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  1. "He's listed as day-to-day, but then again, aren't we all" -Dan Patrick -Wiler77
  2. I apparently botched the story, or you can't read. This was a high school graduation. I assume the girl was 18. She is not my niece. I was there because my niece graduated in the same class. The speaker was reminiscing about a vivid memory from the past. I think it was 5th grade. Maybe it was 6th. 220, 221. My sister rolled her eyes at the comment and at the audience reaction. It was a anecdote to support the notion that young people many times just parrot their parents and don't think for themselves. It wasn't even that good of a story.
  3. I caught a replay of one of her ACL performances a couple of days ago. Simply stunning voice. I couldn't change the channel.
  4. In May I attended my niece's HS graduation in Houston. It's a private school, and one of the speakers was a girl from the senior class. I don't think it was the Valedictorian speech--it was something stupid like speaking on memories from her time at the school because she was one of the few that had been attending since 1st grade. She got to 5th grade, and her favorite memory was watching Trump's Presidential Inauguration, "or what they call in my family 'the best day EVER!'" Half the room applauded. My sister rolled her eyes at me and I said "you're the one who paid to send your daughter here." Let's face it, most of us are influenced by our parents beliefs at an early age. So I'm sure she was excited for the inauguration at age 11 because her dipshit parents were excited. What I don't understand is the inability of people to think independently as they age to understand who has your best interests at stake.
  5. Or smart enough to exit his chair to the right, away from the shards of plate.
  6. Tonight I started to read up on listeria because my wife and I assumed store roasted deli meat like you find at HEB would be safer due to the fact that it's less processed and simply roasted and sold at the store. A lot of the risk comes from the spread of the bacteria from the counter, slicer, etc. So buy whatever you want, but you don't have to buy the original contaminated meat to be at risk
  7. If I didn't watch that era with my own eyes I wouldn't have believed it. That is one dumb motherfucker, and I'm curious what the interview was like that made someone think "yep, this is the coach for me. He kept calling me by a number, but that's part of his charm. Let's give him $5M per year". I'd pay good money to read a transcript of that interview. It should be a Harvard case study on how to maximize your hireability when you're a fucking dipshit. And then, how does the fucking South Florida AD look at the data in front of him and go "this guy totally got the short end of the stick at Texas. Let's throw some money at him." I mean, did no one ask him to explain any the dumb decisions he made as a head coach that a 4th grader would have handled better?"
  8. Wiler77

    Non-competes

  9. Uh, could you please be more specific
  10. That was a lot of words to let us know you don't like hearing lots of details.
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    Oldies

    Lots of great songs so far. Can't believe I didn't post Yakety Yak. Oh man...Everly Brothers. Love those dudes. My dad wore out the Everly Brothers around the house and in the car, and I never got tired of it. Can't help but belt this one out when it comes on. Good call on Dave Clark Five. This is probably my favorite.
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    Oldies

