Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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#93,426
NorthDallas40 said:
I’d absolutely rather be around her and her honey do lists than deal with the short sided idiots in corporate America now. At least I like her.
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FYI, I'm getting TONS of offers to attend the game Saturday. Ill keep you at the top of the list but I gotta hear something soon.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Just pulled the truck into the garage after driving from the work parking lot one last time. Just threw my computer bag in the chair in the bedroom one last time (meeting my sponsor for lunch when I get back from TN to hand it back he’s off this week). Just took my badge lanyard off one last time. I am fairly certain this is it. If I wind up working there again something has gone horribly wrong. I’m more than happy to just let my protégés have the con from here on out.

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Congratulations! Not too far behind you.
 
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LouderVol said:
I haven't been able to find this yet. I checked ESPN, CBS, and others and didn't see it.

maybe its not official yet?
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Maybe not bud. I am not on SM except here. I have heard of Volreport before though so its not just a fan saying this...it could be wrong I guess. Thats just a screenshot of IG.

Much rather Golesh be at Ark than Flarda
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
I’d absolutely rather be around her and her honey do lists than deal with the short sided idiots in corporate America now. At least I like her.
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You have to be in some kind of technical field to really appreciate what it means to absolutely despise corporate America. I saw a headline about why we can't build quality speakers anymore and decided to bite. It mentioned stuff like the number of screws fastening speakers to the front plane, and how engineers know that it's critical to have a solid, flat mount, but bean counters think two screws is adequate even if it saves almost nothing per speaker and allows the speaker rim to distort. Of course, considering what passes for music these days ...

We also have a baked in tendency to provide quality and reliability. The corporate overloads want cheap, flashy, and short lifespans; they don't want products that last like those we used to have. A lot of our problems start with education that pumps out flawed theories which for now anyway fields like engineering have tried to resist.

We've seen changes like a progression from records to tape to various forms of digital - some real and startling development. New stuff generally has nothing like that progression. Current progression is simply faster processors and more memory that just allow more apps that nobody really needs and the opportunity to claim the software is dated and can no longer be supported even though the item still works just fine.
 
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AM64 said:
You have to be in some kind of technical field to really appreciate what it means to absolutely despise corporate America. I saw a headline about why we can't build quality speakers anymore and decided to bite. It mentioned stuff like the number of screws fastening speakers to the front plane, and how engineers know that it's critical to have a solid, flat mount, but bean counters think two screws is adequate even if it saves almost nothing per speaker and allows the speaker rim to distort. Of course, considering what passes for music these days ...

We also have a baked in tendency to provide quality and reliability. The corporate overloads want cheap, flashy, and short lifespans; they don't want products that last like those we used to have. A lot of our problems start with education that pumps out flawed theories which for now anyway fields like engineering have tried to resist.

We've seen changes like a progression from records to tape to various forms of digital - some real and startling development. New stuff generally has nothing like that progression. Current progression is simply faster processors and more memory that just allow more apps that nobody really needs and the opportunity to claim the software is dated and can no longer be supported even though the item still works just fine.
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With regards to software, software bloat is a real thing. When I started in this field our first embedded processors were 16 bit 8086s and about 128k of memory. This absolutely did limit us on the really complex algorithms we run today that we couldn’t back then. However it’s not all really complex algorithms. The basic stuff is overtly complex, needlessly bloated, and highly inefficient. For absolutely no benefit. And it’s only going to get worse not better because absolutely nobody is riding herd on the inefficiencies we only use it as a crutch to demand faster processors and more memory. Dumb.
 
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