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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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I frequently keep transferring money back home (overseas). Keeping a tab on the exchange rate became quickly annoying.

I built a GitLab pipeline that fetches the current exchange rate thrice a day. Each job pushes result to a IFTTT webhook that I integrated with their Telegram service integration. I then added the @ifttt bot to a Telegram group of folks who are also interested in this.

Now, thrice a day, I get notifications about the actual exchange rate. Works like a charm.

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

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That moment when you need to fix a product before you can get a date! Anyways is it open source :D

Online dating systems aren't really optimized for much of anyone, sadly. They tend to be balanced between optimums for different user demos.

They tend to be optimized towards making money, frankly. They hold the valuable possibility of a connection with another user hostage behind bad user experiences and paywalls.

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I'm 25, and single. I'm very social, and I work out regularly. But I find it hard to approach women in the street, and I've always detested loud pubs (My hearing is slightly impaired, which makes it hard for me to communicate in such a place). So I've decided to sign in to OKCupid. I've always heard the dating scene in this site is toxic, but I've had no idea. I've too many toxic and horrible things written plainly i…

How has your experience been with their anti-scraping attempts?

Certain requests returned errors unless I've fetched them in the browser's context (pretty easy using using puppeteer). I've also been throttled. My password was reset after an aggressive scrape and I was prompted with a mail stating my account's behaviour's suspicious.

The solution was, obviously, to make my scraper run slower. :)

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I'm 25, and single. I'm very social, and I work out regularly. But I find it hard to approach women in the street, and I've always detested loud pubs (My hearing is slightly impaired, which makes it hard for me to communicate in such a place). So I've decided to sign in to OKCupid. I've always heard the dating scene in this site is toxic, but I've had no idea. I've too many toxic and horrible things written plainly i…

Good luck! I met my wife on that site.

People like you are the reason I haven't called it a day, and quit from that site

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

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I'm 25, and single. I'm very social, and I work out regularly. But I find it hard to approach women in the street, and I've always detested loud pubs (My hearing is slightly impaired, which makes it hard for me to communicate in such a place). So I've decided to sign in to OKCupid. I've always heard the dating scene in this site is toxic, but I've had no idea. I've too many toxic and horrible things written plainly i…

Would be cool if you open sourced it, I would happily add my NLP expertise to it as I have the same issues.

It's still coarse, but once I'm done it'd be awesome!

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

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I'm 25, and single. I'm very social, and I work out regularly. But I find it hard to approach women in the street, and I've always detested loud pubs (My hearing is slightly impaired, which makes it hard for me to communicate in such a place). So I've decided to sign in to OKCupid. I've always heard the dating scene in this site is toxic, but I've had no idea. I've too many toxic and horrible things written plainly i…

This sounds like a giant red flag to me. I hope you at least disclose your methods to people you contact.

I understand your concerns, to be honest. Please don't think I'm a sociopath, or a "player". I've just had too many bad experiences in this site (at one point a date told me that maybe the reason I'm not really experienced in relationships is because my parents' divorce "screwed me in the head"), have been verbally abused (Someone in the site told me that the fact I've sent her a message tells her I live in a fantasy). I've wanted to quit, but I'm shy. So shy, it feels as if this site is my only alternative. I've tried to contact okcupid's support team - I wanted them to ask them to add the options to filter out empty profiles, to reflect uncertainty in their matching algorithm (I oft see a profile with 90% ranking, only to see it's based on TWO answers!!), or to add the options to filter on the personality traits that are important to me (OKCupid allows you to filter based on people's personality traits - such us "sexpirience" or political inclinations, but they didn't allow that on traits important to me, such as "nerdiness" or "literacy" - even though they tag profiles matching these traits. They just, for reasons beyond me, don't allow you to filter that in the search page) They've refused. So I've decided to do their job, for my sake.

I'm also not taking it too seriously. This is my pet project (I'm not obsessed with it), and a place where I channel the negative residue that sticks to me from logging into that site.

I don't keep it disclosed, Aù contraire, I write that plain on my profile "I use a JS script to filter out empty profiles". Most of the people that send me a message in OKCupid don't even bother reading my profile (even though I've kept my it brief). And the ones who do find it amusing, and interesting.

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

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After starting to do groceries via an online supermarket that delivers to our home, I found it a hassle to add all ingredients one by one every time. So I "reverse engineered" the supermarket app API via a proxy, and made a tool to order recipes. When ordering a recipe, all ingredients are added to the cart. We use the tool for almost one year and it saved us a lot of time. More info + source code (Elixir, ReactJS): https://adrian-philipp.com/post/learning-elixir-second-side-...

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

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I mean, of course. It is cheaper to do that anywhere in the world. The trick is to use the washing machine more than once.

I laughed, but my impression is that due to overpopulation it's incredibly cheap to rent a human for such tasks there. It'd probably take years to spend what the machines cost, and they take space (a premium, see: overpopulation) and require maintenance.

That's one of the defining characteristics of the third world:

TCO(human labor) << TCO(automated labor)

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