We use a slow cooker which pretty much automates a lot of the process of making dinner. Just chop ingredients and throw them in. Now I just need to build a robot to chop veg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u8E-4YVANU maybe something like this ;)
Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
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#122I automated all my piracy. My NAS automatically downloads files as they are released by scene/p2p/pirate groups. Files are extracted (if compressed), renamed, metadata is added, and published on some apps like plex and trakt. Movies, TV Shows, Music.
In the same general category, I just wrote a script to download episodes of anime as they're released.
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#123I use https://torrent.express/ to integrate BitTorrent resources over HTTP. This helps with streaming, downloading and various programmatic use cases which are all better supported with HTTP.
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#124Funny enough, possibly because I work on embedded software for automating random processes, and also from home, I don't feel the need to automate anything not work related. When you spend most of your day stuck in front of a monitor, it feels good to get up and turn lights on/off.
Me too, at work (PhD student) I take enormous pleasure in writing end to end fully automated pipelines. Nothing that needs to be done more than once isnt automated pretty much. At home, I would never buy or use an Alexa/Google assistant/use Siri or any 'smart' device, I simply don't want to bother with it.
Exactly. Anything that needs even very minimal human interaction like pressing a "y" key is not automated at all. It is very common to see in the corporate environment that scripts needs some editing in b/w to be done during its running with editor which can be easily automated using sed.
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#125I wrote a book.
I have a site called http://www.correlated.org that generates funny statistics based on user-submitted data.
After several years of running it, I got a book deal. It was part of a two-part deal that also involved my other (more successful) book "Experimenting With Babies."
For the Correlated book, I wrote a bunch of code involving some seriously gnarly SQL queries and some Natural Language Generation tools, and it basically spat out the book.
There was, of course, extra manual effort needed, but the code got me about 80% there.
Here's a little more about the book:
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#126I used DSP to recognize the commercials in the radio broadcast on my stereo receiver and turn down the volume automatically ("adblock for the radio broadcast"). I described it here: http://blog.rekawek.eu/2016/02/24/radio-adblock/
> The commercial block starts and finishes with a jingle, so the potential software should recognize these specific sounds and turn off the volume between them.
I suppose that many stations don't have such markers though.
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#127Checking the status of my visa application.
that is quite cool as we are in hurry to see status before planning the trip :)
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't hear often about banks providing API access. Only big companies on special contracts may get something like that, but it is usually very limited - talking from my personal experience, but what I learnt from the internet - it's the same everywhere. But... In Europe thanks to just another EU laws we should have every bank offering an API access for everyone starting from September 2018 IIRC. That would help a l…
I'm going to be so amazed if the API (PSD2 if you want to Google it) turns out to be what we want. I'm fully expecting banks to throw extreme security hurdles and probably registration fees in the way if they can. Hopefully I will be wrong.
PSD2 is not what you think it is. It has API access, but not for the end user. Only 'integrators' will have access to these APIs. You will need to request permission to write/deploy software using the APIs. This involves massive bureaucratic overhead and in some cases permission from your country's national bank.
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#129Funny enough, possibly because I work on embedded software for automating random processes, and also from home, I don't feel the need to automate anything not work related. When you spend most of your day stuck in front of a monitor, it feels good to get up and turn lights on/off.
So this. I’ve consciously refused to install irrigation so I’ll have to go out to the garden and hang around there.
I've often commented that I'm glad I have to water the garden because it's an excuse to just stand around looking at plants.
I don't like watering grass because grass is boring and requires a ton of water, so rather than install irrigation, I ripped out all the grass and planted more interesting plants. (Drought-tolerant xeriscaping is common in my area, so this isn't unusual.)
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#130I made SigParser.com to automatically read email signatures in emails and keep SalesForce contacts up to date without having to do it all manually.