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Post by dejv »

There is a wine grape varietal called St. Laurent which is cousin of well known Pinot Noir varietal and it originated from Burgundy, but curently you will find it mostly only in Austria, Slovakia and Czech Republic. It is interesting grape, but there are many problems with it: it is very vigorous so it take quite a lot of work to tend and the bunches are big so they tend to squeeze, crack and rot.

Thanks to cultivation dificulties as well as bad image from previous times (thanks to big yields it use to be used for poducing cheap table wines) make this varietal slowly dying: old blocks are being replanted by other varietals.

I think it is a pitty as St. Laurent wine is very interesting and quite memorable. Luckily I've bought few blocks with old vines and I am selecting plants with loose bunches and am trying to create new clone with more favorable growing characteristic.

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Post by isaacaderogba »

https://hostjupyter.com - a simple tool for publishing and sharing Jupyter notebooks.

Great thing is that I built it for myself as a way of sharing my data science portfolio (https://nbs.isaacaderogba.com/spacy-entities-model)! I decided to make it a general tool in case others wanted to use (and pay) for it. There's comfort in knowing that there'll always be at least one user.

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Post by tleb_ »

raasdnil wrote: post #192

https://secretlink.org/ - A simple way to send encrypted one time data to people. It's a no signup way to send encrypted messages to people (think usernames and passwords etc) that includes the time limited decryption key in the email we send to the target user and when the target user views the email, the message is deleted from our system. This way if the target email gets hacked in the future, the link is useless.…

I remember using this kind of service. The messaging platform I used to transmit the link tried to render a preview but that deleted the data because it was set to destroy after the first page view. Do you deal with that?

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Post by snake_case »

Puzzle Panda – https://puzzlepanda.com

I recently just launched this jigsaw puzzle website!

The reason I originally built it was for a few family members who were tired of how slow other jigsaw apps were. I wanted to build something faster and easier to use.

Even if it doesn’t take off, I have a few players already that want me to keep updating it. I don’t mind since it’s pretty cheap to host and doesn’t require any maintenance. It also serves as my first attempt at running a side business with an optional premium subscription tier. And the last thing is that it’s an experiment for me to see how well Svelte and Rust perform in production :)

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Post by DennisP »

xchaotic wrote: post #196
davehcker wrote: post #142

Vertical indoor farm to reach the highest throughout possible per cubic meter are, using only non-GMO plants by discovering the right phenomics- https://hexafarms.com Vertical indoor farms are getting a lot of attention in the recent times, but the issue is the lack of plant expertise. Even if you were to go through all the literature, you would never find a holistic study that takes into account all the optimal fact…

"By the year 2025, 63% of the world’s population will be living in cities" I wonder if Covid will revise those trends. Where I live (rural), there's plenty of unused land that needs a lot let contortions to farm (cheaper) but is indeed further away from the mouths to be fed in cities. How is the math behind urban farms vs simply shipping food into the city?

Rural areas are getting slammed pretty hard by covid. I don't think that will put the brakes on urbanization all that much.

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Post by martin-adams »

square_usual wrote: post #176
martin-adams wrote: post #21

For me it’s the Zettelkasten/smart notes app I’m working on. I’ve been a frustrated with how I take notes from books, videos, blog posts, etc. I want to build a zero-inbox style workflow around organising my notes consistently so that I can start to blog with a wealth of research and ideas at my fingertips. So I’ve started building Flowtelic. Early (no signup/in browser storage) version is live at https://app.flowtel…

Powerfully simple. I'd love to be able to self-host this, or at least use it someplace with more persistance and sync across devices.

Thanks! Yes, this is quite important. I plan for there to be a desktop version which allows you to backup/import/export your notes automatically to your own file system. Getting 100% markdown compatibility might be a challenge with some future features (like embedded images). Then there's the sync so you can jump onto different machines and continue.

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Post by blaser-waffle »

DennisP wrote: post #365
xchaotic wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"By the year 2025, 63% of the world’s population will be living in cities" I wonder if Covid will revise those trends. Where I live (rural), there's plenty of unused land that needs a lot let contortions to farm (cheaper) but is indeed further away from the mouths to be fed in cities. How is the math behind urban farms vs simply shipping food into the city?

Rural areas are getting slammed pretty hard by covid. I don't think that will put the brakes on urbanization all that much.

That's do to a comparatively lower rate of mask usage and fewer medical resources.
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