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Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by oliv__ »

bochoh wrote: post #194
tga wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about a third option, ads are by definition short and repeat a lot. No fancy ML needed, after a couple of times the filter gets one of these repeating fragments it should be able to block it. Fairness bonus: you get to hear each new ad a couple of times.

The problem you have here is that in order to continue listening to songs more than just a couple of times you'd have to able to classify the song versus an ad. Otherwise once the system heard the song a few times it would start blocking it too.

Just filter by length.

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by jscholes »

YaxelPerez wrote: post #119

I used Tasker to make my phone vibrate in Morse code. Now I don't have to take it out of my pocket to read a notification.

> Now I don't have to take it out of my pocket to read a notification.

Definitely going to look into this. I'm a blind screen reader user and, when I had a phone with physical buttons, I could have it in my pocket connected to an external braille device or pair of headphones. I could easily carry on conversations, browse the web, ask for help, all sorts of things without taking it out of my pocket, and nobody had to know I was doing anything.

With a touchscreen phone I can't really do any of that. Even if I can listen to notifications in an earphone with the phone in my pocket, I can't take care of them unless I take the phone out. Plus, wearing earphones and walking around in public when you can't see isn't wise.

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by dang »

anonnel wrote: post #197
A_Person wrote: post #170

Ok, I'll bite! About 20 years ago I inherited enough money to retire on for the rest of my life. But the only evidence of those assets was, a dot matrix printout that anyone could have done in five minutes. So over the next few weeks, I created accounts in the various share registries and online banking websites, and manually cross-checked the printed list against those accounts. All was good, but I wanted to do that…

You mean I can rewrite several hundred thousand lines of VBScript for you for free? Sounds awesome. Do reach out.

That was obviously a good-humored joke.

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it a lot, and it's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by spuz »

stevekemp wrote: post #50
spuz wrote: post #18

I built an accelerometer-based washing machine sensor which sends a notification to my phone when the washing is done. This is useful because the machine itself has no indication when it's done: http://www.instructables.com/id/Washing-Machine-Notification...

I did a similar thing, via an esp8266 device and a vibration sensor! I also automated the display of tram-departures from the tram-stop next to my house with similar hardware. Otherwise I setup some "wireless buttons" to trigger alerts/actions on my Linux desktop system, and record local temperature/humidity into a time-series database for tracking purposes.

What kind of display did you use for the tram-stop times? I wanted to do something similar but worked out that the cost to update the display every minute was too much in terms of battery life even with an epaper display. Also, it was too inconvenient / ugly to use mains power.

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by nojvek »

When the dog used to wake me up in the middle of the night to drink water and take him out, I had to do to it manually. Now it’s all automated, my body just does it. 90% of brain is asleep.

I look forward to automating diaper changes when the baby arrives. The subconscious brain is an incredible piece of technology.

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by randomdata »

bochoh wrote: post #194
tga wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about a third option, ads are by definition short and repeat a lot. No fancy ML needed, after a couple of times the filter gets one of these repeating fragments it should be able to block it. Fairness bonus: you get to hear each new ad a couple of times.

The problem you have here is that in order to continue listening to songs more than just a couple of times you'd have to able to classify the song versus an ad. Otherwise once the system heard the song a few times it would start blocking it too.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. The decline in commercial music radio has been, in large part, because people quickly grow tired of hearing the same songs over and over again.

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by haskellandchill »

nojvek wrote: post #205

When the dog used to wake me up in the middle of the night to drink water and take him out, I had to do to it manually. Now it’s all automated, my body just does it. 90% of brain is asleep. I look forward to automating diaper changes when the baby arrives. The subconscious brain is an incredible piece of technology.

Yes! I call it natural computation ha

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by helsinki »

A_Person wrote: post #170

Ok, I'll bite! About 20 years ago I inherited enough money to retire on for the rest of my life. But the only evidence of those assets was, a dot matrix printout that anyone could have done in five minutes. So over the next few weeks, I created accounts in the various share registries and online banking websites, and manually cross-checked the printed list against those accounts. All was good, but I wanted to do that…

Hahaha, oh wow, that's a lot of work. I think you should learn Python and some Requests...

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by humbleMouse »

mixedbit wrote: post #141
schwarz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice, but why do you turn it off?

It enforces no internet before sleep rule. Personally I find it hard to stick to such habits just by my own will. Too often I find some excuse to turn on my laptop just to check one thing, which then turns into one hour wasted browsing random junk.

I feel like this is also a good security precaution aswell, decreases attack surface for over 50% of the day.
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