TPM Toothpaste Picking Manager

Let me pick the toothpaste for you(or how to brush your teeth admins way)

0. Clone the repository to ~/tpm and make it:

git clone https://github.com/notlibrary/tpm.git

Linux(Ubuntu): make

Windows: nmake.exe /f .\Makefile.msc

1. Define the available(what is in the bathroom) toothpastes in the CSV format file with path ~/tpm/toothpastes see ~/tpm/toothpastes.sample below for format details
2. Put TPM in the daily crontab or task scheduler task to run it daily(or twice a day)

Windows: schtasks /create /tn "TPM" /tr "C:\Program Files\tpm\tpm.exe" /sc daily /st 09:00

Linux(Ubuntu): crontab -e then append this line: 00 9 * * * /usr/local/bin/tpm

I don't do this step automatically from code because cron is not portable solution and each user has different brush time different timezone and different terminal it's users who should spent 5 minutes to figure things out and schedule the underlying task as they wish it's simple enough operation for most systems

3. Enjoy the machine doing it for you

Tiny simple terminal console C program with maximum utility and zero maintenance burden

What if Chekhov is alive and is a C programmer?

Linux build also has tpm.1 manual included

Sample terminal output from verbose mode:

Good Morning Serenity Welcome to the toothpaste picking manager
Already picked today
Pick type: Default
Toothpaste: >>> SENSODYNE (150g) [100/100] <<< Day: Saturday 20512 Toothpaste index: 1/3
Total picks: 7 Last pick time: 1772266460

Press any key to continue . . .

Sample JSON output:

{
         "who":"Anonymous",
         "toothpaste":"Unknown",
         "tube_mass_g":666,
		 "rating":50
}

Because working with JSON without the special library is complicated it outputs only 4 fields JSON

Basically it automatically answers the question "Which toothpaste I should use today?" by picking it from the predefined available toothpastes linked list using total epoch days mod total available toothpastes as the list index I started coding it when found 3 different toothpaste tubes in the bathroom

It supports 8 toothpaste picking methods calling picking types: Default, Random, By index, By Brand, Max rating, Max tube mass, Min rating, Min tube mas

Here is the analog sqlite query that do default picking type:

SELECT * FROM toothpastes WHERE id=mod((SELECT CAST(unixepoch('now') / 86400 AS INTEGER)), (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM toothpastes)) LIMIT 1;

Also the pick.sql contains other sql queries for different picking types.

The point is in fact you do not need sqlite postgres or lmdb to perform a single pick operation and sometimes even the single pick is more than enough

How many sqliters does it take to pick the toothpaste? NULL

It ubiquitous portability is rather the feature than a bug

It will be trying to use local computer terminals to pick up the toothpaste long after you die till the heat death of Universe probably

Moreover it does not even care about the download counter if you do not brush your teeth you end with dental rot plague sad but true software nerds has little to offer here

To cope you may try to treat it as a hobby bird watching butterfly collecting fishing toothpaste picking

Command line options

-a --rating pick the toothpaste with highest rating

-w --weight pick the toothpaste with highest tube weight

-j --json output the JSON with last pick info instead toothpaste picking string

-v --version show the toothpaste picking manager version

-x --random perform a random toothpaste pick

-q --quiet the quiet toothpaste pick

-l --list list the available toothpastes

-r --reset reset the total toothpaste picks counter

-o --output pick_output_file output toothpaste picking string or JSON to the text file pick_output_file

-c --config config_file load the custom configuration file config file

-t --stats pick_stats output the pick stats to pick_stats file

-s --counter [counter_value] set the total toothpaste picks counter

-p --type [toothpaste_pick_type_value] set the toothpaste pick type value

-i --index [toothpaste_index] pick the toothpaste by index

-b --brand [toothpaste_brand] pick the toothpaste by brand

-z --timezone [delta_hours] set the timezone hours [-11,11] lag manually

-d --delta [delta_days] pick the toothpaste with default method in the future or the past

toothpastes_path path to the toothpastes CSV file

Configuration file options

The configuration is located in ~/tpm/tpm.conf file It's options:

LOAD_CONFIG loads the configuration file tpm.conf from specific path

USERNAME override the username

PICK_TYPE set the toothpaste pick type [0,7] number for Default, Random, By index, By brand, Max rating, Max tube mass, Min rating, Min tube mas

