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    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to All on Tue Feb 17 23:41:09 2026
    Hello All,

    I discovered that if I feed Copilot a recipe from a website or as PDF, it will happily generate a MM-formatted recipe for me. So I am going through a HUGE backlog of receipes I've saved as PDFs from Betty Crocker, Allrecipes, Taste of Home, et al.

    So I'm hoping to do this once my schedule frees up and start posting more of these recipes I've found.

    I have been busy working on my minivan and doctor's appointments; this week is one every day!

    -- Sean

    P.S. I do not post a recipe when posting from my BBS machine directly as I have to write a script that will make posting a recipe a lot easier than doing manually.

    ... "Only the educated are free." - Epictetus
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  • From MIKE POWELL@1:2320/195 to SEAN DENNIS on Wed Feb 18 08:20:00 2026
    I discovered that if I feed Copilot a recipe from a website or as PDF, it wil happily generate a MM-formatted recipe for me. So I am going through a HUGE backlog of receipes I've saved as PDFs from Betty Crocker, Allrecipes, Taste of Home, et al.

    Nice!

    As skeptical as I am about AI, the past day or so has been interesting. I
    was trying to get some older FOSS code to compile. I fed a couple of
    errors into google and, pretty soon, had a 3 or so hour conversation going that eventually got all the compile errors fixed. It still isn't working
    quite right, but I am hoping to use Gemini some more to clean the issue
    up.

    Since it will one day be leading our robot overlords, I guess I might as
    well get used to it now. ;)

    Mike
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to MIKE POWELL on Wed Feb 18 18:11:59 2026
    Hello MIKE,

    18 Feb 26 08:20, you wrote to me:

    I discovered that if I feed Copilot a recipe from a website or as
    PDF, it wil happily generate a MM-formatted recipe for me. So I am
    going through a HUGE backlog of receipes I've saved as PDFs from
    Betty Crocker, Allrecipes, Taste of Home, et al.

    Nice!

    It's very quick and Copilot formats them cottectly, even using MMMMM headers to seperate ingredients and directions.

    Since it will one day be leading our robot overlords, I guess I might
    as well get used to it now. ;)

    AI is good for some things and lousy for others. I just happened to find one thing it's good at.

    -- Sean

    ... Making up your mind is the hard part. The rest is pure work.
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    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200)