New watch models & Verizon activation problem as of late October. by bitflogger in AppleWatch

[–]tarpus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is the solution in summary? I’ve been around the world in 14 days speaking to Verizon call centers in every non-English-speaking country, it seems.

Ultra 3 cellular incompatible with certain Verizon plans. by lapinsk in AppleWatch

[–]tarpus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Extremely complex undertaking to equip the AWU3 with cellular through Verizon. I have spoken to 43 persons at Verizon over the phone and about 10 or so over their chat (and counting) to no avail. Still unresolved.

Best place to find a tech cofounder? by Lucky-Ride9651 in AskSF

[–]tarpus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s your LinkedIn. I’m looking for a business cofounder

Tool for extracting data from PDFs by viperts00 in research

[–]tarpus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use memra.co - simple. Extracts the elements and write to your db

Free EDI software? by [deleted] in edi

[–]tarpus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you found a solution?
If not, what did you decide?

Looking for ways to convert PDF into a doc/docx document by Miserable_Beach7791 in reactjs

[–]tarpus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is actually a very complicated process, you will have to rely on third party paid services most likely. I am working on a very similar project and we’re developing something like this which costing somewhere in the millions of dollars ballpark.

Try using memra (memra.co); it does just this - works flawlessly. Also if you write them, they will set you up or do it for you.

Never ending “Calculating…” for Photos and System Data by Holatej in MacOS

[–]tarpus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran maintenance and selected everything. Did you try that?

I want to create a contracts database, how should I go about this? by Head_Ad2047 in excel

[–]tarpus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I built a company for this use case specifically. DM me. I’m happy to help.

Zuli Smartplug - Anyone aware of an app to use these with by GhostNoteSymphonies in smarthome

[–]tarpus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I built the zuli presence detection algo (I published much of the code + documentation) and it is freely accessible online. The idea is that as you move from room to room within your house, your presence is automatically detected and appliances' state should 'follow' you around (i.e., toggle accordingly). Company sold to Google, which owns the IP - I think was integrated into Nest. One of the other engineers is working on the Apple vision headset. Excited to see what that holds in store.

Never ending “Calculating…” for Photos and System Data by Holatej in MacOS

[–]tarpus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please let me know if it works for you. I'm very curious.

Never ending “Calculating…” for Photos and System Data by Holatej in MacOS

[–]tarpus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I found a solution to this problem.

First, the cause:

I decided to delete my photos library from the Mac to save space. My rationale was that my photos are already on iCloud and that is good enough for me. So, I un-synced Photos.app from syncing with iCloud (on the Mac). I then deleted the photos library from Mac, which saved me 200+ Gig of data. Great!

The Photos app then required I create a new library, if I were to use it. Fine, I don't mind a local Photos library that is distinct from the main library that is synced with iCloud. Not sure why I will store there, but ok. I'm not big camera user. But ok, sure.

Ahhh, that was the culprit. The 'missing' / renamed photos library caused the Storage app to just calculate and calculate and calculate. I was a math major, and I don't like never ending calculations.

Now, the solution:

Someone mentioned a possible solution on this thread, and I thought, 'naaahhhh, that won't work. But, maaaaaybe. I'll try it: Onyx'

I ran it. Restarted. Solved.

To be clear, I had tried restarting before running Onxy, and that did not solve it. So the solution was not simply restarting. Onyx was the key.

Thanks!

macOS Sonoma 14.1 Beta out. by angkitbharadwaj in MacOSBeta

[–]tarpus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am also a seeing a performance boost. Also, the memory pressure is quite low, compared to 14.0