VERBOSE 0 for the quiet toothpaste pick

TOOTHPASTES the toothpastes list CSV full file name

LAST_PICK the last pick file location

PICK_STATS the pick stats file location

LIST_TOOTHPASTES 1 to list the available toothpastes

OUTPUT_JSON 1 to output the JSON with toothpaste pick

OUTPUT_FILE 1 to output to the file ~tpm/last_pick

PICK_INDEX pick the toothpaste by this index if PICK_TYPE=2

BRAND pick the toothpaste by this brand if PICK_TYPE=3

RESET_COUNTER 1 to reset the toothpaste pick counter

SET_COUNTER not 0 to set the toothpaste pick counter

TIMEZONE set the timezone hours [-11,11] lag manually

DELTA_DAYS pick the toothpaste with default method in the future or the past

TPM Toothpastes Picking Manager Configuration Sample

[CONSTANTS]
LOAD_CONFIG="C:\Users\Anonymous\tpm\tpm.conf"
DEFAULT=0
TRUE=1
FALSE=0
[GENERAL]
USERNAME="Anonymous"
PICK_TYPE=DEFAULT
VERBOSE=TRUE
TOOTHPASTES="C:\Users\Anonymous\tpm\toothpastes"
LAST_PICK="C:\Users\Anonymous\tpm\last_pick"
PICK_STATS="C:\Users\Anonymous\tpm\pickstats"
LIST_TOOTHPASTES=FALSE
OUTPUT_JSON=FALSE
OUTPUT_FILE=FALSE
PICK_INDEX=0
RESET_COUNTER=FALSE
SET_COUNTER=0
BRAND="Unknown"
TIMEZONE=0
DELTA_DAYS=0

TPM The Toothpastes Picking Manager Files List

~/tpm/toothpastes the CSV toothpastes list

~/tpm/tpm.conf the TPM configuration file

~/tpm/pickstats the toothpaste pick stats binary file

~/tpm/last_pick the last toothpaste pick output message string or JSON file

TPM The Toothpastes Picking Manager Toothpastes List CSV format sample

#Index,Brand string,Tube mass grams,Rating
0,Random Toothpaste 1,100,85
1,Random Toothpaste 2,50,90
2,Random Toothpaste 3,150,100
3,Random Toothpaste 4,50,100
4,Nothing,0,0

Sure you can pick anything this way not only toothpastes Food beverages clothes gym exercises meds even linux commands moreover you can recursively pick the toothpaste pick type(method) itself but there is no meaning in it pick the toothpaste in the bathroom is obvious useful default solution for most people

The default guardian line limit is set to 1024

The max brand string length is 128

Per component reverse engineering and pick by AI

This is the advanced topic the key point is that make a new toothpaste is cheaper than reverse engineer the old one so AI simply has not enough data to base on and thus it's picking in the best case is no better than random even with carefully designed system prompts

Another approach is to treat anything as toothpaste component then store the empirically successful compounds in the special database again agent without access to this db means it can't produce useful pick

Or you can hold the master chemistry technology degree and have 20 years of practical experience so you just know what toothpaste components are in reality then my question is what the hell are you doing with my repo sir? Am I good?

So open source toothpaste is just a daydream

Why use this program at all?

Nice try

It takes the single cron slot and list of toothpastes one single time

It gives the long string about happening toothpaste picking process for a lifetime for free

Judge for yourself if this is a good deal or not and why

• It works on low level in harsh environments when the internet is down unavailable or blocked by the government firewall
• Of course it runs on the toaster with zero system requirements
• It serves the basic crucial user need independently OS type SQL support just does not matter
• It helps utilize the 5$ VPSes and old computers including SBCs by running on them useful payload
• It has perfectly fine sane regular ordinary usual predictable behavior(almost pedantic) that makes perfect sense
• And finally it's the tiny size less than 32KB almost two times smaller than LMDB (Windows .exe however has 200KB builtin .ico)

OK program is good users are bad what now? You are getting it just pick again you have ~30000 tries per lifetime Also this program itself defines the whole new software genre "toothpaste picking managers" like file managers window managers database managers device managers etc

I'm not joking if you know how to do it better make pull request and show me the code

P.S. Do not forget to brush your hard disk with dd and rm -rf / toothpastes twice a day