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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.
My laptop buzzes loudly if I slouch or put my hands on my face. Minimal effort implementation; damianmoore/tensorflow-image-classifier, fswebcam, cron, aplay.
Can you open source this? Sounds helpful
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Thanks for the reference to sekenium etc. I know nothing about other browsers' automation capabilities, so i'll takee a look at some stage.
I’ve automated a bunch of tasks thanks to selenium. It’s really pretty simple once you get the hang of it. I’d totally recommend.
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…
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>with an upcoming earnings call in the next 90 days >quarterly by law I don't think you answered the GP's question. What is the point of looking at the earnings call date if your script just returns a full list of companies? (Or maybe when you said 90 days you meant a shorter time period?)
I did answer it. I will try to illustrate it even further. Public-ally traded companies, regardless whether they're high growth tech or not, tend to have big jumps or declines in stock price on earning calls date. Take for example Shopify. Their stock is very fast growing, however, you'll always notice a decent bump during earnings calls. I buy 30-60 days before this earnings call, because I anticipate it'll grow in…
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I want to do something similar with my Lifx lights, they would glow green in the morning if the train is 10 mins away, they would glow red if its 5 mins away which means I wont be able to walk to the station and catch it.
You need to follow a gradient
So maybe "you'll just miss the next train if you leave right now" and "you'll catch it if you leave right now" could be augmented with a third state, "hey you'd better leave RIGHT NOW if you wanna catch the train". But a slow glide from red to green is going to have too many interim states.
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> 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.
Indeed. I see two options here. First is to analyze the other signal features of the commercials (eg. increased volume), although it may be tricky. The other option is a crowd-sourced solution - pretty much as for the browser adblock - where users can mark samples recognized as ads. Since the publishers often buy campaigns for many stations in the same country or state, it may be a shared database. On the other hand,…
There were previously some FM to MP3 "ripping" tools that would use the RDS information to tag the resulting recordings -- I'm not sure of the status of them. But it could provide a good way to detect commercials, since most radio stations change to a generic station identification message when they break for commercials / banter. (Whether you'd also want to turn down for banter is another question.)
The most useful thing I have is a little script that logs into my bank, downloads a CSV and sends me the latest transaction via email daily. Saves me time to login to online banking, and also serves as a useful way to search for previous transactions inside my mailbox from time to time. Besides that I use Home Assistant[0] with a few simple automations. For example, when the lights are on in the bathroom, and it's af…
Also, there was no auto-discovery of LIFX lights and I was told I needed to re-implement the LIFX protocol from scratch because no extra dependencies were allowed in the discovery module.
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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.
https://steve.fi/Hardware/helsinki-tram-times/
I do have a couple of epaper devices, and they would be ideal but for their terribly slow update-time. I like the clock showing Time & Date (or Time & Temperature), and having epaper update every second just isn't possible. Even if it were then I suspect updating so frequently would negate the potential power-saving of using epaper in the first place.
I do have a nice epaper device for showing weather & weather-forecasts, that works on batteries and updates every 20 minutes. But for trams I update departures every 2 minutes.