    I am an unapologetic lover of oldies music. I'm talking 50's and 60's music. I grew up in the 80's listening to Oldies 94.5 in Houston while riding with my dad, and to this day I love the music of that generation. I find myself listening to oldie stations on Sirius more than any other music because it just puts me in a good mood. Curious what some of your favorite songs are from that era. Here are a few I've heard the past few days that even my kids had to admit they liked. I could post the entire Beatles and Stones catalog, but I'll keep my selections to other artists, as there are many to choose from. BTW, I had no idea Steve Winwood was in Spencer Davis group until I looked this song up. Of course he is. It sounds just like him.
  13. I like the line about how Elko has the Ags in really good recruiting position entering the season. I would like to know what he means by that. I guess if they lose a couple games early, the position is "If you come here you have a really good chance to start next season."
  14. Holy shit. Literally 2 days ago I was trying to remember Rodney Culver's name. I was listening to an SVPod where they were discussing Fantasy drafts, and I had a flashback when someone tried to draft Culver in the late rounds a few months after he died. I just couldn't remember his name. That was an awkward moment of people looking around deciding if we would tell the guy and let him repick, or make him live with it.
  15. Wait, KDunn came BACK to radio? I thought he left years ago to do something in the sports market.. NIL stuff rings a bell.
  16. Harbaugh as was stated above. Malzahn. And even the "defensive minded" head coaches like Pete Carroll and Coach Ogre won with teams whose main identity was their offensive firepower.
  17. Offensive minded head coaches don't win national titles? I mean...did he just start watching college football 4 years ago?
  18. I watched that 2nd video. The trophies thing doesn't bother me. We're looking for someone to win a game in the knockout round and make the quarterfinals. That's a massive step up from where we've been. I'm curious as to why his stints at PSG and Chelsea were so short. It's not like he was a failure at either club. Also, they mentioned "development of young players" as a plus. How much development does the National team really do? You get a very limited amount of time with the team each year. Development happens at the club level. Isn't the MNT about either finding players that play your style of play, or adapting your style of play to match the strength of your best players? My hope would be for the latter. The history of success in that point is what I would be prioritizing.
  19. This is interesting. In full disclosure I work at AMD, so I was genuinely interested in your point of view. I am generally less informed on the consumer side of things, both as an employee and the fact I'm not a gamer or a DIY home PC builder. So I'll take your POV on AM5 and all things Client at face value. On the server side, I've seen some shit. I absolutely don't think we've made 100% perfect decisions, but I also absolutely know people underestimate the influence Intel has on customers and the ecosystem, even years after our obvious dominance on the technology side. Our CEO made a major announcement at a event in the last 3 years regarding support from a major enterprise ecosystem partner, one that was not done on a whim and was supported by quotes by the company expressing their support, and the next week that support disappeared. We have enough insiders at this ecosystem partners to know we had met every demand for support and payment they asked for, and after the fact Intel came in with enough zeros on a check to cancel everything. I've heard enough stories from former Intel employees now at AMD to know they are fucking dirty, threatening to withold marketing payments companies rely on to stay afloat. Or friends at Dell that were told their intel spiffs werent valid unless they maintained 90% share for Intel. So when you say its about "you selling their shit for them", what I've witnessed is customers saying flat out, "I'm not selling your product unless you pay me to". It has nothing to do with proposing the best solution for customers. Even with that headwind, we're at 30% market share in server. Regarding the comment of Global Foundries, that was one of the few good things from the Hector regime. It was a "stop digging and drop the shovel" moment. And it's proven to be the right move, so not sure how that ends up in a list on how AMD has been mismanaged. In an all-timer, Hector drove his Ferrari to the office on the day he announced laying off 10% of the company.
  20. Curious why you say that
  21. What an odd thread. Most of the stuff you are bitching about lives in our fridge, too, but mainly because it takes us months to go through a bottle. Exception is soy and Worchestershire, but those are typically marinades anyway. Also hot sauce, but there is so much vinegar and little sugar and they don't really go bad.
  22. Ah, Dell. Another of my favorites. I guess if Intel suspended dividends, they don't have an extra $1B between the cushions to pay Dell to be their bitch. Sucks that honest, hardworking people will be the victims in this.
  23. Yield is important. 8C die are really easy to yield which makes for a reasonable cost structure as you said. But the other thing is the ability to scale throughput (i.e. core counts). AMD has been shipping 64C server CPUs for 5 years. Chiplets + on-chip fabric made that possible. With a monolithic design, if yielding a 64C part was even physically possible, it would be in such small volumes to make it unviable to bring to market.
  24. In the server space, the decision to move to chiplets was as important as the node advantage. They've had a process advantage and design advantage for 5 years.
  25. ding ding ding. NVidia is a SW company at this point, and they openly admit it. They have a Secretariat-sized lead over others. That's not to say others can't be profitable, but NVidia is set to dominate for a LONG time. Pretty sure the heavy rumors on 18A are that NVidia is that customer. I can't imagine placing a bet like that on Intel after the struggles they've had. Surely Jensen has a plan B. Hell, they have enough money to buy capacity at multiple fabs just to keep the competition from getting it. That would be an Intel-style move.
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