I've written a script which helps me copy-paste files from their folders in Material Design image library to my android project. This saves me at least 4 copy paste, and then renaming operations.
Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
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#12I consult the relevant XKCD to decide: https://xkcd.com/1205/
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#14All of my thesis project in immunology was automated, which involved several hours of blood processing repeated several thousand times (with some parallelization) by a team of a dozen robots. There are pics, schematics and vids here: http://www.zachbjornson.com/projects/robotics/.
I also like to say that the final analysis was automated. It was done entirely in Mathemtica notebooks that talk to a data-processing API, and can be re-ran whenever. The notebooks are getting released along with the journal article for the sake of transparency and reprodibility.
(Also, I automated my SSL cert renewal ;))
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you decide what to buy?
Hardcoded based on how I think the market will evolve in the long term, currently holding BTC, ETH, XMR, and XRP among a couple others.
Been a pretty rough week, reminds me why I should never put more than 10% of net worth here
Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
#16I have a script that downloads bank and credit card transaction data, then applies rules to create a journal in GNU Ledger format.
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#17A bot for reserving hotel rooms.
I wrote a bot to reserve hotel rooms a year in advance for a national park in the US.
It was so difficult to book. After couple days of failed attempts to reserve my desired dates, and after staying up late into the night one day, I went ahead and wrote a bot to automate the task of checking for availability and then completing the checkout process once available.
And... it worked.
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#19I have a script that downloads bank and credit card transaction data, then applies rules to create a journal in GNU Ledger format.
Do you use an API? Or just scraping? I've done the same, but stopped using it. Afraid my bank, if they detect it, might not like it.
Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
#20I consult the relevant XKCD to decide: https://xkcd.com/1205/
Jep, love that chart. Recently showed it to a colleague when we were discussing if it's was worth it to automate our domain creating processes.