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by dejv 6y ago
Of course! I do hang NFC tags around preselected vines and I did wrote small iOS app that after scanning the tag I am able to attach photos, labels or other metadata that are interesting from breeder perspecitve. I am also able to track lin
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by dejv 6y ago
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,
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by dejv 6y ago
Most of the machinery both industrial and in home are now computer controlled. Things like furnaces, CNC machining centers and lathes.
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by dejv 6y ago
Don't know about USA, but in Europe there are very strict laws about pesticide use (things like wind speed, droplet size and buffer zones) to make general public safe. As a certified agronomist (person who give orders to start spraying
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by dejv 6y ago
There are various new boards using same chip poping out everywhere (Adafruit, Sparkfun...) so availablity should not be a problem here as batch sizes of chips are huge. I am actually looking forward to see what the price of chip is going to
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by dejv 6y ago
I did work as a senior/tech lead position in multiple US startups (VC backed, seed to series A) for few years while being 100% remote. I was independent contractor billing via llc equivalent company I own. I guess it is all about posit
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by dejv 6y ago
I am building Duolingo for piano. Set of exercises in browser with midi support, I launched first two exercises as of now and adding another two next week. You can check it out at https://legatoforte.com
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by dejv 6y ago
I think that gig economy (in our programming world) do not care about having skill of 10 expert people, but having some skills in multiple areas. Lets be honest in here, most of the programming jobs are not really that complex. Be good in r
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by dejv 6y ago
https://legatoforte.com App for practicing some basic piano stuff, things like note sight reading and piano scales. Worsk best when you connect MIDI keyboard. (More exercises comming soon)
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by dejv 6y ago
Work habits will change: more freelancing and gig economy stuff will creep into white collar job marked. Also there will be new seminal book for new way of thinking about work or work life balance similar to 4-Hour Work Week was hitting ner
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by dejv 6y ago
Sure, there are plans you need to adhere to, so you can get quality you need (and you need to keep records of what, when and how much you spray and calculate if you are within limit, depending on country and form of agriculture practice you
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by dejv 6y ago
I must have finished like 15 projects that was meant to be generating money and was technically capable to do that. Biggest failure was SAAS for organizing wineries and generating reports for carious government bodies. There are various old
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by dejv 6y ago
Well, it is actually bike path. I can't talk about whole road, but at the leg through the Czech republic is actually well marked on each intersection. Here is a map I found: https://en.eurovelo.com/ev9 This route actua
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by dejv 6y ago
Not the best known, but still beautiful and very varied is Amber Road that goes from Russia through Baltics, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary and down to the Venice or even Rome. 2000km in total. Bonus point you will cross my vineya
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by dejv 6y ago
Antivirus software is quite strong in EU: Avast and AVG (acquired by Avast) come to mind.
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by dejv 6y ago
EU power is in niches. There are many companies specialised equipment, are worth billions and if you are not in that niche you probably never hear pf them. For example most of electron microscopes are developed and manufactured in EU. (Actu
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by dejv 6y ago
There is a niche for small scale farms, but those had to be run like a business. And let me tell you it is tough business to run with high capital costs and low margins. Huge companies have many advantages in certain production areas, but t
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by dejv 6y ago
Well, the time window in which you should do certain farming operation without product degradation is often quite short and having smaller tractor doing it autonomously might not cut it. Once you need to buy few of those to replace one you
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by dejv 6y ago
As a farmer I am interested buying one, especially as I am using tractors for light work: spraying, towing and light field work. There are few hacked tractors already available, but it will take some time before supply chain mature enough.
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by dejv 6y ago
Unfortunately lots of them were lost back in 50s and 60s with advent of seed companies. Also in Europe selling seeds of non approved varietals is not possible. Legislation is changing slowly, but a lot of diversity is lost forever. What you
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by dejv 6y ago
Well, even growing your own tomatoes might not help that much. Modern hybrid varietals are breeded for color uniformity which removed the taste. Let me tell you it is quite hard to source real heirloom varietals: there are tons of new &quot
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by dejv 6y ago
Any recommendations on good books that cover FPGA programming?
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by dejv 6y ago
I used to work more randomly when I was starting, but I am now having strict routine with set working hours. That makes it easy to bill by man-days. Decision is usually by customer, I am trying to go with having man-days as billable unit as
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by dejv 6y ago
Organic farmer here: I haven't seen country that allow herbicides for use in organic farming. Speaking of different pesticides you are basically left with nonsystematic fungicides (a lot of them as sulfur or copper based) and biologica
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by dejv 6y ago
I am soon going to be freelancing for 20 years and I must say it is still per client basis. There are projects billed hourly, there are fixed scoped projects and retainers with some time budgets. I would stay away trying to be super detaile
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by dejv 6y ago
It is more like email or two to get what you need. No need to employ fulltime person to handle it.
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by dejv 6y ago
I can't remember the name of vendor, but they were from some niche manufacturer of professional machine vision cameras from Germany. Each of those cost few 1000s euros. Almost anything for industrial use cost you a leg and then some. I
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by dejv 6y ago
I worked on optical sorting project that use cameras to scan many 1000s of small berries a second and you had around 10ms to extract each berry from video stream, calculate the center of object, decide if quality is good enough and schedule
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by dejv 6y ago
You don’t want to buy via distributor as a non-hobby person anyway. NVIDIA have a strong partner programs that hook you up with boards you need and with different pricing.
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by dejv 6y ago
Transportation should be around 5-8%.

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