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Is there any plan on adding built in FTP capabilities?, I would love to get rid of my current IDE and use VSC but is a hassle changing the code there and uploading using some FTP client



I had a cron job that sends automatically a text to my wife each morning along with a joke, she's in another country so is something I did to keep the communication open


You automated a part of your relationship. This is awesome!


Reminds me of this reddit user that automated 'liking' his girlfriend's Instagram posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/70udwq/what_routine...


This is a great suggestion - will add it asap!


I thought so too, until I realize she could immediately call and ask what do I think about the picture.


Like + email with the picture? :)


Just spin up a good computer vision algorithm!


Reminds me of the day when, while helping debugging stuff on my father's old Solaris server, I came across a email_birthday.sh script run by a cronjob every year at my mother's birthday.

They are happily married for more than 40 years and counting ^^.


this is another webjob I did but for my father's business, it sends the company's clients an email and text wishing them happy birthday :)


This sounds terrible. Even more terrible a lot of people (probably you also) don't find it terrible.


No reason to be so harsh. She's married to a techie. This is a techie thing to bring a little bit of happiness is all.

You're acting like he used a markov bot to reply to all his wife's messages.


Imagine two Neural Nets trained by husband and wife to do the usual conversations. Now add a solarcell and a speaker- and some noise generator for starters on a gravestone- and long after the couple is gone, the beloved ones arguing goes on.

This is brilliant! No, it is not, this is one of your worser ideas. Oh, Madam is constructive again today. You want me to say my true opion or not.. This is how you always swing that- no matter how rude - its freedom of expression in danger.


I feel like this is an SMBC comic not yet illustrated.


No point arguing over whether this was harsh or justified--what matters is how GGP's spouse feels about it.


You might have a case if 'hellothere007 doesn't write the jokes. I interpreted their post as meaning they write the jokes, queue them up with the cron job, and use it to schedule them for delivery at some time more appropriate to the wife's timezone.


Damn am I so old school that I prefer real voice (and believe me, Skype over Hotel networks is awful (and floss alternatives are no better), but that's better than nothing). Automating that part of my life seems so soulless...


I like voice better of course but what I didn't mention is that the cost per minute if I call her is $0.60 and that quickly adds up and she doesn't have internet over there, so if a text costs me $0.003 I might as well be using it


Ahhhh... Now I get it. And was bout to post something along the lines : "well, I shouldn't have judged like that, I don't the complete picture, maybe he has some good reasons...

Now, to be more constructive, where do you get your jokes ? Do you write them yourself or have you some kind of database ?


Did the text message come from a separate account or were you able to use your cell phone number? how did this work?


it was an azure webjob using twilio api to send the message, I randomized the time and the selection of jokes to make it seem like I was doing it :)


well, you can find someone willing to sponsor your visa but they can't, they aren't allowed to, and if the leave the "mission" they are considered traitors or deserters and get exiled for 8 years


I had the luck of leaving Cuba 4 years ago and then my family came as well, my mother was a doctor for 25 years and I had asked her a lot of questions about why doctors left to go on a "mission" to any of these countries.

One of the incentives the Cuban Government used to use to make doctors go to those "missions" as they call it in Cuba, is that once they have finished it they were allowed to buy a house or car, I say allowed because until recently you couldn't buy any of it without the government authorization.

Nowadays they used another technique which is; we will allow you to bring back 1 container ( those in ships) full of whatever you want, as usual the with the government they haven't been allowing it even though those doctors already spent 2-3 years on the "mission" so those people went there with that promise and it turn got nothing.In Cuba the whole idea of making 1.3k/month sounds great and many doctors blindly agree to go without knowing first how much they will spend on food/clothes/supplements etc, but of course they can't really look up that information because internet until recently was non existent and nowadays WIFI access cost $1.5/hr ( CUC) which is their salary of a fully day.

Of course that's modern day slavery, the government acts as your owner, they set the condition and can change it at will, if you don't abide them, well you have two options: - back to Cuba in 24 hours and be prepare to have your doctor's license removed - stay in the country and be exiled for 8 years.

PS: Until recently, doctors in Cuba weren't allowed to leave the country under any circumstances except for "missions", the government train of thoughts is " I own all these people".


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