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by mattferderer 4y ago
I can tell you from personal experience my family farmed very sandy soil. They did strip farming. Very few do this anymore. If you want efficiency, the common method is very wide, large areas of the same crop so you can use several very lar
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by mattferderer 4y ago
My Grandpa joked about this same thing a decade or so ago & predicted it would happen to this farmer who bought land next to him. Farmer bought land next to his & wanted a giant field of corn so he could use his very large machines
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by mattferderer 4y ago
I don't believe you can compare GOATs across eras. MJ & others have said this. Anyone playing today has been able to build upon a ton of knowledge based on what the prior GOATs did. If they're not better than players 3 decades
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by mattferderer 4y ago
> In the same way that it's often said the best way to learn something really well is to teach/explain it to others, I think the same could be said for carefully and accurately rebutting something and explaining why it's w
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by mattferderer 4y ago
This is where a tool like GPT (when it's accurate) is really helpful. I have been using it to try & generate trade-offs, disagreements & things I may not have considered. So far it's been helpful at helping me understand s
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by mattferderer 4y ago
How is this different than "what is the point learning something that is answerable by Google, an Encyclopedia or common genre specific book, a calculator, etc?"
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by mattferderer 4y ago
This looks awesome! The .NET foundation I hope supports this ASAP - https://old.dotnetfoundation.org/projects/ I don't know if it's due to "partnerships" but I never could understand why Microsoft d
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by mattferderer 4y ago
Because styling semi-complicated PDFs with CSS is a layer of hell right above e-mails & old browsers. I say this as someone who enjoys CSS & in the .NET world has used this method over things like Crystal Reports (even before they d
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by mattferderer 4y ago
Dramatically improving my learning. The ability to ask questions & ask for examples has helped me learn far faster than books, videos, blogs, etc. Yes, I know the information isn't always 100% accurate. Neither are the books, blogs
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by mattferderer 4y ago
>cars are over controlled by computer systems making them brittle and expensive to repair I've heard this many times while at auto body shops. It seems that it's not the electronic parts cost that is expensive but you have to d
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by mattferderer 4y ago
> It occurred to me that it was perhaps designed to fail rather than the mixer continuing to break the bones of the person who got their hand caught in the paddle. This is a good call out of potential other reasons an engineer team migh
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by mattferderer 4y ago
> If you own you’re paying mortgage interest and real estate taxes and both are tax deductible Side note - As I understand it, you cannot deduct either of those if you take the common standard deduction. In high cost of living places I a
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by mattferderer 4y ago
Curious if anyone realized this early & either: * tried to sabotage other employees at random by modifying their letter & leaking it * tried to sabotage a specific employee by getting their unique copy & leaking it The risk&#x2F
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by mattferderer 4y ago
How to set inflation expectations - "Inflation shoots up like a rocket & floats down like a feather."
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by mattferderer 4y ago
It took a long time to get companies to adopt 2FA. It'll take time & continued effort teaching & explaining to get more companies to move off. Each company is unique in their own reasons to not improve security.
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by mattferderer 4y ago
TLDR - Author seems to value simplicity & focusing on value for users. Doesn't like AWS/Google/etc. because they have to many advanced features. Suggests using Heroku instead. The first part I think most anyone would agre
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by mattferderer 4y ago
I'm not sure how this is an improvement compared to ICFs which look like hollow Lego blocks you put together & then fill with concrete. For anyone interested in building materials, ICF & SIP seem to be the most interesting meth
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by mattferderer 4y ago
Strong vibes - https://youtube.com/shorts/2rYV681lSGg?feature=share (Charlie Munger - People on TV selling Books) and all the people selling courses about how to sell courses.
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by mattferderer 4y ago
Reminds me of this old Big Bang Theory episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZd8sDquNYw
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by mattferderer 4y ago
That map doesn't take off shore into an account though. Lots of potential in the oceans & Great Lakes.
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by mattferderer 4y ago
Not my area but seems like if you swab cabs you would be able to keep your fleet either on the road or charging & getting maintenance. > The charge time offers time for maintenance & switching trailers > Charge times keep drop
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by mattferderer 4y ago
I'm curious who does this well? I've personally not found any specific language or framework that is better than others unless you're using their preferred libraries. At that point it depends more on the library authors than
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by mattferderer 4y ago
> First of all, the information they sell that way is 100% available for free somewhere else or is useless Just want to make a small point that people often pay not for the information but for how it's packaged. Ideally I buy things
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by mattferderer 4y ago
> (US) government doesn't necessarily incentivize self employment Can you explain here? I've found the US govt to be very incentivizing to "small businesses", which includes self employment. I'm thinking of tax b
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by mattferderer 4y ago
> Which namespace do I open to import the right extension method to register swagger generation If you use the templates provided by .NET Command Line Interface or Visual Studio, you'll get this all baked in & setup. VS also add
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by mattferderer 4y ago
Excellent video that discusses how different body types reflect how you can do squats - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av3LO2GwpAk
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by mattferderer 4y ago
1 & 4 go together very well. The biggest mistake I have witnessed, is a person putting work into a design until they thought it was "perfect/finished/happy with it" & were ready to show off. They're going in
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by mattferderer 4y ago
I know of many people who believe Google Analytics to be unnecessary & poor quality. Many would argue you can get just as good, if not better info from just using Google Search Console. None of these sources I've heard from have be
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by mattferderer 4y ago
To further add to your point, the CTO is the one who shared it here & the CEO is incredibly active on forums & social media everywhere with customers. Communication has always been one of their strengths.
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by mattferderer 4y ago
> Is all of this worth it, just to avoid having the developer think up of class names, or defining their own theme using CSS variables? Yes. You're starting out with a well thought out set of variables & themes. You can tweak if

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