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Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

rclone systemd service

Preparation

This service will use the same remote name you specified when using rclone config create. If you haven't done that yet, do so now.

Next, create the mountpoint for your remote. The service uses the location ~/mnt/<remote> by default.

mkdir ~/mnt/dropbox

Using Python 3 + Google Cloud Vision API's OCR to extract text from photos and scanned documents

Just a quickie test in Python 3 (using Requests) to see if Google Cloud Vision can be used to effectively OCR a scanned data table and preserve its structure, in the way that products such as ABBYY FineReader can OCR an image and provide Excel-ready output.

The short answer: No. While Cloud Vision provides bounding polygon coordinates in its output, it doesn't provide it at the word or region level, which would be needed to then calculate the data delimiters.

On the other hand, the OCR quality is pretty good, if you just need to identify text anywhere in an image, without regards to its physical coordinates. I've included two examples:

####### 1. A low-resolution photo of road signs

Installing Node.js with `nvm` to Linux & macOS & WSL

A quick guide on how to setup Node.js development environment.

Install `nvm` for managing Node.js versions

nvm allows installing several versions of Node.js to the same system. Sometimes applications require a certain versions of Node.js to work. Having the flexibility of using specific versions can help.

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Original solution sacrifices new api lint check.

Here my solution:

int minSdk = hasProperty('minSdk') ? minSdk.toInteger() : 16

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
 compileSdkVersion 23

	val spanned = spannable{ bold("some") + italic(" formatted") + color(Color.RED, " text") }

	val nested = spannable{ bold(italic("nested ")) + url("www.google.com", "text") }

	val noWrapping = bold("no ") + sub("wrapping ) + sup("also ") + "works"

	text_view.text = spanned + nested + noWrapping

	Hi All!

	I've recently launched a tool that wraps many of the commands here with a user interface. This desktop application is currently available for macOS. There's a roadmap outlining planned features for the near future.
	Feel free to request any features you'd like to see, and I'll prioritize them accordingly.
	One of the most important aspects of this application is that every command executed behind the scenes is displayed in a special log section. This allows you to see exactly what’s happening and learn from it.

	Here's the link to the repository: https://github.com/Pulimet/ADBugger

	App Description:
	ADBugger is a desktop tool designed for debugging and QA of Android devices and emulators. It simplifies testing, debugging, and performance analysis by offering device management, automated testing, log analysis, and remote control capabilities. This ensures smooth app performance across various setups.

	task deployApks(type:Copy) {
	description = "Copies APKs and Proguard mappings to the deploy directory"
	def appName = "posture";
	def versionDir = android.defaultConfig.versionName+"_"+android.defaultConfig.versionCode;

	println("Copies APK and Proguard to " + versionDir)

	from 'build/outputs/mapping/release/'
	include '**/mapping.txt'
	into '../.admin/deploy/' + versionDir

	/**
	* WHY? - BECAUSE EXCEPTIONS/TRY/CATCH IS A GLOBAL HORRIBLE MESS :-(
	* Check out error handling in golang: https://blog.golang.org/error-handling-and-go
	*/

	/**
	* Wrap an "unsafe" promise
	*/
	function safePromise(promise) {
	return promise

	apply from: 'release.gradle'


	android{
	productFlavors {
	dev {
	//...
	}
	//...
	}