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Re: Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?

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Post by makenova »

nness wrote: post #378
wynnvonn wrote: post #212

Dodging the f *ing lightning in the desert area of FFX. I spent hours in that section as a kid, never managing to dodge more than 20 bolts in a row... When it came out for PC, it was time for revenge! I captured video input with a simple python+QT script and emitted a button-press whenever the screen flashed. The best part was that the script didn't interfere with my controller - I could run around the area opening c…

Similarly, the game "Hyper Light Drifter" had a number of challenges, and even a pretty hefty achievement, which required the character to dash really quickly without touching any boundaries. On PC, you could use a keyboard script to repeatedly press the dash key every 500ms and steer with the mouse. Something that was pretty difficult with a controller.

I loved this game! I got the achievement by going back and forth in the same spot. I used a dual shock controller.

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Post by jamescampbell »

mintplant wrote: post #96

I have a system built on top of Calibre's "recipe" scripts which scans a set of RSS feeds every day at 3am for new articles, scrapes and cleans the full content where necessary, bundles them into .mobi ebooks, and sends them to my Kindle's email address. Amazon's network wirelessly delivers them overnight, and I wake up in the morning with a fresh batch of reading material. It's like a personalized newspaper subscrip…

Been using my tt-rss instance and Fiery Feeds on my iphone for a while now. Fiery Feeds does some magic to get the full articles in case they only display preview snippets.

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Post by inetknght »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #671
inetknght wrote: post #361

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When you say parking tickets, as in plural, it really makes wonder what kind of person would rack up so many parking tickets to make that worthwhile. I hope it's all in good fun...

You ever tried parking in San Francisco? (But seriously, it was very likely not worth it for me to have done this, although I imagine a 'fixed'-like [1] service but that just pays the tickets might be something would pay an extra few dollars for). [1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/15/fixed-the-app-that-helps-y...

Nah, I avoid SF and SV like the plague. Too many people.

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Post by auvrw »

philsnow wrote: post #261
auvrw wrote: post #131

making animated gifs https://github.com/ransomw/dotfiles/blob/master/shutils/gifm... ... and some other stuff, but that's probably the most important.

why do you extract the frames as jpgs instead of something lossless ? I expect you'll get better quality, smaller gifs with less noise if you use pngs instead.

combination of "meh" and "derp" noises on the silly script as i moved on to the next one-off ffmpeg wrapper

https://github.com/ransomw/dotfiles#add_textsh

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Post by piccolbo »

I got tired to skim hundreds of RSS feeds, some very noisy. So I created an NLP and ML-powered RSS proxy that scores each message for "interestingness" and re-delivers it. "Interestingness" is a purely subjective classification based on explicit and implicit feedback. Still work in progress, but in production (one client, me). It's a new take on an old project. The old one used beautiful soup, bag-of-words features and SVMs and learned too slowly. The new one uses boilerpipe, sentence vector mapping and logistic regression and is good enough. It's not me, it is the whole field that has improved so much in a decade. I haven't thought about anyone else using it. If you want to try, you'll have to fight through the installation a bit. Open an issue if needed. https://github.com/piccolbo/rightload

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Post by adrip »

A few months ago we changed our grocery shopping habits. Instead of going to a store a few times a week, we now order ingredients via an app and get them delivered the next day. Usually we order two times a week. When ordering, we plan what we are going to eat in the next 3-4 days.

Every time when we order we think of recipes to cook and their ingredients. Then we add every ingredient to the app. We also add essential ingredients like milk or eggs if we need them.

Automating this process sounded fun. The idea was born to speed up our grocery shopping by ordering recipes and their ingredients via the (reverse engineered) supermarket API.

I blogged about it: https://adrian-philipp.com/post/learning-elixir-second-side-.... Source: https://github.com/adri/picape

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Post by _tsz4 »

_tsz4 wrote: post #343
kristofferR wrote: post #325

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Man, this is awesome. Now that Firefox has become so vastly better than Chrome (who would have expected that a year ago?) you should port it to Firefox too.

interesting. ive heard this a lot. will port it

Firefox port done: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/harvest-grow-...

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Post by jpetersonmn »

My most recent thing I did after getting a macbook was write a python script that went through interfacelift.com and downloaded all of the desktop images for my specific screen resolution. They sell them all in a zip for like $40 but it felt better getting them for free.(almost free, took about 30 minutes to write the script)

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Post by literallycancer »

rodjomatic wrote: post #673
literallycancer wrote: post #557

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Helps with the volatility.

Do you have any special way of avoiding transaction fees? It would seem to me that buying a small amount daily would rack up lots of transaction fees?

The exchange usually gives better rates to people who do larger transactions, but the monthly volume would be the important indicator, rather than single transaction volume.
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