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mackatsol

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About mackatsol

Mostly macOS and iOS IT Training, Tech Support and IT Consulting.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49227692

    More testing is better, so far! I'm using the same red-green-refactor TDD idea, and having Claude use Superpowers code review and running Coderabbit CLI on it all before pushing to…

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    Comment #48624646

    Pandoc is awesome for this: `pandoc input.docx -o output.md` There's more you can do, with style sheets and so on, which you will likely have to dig into for the tables and multipl…

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    Comment #48108249

    https://zensical.org/ I have no idea how the search works though!

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    Comment #47137343

    Both are bad IMHO .. a senior human analyst who accepts a 2 sentence product description? What kind of weird reality is that coming from? I’ve had a client do that too, but it’s th…

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    Comment #46842444

    You're welcome!

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    Comment #46827580

    Call Apple, in Canada the support number is 1-800-263-3394. In the US it’s 1-800-275-2273

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    Comment #46749006

    Hey, if you would be so kind as to fix all the PDF links to engineering details on your site as well as linking to the patent.. you might get responses.

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    Comment #46694946

    Can you share some of these protocols? I’m curious as to how I should approach these same issues! I like to think of it as “we didn’t fall out of the trees all that long ago, in ev…

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    Comment #46577460

    You can get an RSS feed from https://bookfeed.io with authors you want to track. Been using it for years at this point :-)

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    Comment #42218287

    Thanks, I will go have a look, much appreciated!

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    Comment #42214561

    Does anyone know of similar apps for walking/hiking trails?

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    Comment #40131797

    Thunderbird

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    Comment #40131736

    I find that doing a FaceTime audio call and having them answer on the device.. the requesting screen sharing makes it work every time. If you do a FaceTime video call they can scre…

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    Comment #40065562

    Ethernet and rsync… or an app like Superduper.

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    Comment #40035294

    Great article, thank you. Much LOL. How many usb sockets does it take to power a welder!?

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    Comment #39309725

    Set rules, not boundaries. What do I mean by that? When out for walks, we’d tell the kids that they had to stay on the path, they could go as far as they wanted.. as long as we cou…

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    Comment #39297385

    That’s a cool idea.. something perfect for an LLM, as it needs context to be accurate. You should be able to create a service wherein you select text and it swaps out predefined ac…

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    Comment #38795906

    It’s not a reliable book store either! Counterfeits, cheap reproductions, fake publishers, ai generated books, pirated content .. as well as co-mingled SKU’s. For physical and e-bo…

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    Comment #38705646

    Vernor Vinge - A fire upon the Deep, first in the Zones of Thought Series. Sarah Zettel - Fool's War David Brin's Uplift saga H Beam Piper's Fuzzy series

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    Comment #38184924

    Paul Sellers for books and YouTube, a great introduction. Lost Art Press has books and videos, Mortise and Tenon Magazine and online courses.

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    Comment #37824670

    My feedback as a freelancer.. change the struggles to questions. Instead of "Lost revenue from unaccounted hours" make me think: "Have you lost revenue due to unaccounted hours?" I…

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    Comment #37768303

    Is there an RSS feed available for the home page or any of the categories?

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    Comment #36684725

    See also Donny Dust's channel where they did a similar process. But he comes at it from the perspective of someone who knaps tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS7m6P1__HI

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    Comment #36241893

    I’m curious.. what is it about her blog that makes you feel that way?

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    Comment #35252606

    Can you give us a walk through of a session? While I think I understand what is going on, seeing it in action will make more sense. Thanks!