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What could tech do to make solving this problem easier? I stumbled on iNaturalist [1], a crowd-sourced platform for doing species identifications that is also (at least partly) open source [2]. What other tools could we either utilize more efficiently of create if they don't yet exist?

[1] https://www.inaturalist.org/ [2] https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist

If I recall what I've been taught correctly, the reason why viruses are not considered 'life' is that they have no metabolism of their own.

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This is most likely due to the Office bug: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/here-is-a-fix-for-mi...

Set up Akasha out of interest and it does seem really promising. Thanks for the tip!

I switched to nano recently, and it wasn't as easy as it perhaps should have been: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36802996/bash-nano-comma...

In the same vein, I'm curious about the workflow and tooling here. Being used to Visual Studio+XAML kind of WYSIWYG editing, is there anything similar in Kivy? Or do you write code, run app, close app, repeat?

Solid advice, thanks!

Hadn't really considered that the company might like to replace me with another, cheaper student. I do, however, consider my position guaranteed for at least the year's end, but I suppose that's what everyone says before they get let go..

One of the main advantages that I see in zero-hour contracts (=less time spent on the job) would give me more opportunities to participate in i.e. open source, since I'd probably not be too exhausted after a work day. This, I think, would contribute more to my growth than stagnating in the current job too much. Of course, there is the risk that the increased spare time would not be spent on anything even remotely useful.

I agree that it might make sense that it could be best to change the company, but that's something I'm not ready to do, at least in the near future. The current projects are too cool for that

I read in a local science magazine that (paraphrasing) no matter if all the cars were electric - as long as people keep flying, the amount of benzine produced would stay roughly the same, since making kerosene for the planes requires such huge amounts of raw oil. Benzine and other oil-based fuels were said to pretty much just a side product of kerosene production

We have been using http://rocket.chat at work and it works beautifully. Slack was never an option for it was not self-hostable

As I finally decided to move away from LastPass (giving Enpass a shot) and tried to delete my account, I noticed in the advanced settings that the option "Keep track of login and form fill history" was automatically turned on. This may be just to show you the "most recent logins" in the app, but nonetheless I think this setting should've been a bit more easier to access

You are absolutely correct about that the water aspect is not vertical related in any way. I'm just used to seeing vertical and aeroponics going so hand-in-hand that I totally forgot about the possibility to have horizontal aeroponic greenhouses.

I'm very curious as well about all of these water reducing efforts, since that may well be the largest thing that threatens the food supply in the coming decades.

I think that the most important potential with vertical farming is not the smaller area requirement, but the tremendous water saving that can be achieved.

For example in areas like the Middle-East, agricultural irrigation takes a huge and increasing toll on the water resources [1]. This along with the large rivers of the world (where the irrigation water usually comes from) being constantly more polluted may well increase tensions in these arid regions.

If by vertical farming techniques the need for water can be reduced as dramatically as the article states ("Aeroponic farming uses about seventy per cent less water than hydroponic farming, which grows plants in water; hydroponic farming uses seventy per cent less water than regular farming"), this by itself seems like a worthy effort for certain regions on the planet.

[1] http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/Y1860E/y1860e05.htm

I can confirm that this seems to work, although adding the spoofer somehow messed with the Netflix UI loading so that it loads maybe 1/10 previews and is otherwise all black..

Shame that it still requires spoofing the user agent. I would rather not fiddle around with that whenever I log in or out of Netflix, but would also like to send actual information to show that Firefox is being used..

Okay, fixed now!

Thanks,

I added an issue (https://github.com/simopaasisalo/MakeMaps/issues/16) and will update there when this is fixed

This is my first ever web application, and still in development. Any and all comments and tips are welcome, especially about the structure, API and other code-related aspects.

Thanks for the info, I'll look into it. Could by any chance open an issue on GitHub with some more details?

Thank you for the report. It has been auto-detecting fine for me, but I will inspect what seems to be issue. Feel free to open an issue on GitHub for easier tracking!

EDIT: What is your system language?

I've been using Leaflet for about a year now for my map editor project (http://makemaps.online/) and it's been a pleasure. The community and the plugins are awesome, and the library itself is built well and performs nicely.

This sounds like a potential (new?) attack type though. Just have software that pings certain illegal websites and bam - the target is now a paedo or whatever the attacker wishes.