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by mattferderer 3y ago
No one has been stung by a bee due to clover in our yard & shoes are rarely worn which I why I mentioned how it's often nicer to walk on than grass. Couple important notes from our yard. * Our yard is mowed fairly frequently so wh
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Highly recommend clover mixed in grass or instead of grass if it's native to your area. During parts of the day you can watch a giant ecosystem of different types of bees & other insects flying in it. Ours is softer than grass. It
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by mattferderer 3y ago
It's been well over 2 years since I tried it out & I thought the Elixir docs were really awesome when I did it. They had great walk throughs to getting started. I also did Rob Conery's Elixir tutorial which was fun - https:&#
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Didn't Microsoft just spend a year in court with their top VPs & CEO fighting against the UK & US governments over cloud gaming so that they could buy Activision for roughly $70 billion? I believe they had to make concessions w
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Do you carry an extra mobile device specific to them as well? I've worked with school districts & non-profits. They're all mixing that stuff up on the same devices. Same with most smaller businesses. The one device thing would
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by mattferderer 3y ago
This is going to be very bad for anyone with multiple Microsoft accounts on one computer. I don't see how Microsoft keeps OneDrive data separate. Microsoft has not done a good job at keeping stuff separate. If you login to Outlook, Tea
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by mattferderer 3y ago
I've been enjoying watching the app Artifact progress - https://artifact.news It's been a news aggregation app so far but with some nice features (article summary, read aloud, reader mode). They just launched the abili
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the point of a driver in something like this besides to have a human in the vehicle adding weight? Are they doing much? Serious & maybe very ignorant question. - Edit - For clarification, my reason for aski
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by mattferderer 3y ago
I think that data science & web competition is at least 80% but I'm going to throw out a few possible ideas that I haven't seen mentioned that may have helped. Maybe I'm way off base though. * Udacity's popularity. I
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Yes, this is often forgotten. I've always assumed it's the biggest reason for Microsoft basically doing less & being more or a cash cow during the Ballmer years (similar to Apple's current philosophy with a CFO as CEO). T
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by mattferderer 3y ago
IE was super strict on the standards it seemed. Can't remember the specifics anymore but it seemed something would work in CSS or JS on Chrome but not IE. Then I would look up & IE was correct but Chrome was adding features that ma
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Not sure how using Cloudflare is more work than setting up your own LAMP VM or installing WordPress on a SaaS even. People put up fake WordPress logins as honey pots. I'm not sure what to say to this. If you host a WordPress site you&#
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by mattferderer 3y ago
I like Azure, GitHub, AWS for a lot of things but Cloudflare has it's niches that are just better. I haven't read into why Open AI uses Cloudflare instead of Azure services but I find it very interesting considering their Microsof
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Exactly this. The amount of cost & time to make a (WordPress/Drupal/random database backed CMS website) site run well on a cheap VM is significantly higher than Cloudflare's free & paid options. Those aren't my f
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Some things that have caught my attention & made me buy a 2nd hard drive to eventually get around to installing v11 & dual booting. I don't trust 11 based on what I've heard from friends, colleagues & Microsoft's
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by mattferderer 3y ago
US is similar in some locations (I can't speak for all as I'm sure it varies greatly). I pay a connection fee to use the utility that some months cost more than I pay for electricity. On average half my bill is a fixed connectivit
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Same can be said about the results that pop up on your favorite search engine or asking other people questions. If anything advances in AI & search tech will do a better job at providing citations that agree & disagree with the resu
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by mattferderer 3y ago
If Microsoft focused more on improving their browser & marketing it to every day people (outside of cramming ads in their OS) they might not need such dark patterns. Honestly, I like Edge more than Firefox & Chrome. The only thing I
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by mattferderer 3y ago
I haven't read anything that makes the CMA look good yet & I'm trying to be impartial. If this is there definition of cloud gaming, how do phones come into play? They seem like a far bigger market that doesn't require add
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by mattferderer 3y ago
This might be a bad time to tell you that they might be getting paid out in terms of $2.5 - 3 billion for the deal falling through.
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Windows 8 & Windows phone had a lot of good things going for it that would eventually get no resources & thrown out. They also had many design ideas borrowed by iOS & Android.
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Microsoft would be wise to focus on quality of service, especially now with their Open AI partnership. Make me more productive & I'll gladly go find how I can upgrade my Microsoft services when I need to, no ads needed that add neg
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by mattferderer 4y ago
Both! Write it down to read it & not forget it. Write it down because the process often helps me better think about the problem & reasons my initial assumptions were wrong. Can't tell you how many times my clever initial idea b
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by mattferderer 4y ago
I don't disagree but... If you're having a huge issue with this, I suggest trying to find ways to hold less context at one time. Write stuff down & get it out of your head more often. Write down all of your ideas & break d
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by mattferderer 4y ago
It seems "independent journalists" have started becoming popular. I see more of that. Maybe someone allows you to group a bunch of them for a discount & sends you some sort of new text, audio & video that's specific t
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by mattferderer 4y ago
I've seen headlines of 1 major publication that's been non-stop ChatGPT is evil for the past month. I don't think it replaces real journalists. Real journalism just got much easier to do & analyze research. I will gladly
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by mattferderer 4y ago
Not saying Ballmer was great or bad but it could be argued that the US Government handicapped Microsoft more than Ballmer was a bad CEO. To my understanding Gates was also very active with the company during those years as well. Ballmer inh
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by mattferderer 4y ago
Semi-related, check out Snipd for podcasts. As a former 2x podcast & audible listener, I prefer there style of consumption. I can still listen at a reasonable 1.5x (or faster if you wish). They have transcriptions you can use to read al
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by mattferderer 4y ago
With very few exceptions, I have not seen publishers doing that over the past few decades. I see no brevity & the curation of facts is a topic for another day....
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by mattferderer 4y ago
I've had fun doing bedtime stories by having ChatGPT create a book about a subject & a character names we agree upon. It's a great way to get into reading. In a way, it's similar to choose your own adventure style books.

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