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?
I'm not sure species identification is the issue here. It doesn't matter if 100 species are at risk or 100,000, I think most people still aren't too concerned about the environment.
Maybe for anything to get done there has to be some immediate economic benefit to the person doing the preservation. But at this point I'm not sure what that would be, or who would fund it.
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?
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
The reason I considered that the company might just hire another student is because experience has taught me that businesses tend to have consistent practices.
Cool projects make it easy to attract students. Hiring a new student increases the odds of finding someone who will go full time after graduation.
Again, this is random advice from the internet. To me, the most important piece of it is to expand your professional network, learn new things, and get business experience.
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
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
[1] https://www.inaturalist.org/ [2] https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist