily storm trooper pepe frogs was the linguistic analog of throwing up the ok sign with your fingers.

I think this is spot-on and read that big budget movies and the cinema experience is going to be these derivative, spin-off, re-boot, tried-and-true IP stories and that the film that would be break-out hits or create new IP are increasingly being developed and distributed via streaming. The thinking being, why try and make this a 2.5 hour journey when I can really add all the detail and color and artistic journey I want and do it over 8 episodes. I don't know, you are in the business of Hollywood somehow I think, and I'm not, but that seems to be the trend and where the money is going. I follow the streamers and content creators from a business perspective and find it all very fascinating, especially Netflix (and the news that Reed Hastings has stepped down from CEO).

You mention it would be interesting to you-- why is that? Do you have a half-baked hypothesis that using the word "screed" or "ilk" is used by Nazi's more than regular folk? Serious question because until today I didn't realize "ilk" was a coded word that bad people used. I wouldn't be opposed to such a word study I just haven't thought it would be interesting, but open to hear why it would be useful and interesting and/or entertaining to you.

Leave @Brisketexan out of this. He hasn't done anything wrong!

If you say it so decidedly and emphatically, I assume it's because you think having Dak as the QB meant no amount of playmaker would have swung the game our way. e.g. Dak would just throw INTs trying to get it to OBJ in his inaccurate way.

I'll ask again, because I think it actually would matter: If the Cowboys were to sign a healthy OBJ (instead of TY Hilton on the cheap) for this playoff run, do we beat the Niners? I think you could make the case yes. He is a vertical threat (the one weakness of the Niners D was their secondary and giving up big secondary plays, yet we couldn't test them) and he's a playmaker who thrives on the big stage. Was it a strategic misfire to not hire the mercenary for the exact moments like last night? I assume he is healthy because the talk track was always "will not play in the regular season but will be 100% ready for playoffs"

Incredulity is not a right wing extremist. Get a grip.

The level and tone of antagonism directed at Skipper is a microcosm of the ability to communicate at a national level.

I have to land on No...at least not yet. Will you both eventually be one to each other? Almost certainly. But that's business, baby.

Good point re: AWS and Google Tesseract being OCR that can kinda sorta maybe do semi-structured things. Since you are very well-versed on this topic, would you mind answering a few questions? I agree that having the business outcome you want to achieve first will inform the best route, but generally speaking it is my pov that IDP as a software "category", let's call it, is still immature and illegitimate. In that there is no true market leader or winner who has capabilities and features/functions that cannot be beat or repeated. I don't know that to be sure though, what are your thoughts in your experience? Who have you used (assuming you are an operator/user and not just a category buyer)? To what ends? I know people at a few of these firms, but as you can see, it's insanely crowded from legacy tools to consulting firms who have a software offering to start-ups focusing on it. And this doesn't even include the software firms that are very narrowly focusing IDP on a very specific business unit, like AP/AR only a la a fintech, etc.

Consider me living under a rock because that seems to be a huge number for a weekend night sting.

I'd be curious to hear your experience and point of view on IDP (as it seems to be the most unlike what chatpGPT does as an ingestion tool to extract data from unstructured data sources) because I've been following it for a while and the entire market seems to be crazy crowded and I can't really make heads or tails of who the best-of-breed engines are (AWS textract? Google Tesseract? VC-funded private start-ups that are 2 years old? Legacy software like Abbyy or Kofax?) and it just feels like a chaotic landscape where even analysts can't figure it out. Maybe another thread.

Geez, a youth pastor? The skeletons in the closets are real. It's hard not to feel sympathy for these people. Employers are notified at a minimum of this arrest, it carries a Felony, and if you have a wife/family (you are a piece of crap for stepping out on them for a craiglist hooker to begin with) but that's probably irreparably damaged. All in an area where these men thought they were insulated and safe (Southlake/Frisco vs Harry Hines). I do wonder how many are actually from the area proper versus driving in from Irving or somewhere like that. There but for the Grace of God, go I on a lot of idiotic behaviors as a youth.

He's going to the HOF because he got a ring and we put an outsize emphasis on that KPI-- and this ring was because they mortgaged 10 years for the 1 year (not saying that's wrong, but look at the team and financial health a year after winning it all and going 4-14 or whatever).

Here is a question to debate: Would having a healthy OBJ have been a difference maker for this offense and Dak in this game? By all accounts the secondary was the weakness of this defense and we couldn’t get vertical on them….

Yea it’s kind of weird to see celery lose it on this thread.

After taking some time to think about it. Defense was fantastic, especially considering injuries, but just ran out of gas at the end. Dan Quinn is that dude. Micah Parsons is like the Luka of the Cowboys— if we don’t show him we will support his generational talent he will get sour and leave eventually. And he will be justified. Diggs giveth (2021) and he taketh away (2022). The regressing to the mean hurt because his INT there and breaking up that Kittle pass and we likely win even with a Dak stinker. Dak is as everyone on here except Koopa can see— an average QB paid like he’s elite. Average QBs can win it all though— we saw that with Matt Stafford (and previously with Brad Johnson and Nick Foles and the list goes on), but not with Dak as he doesn’t limit mistakes. Holding Deebo and Aiyuk in check most of the game and CMC is good. CMC got going at the end a little bit once the D was gassed and having the 3rd RB give them life with fresh legs was killer. Punting late in the 4th was dumb. Especially when Dak was dumb and almost got a safety. There was no easy answer but I think you had to go for it on 4th and 10. Purdy outplayed Dak. Purdy is pretty dang good. I thought he’d choke and crack but the guy seems to have the mental game down.

The game was lost when Diggs dropped the INT. I also feel like he could have broken up the Kittle tip drill ball that turned the game for good.

If Dallas loses tomorrow they will have accomplished the same thing.

I know a lot of those old Turbonomic guys (IBM ARM acquisition); a few have struggled to find new gigs, which is neither here nor there.

Are y'all spying on me? I've had The Road on my desk for the last two weeks with the intention of re-reading it. I don't know anything about The last of us, but I think I'll check it out. I read The Road in my early 20's before having kids and don't remember it being that great TBH. I have kids now; I imagine it hits differently.