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Paying parking tickets in SF. Input my license number and CC info and it would detect and pay parking tickets that came up. There is a CAPTCHA which was trivially solvable with Tessaract OCR.
I hope it's all in good fun...
I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did - The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply for immigration. I missed it many times because there is no indication other than the "Apply" button being enabled and a small text in their homepage which says "Applications are n…
One of the biggest automation arena improvements I've made in my life is creating visual cue reminders and systems for a sort of stateful orderliness. When the laundry basket gets full past the painter tape line, I do a load. I load the dishwasher after dinner, and unload it in the morning regardless of the volume. Got a roomba that runs every other day and cries when it's full of dirt. I have NFC stickers that link…
Can you elaborate on your NFC sticker setup and how automated it is? Do you have to initiate anything manually when starting the tea or laundry for example?
So I write those links to the NFC stickers (click one on mobile)
stickers: https://www.ebay.com/i/332153052651?chn=ps&dispItem=1
Write on them with a sharpie, When I go to use it, I tap my smartphone(stock android) and it automatically launches the browser to the webapp
I have food pretty much automated using a combination of an electric stacking steamer and automatic chopping/grating machines. It's pretty amazing how much simple, precomputer, technology can do for you if you are disciplined and creative.
What hardware and software is automating these physical tasks for you?
One of the biggest automation arena improvements I've made in my life is creating visual cue reminders and systems for a sort of stateful orderliness. When the laundry basket gets full past the painter tape line, I do a load. I load the dishwasher after dinner, and unload it in the morning regardless of the volume. Got a roomba that runs every other day and cries when it's full of dirt. I have NFC stickers that link…
I'm looking to buy a basic 3D printer this week but have no significant knowledge. Mind linking the one you bought?
Caveat: You have to get around the DRM, and the software it uses to make 3d print file from an STL runs on Windows or MacOS, closed source, no Linux support. I run Windows in a VM for the slicer.
I used Nightmare ( https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare ) to automate logging into my 401(k) provider's website and fetching my current balance (no public tickers for the funds). It uploads that number somewhere and then I fetch that somewhere in a Google Sheets spreadsheet where I keep track of my portfolio.
I have food pretty much automated using a combination of an electric stacking steamer and automatic chopping/grating machines. It's pretty amazing how much simple, precomputer, technology can do for you if you are disciplined and creative.
What automatic chopping/grating machines do you have?
https://www.google.cz/search?q=kuchy%C5%88sk%C3%BD+robot+uks...
It has a round cheeze gratter and slicer which is turned by an incredibly powerful and slow motor, and whatever it is you wanted sliced or grated can simply be cramed into the thing. It has a number of attachments, including a dough mixer that is actually powerfull enough to work (and to break your arm if you're stupid). The grating/slicing attachment has an outspout and I either put the steamer tray under it or a pot.
I have food pretty much automated using a combination of an electric stacking steamer and automatic chopping/grating machines. It's pretty amazing how much simple, precomputer, technology can do for you if you are disciplined and creative.
I got into programming in 6th grade when I was addicted to the online game Runescape. My parents only allowed me to play 2 hours a day, so i downloaded some bots to farm gold for me. Within a couple months i got perm banned for macro abuse, and wanted to create a smarter bot. I began making simple edits to scripts to add randomness. I kept getting banned. By highschool i was putting more effort into coding bots than…
I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did - The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply for immigration. I missed it many times because there is no indication other than the "Apply" button being enabled and a small text in their homepage which says "Applications are n…
Not sure why you choose to do diff? You could have just searched the dom for the existence of 'Apply' button? Am i missing something?