The more modest a developer is, the smaller the application version increments. Some indie coders add brilliant new functionality, and change the version from 0.9 to 0.9.1, while corporations often add a few minor improvements once a year, and jump from 1.0 to 2.0.
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Does anyone know of a (free or cheap) software that can convert handwritten text from pictures to computer written?
I have a few notebooks I wrote in erasable ink I'd like to convert before the ink fades away completely, and I'd like an easier way than meticously rewriting it on the pc
I'm hungry to learn #programming. I haven't touched code since Visual Basic and HTML4 in the 90s. Any suggestions on where to start? What's a good language to begin with? Text/web recommendations?
@mezz@jezebelley I would agree with this too. Python is great, but it's very easy to make mistakes and not know why things work sometimes. It's a nice 2nd language and a requirement if you want to get into machine learning.
C# and Java are very similar, but my personal bias is to C# given its implementation of generics (something you'll learn about later). It's also extremely easy to create an executable with C#. I'm sure it's possible with Java, but I've not dug too deep into it.
If you were getting a computer science degree today, the professor might first have you jump into C++. So if your goal is to learn first, create second, C++ will absolutely teach you the fundamentals that C# hides from you.
I absolutely love Rust, but it would have been an overwhelming challenge to learn Rust first. I would never suggest it as a first language.
Let me start this by saying that I know there are people and creators out there this absolutely does not apply to, I just need to vent. I understand that different #programming languages are going to have different ways they set up the #GUI but surely if the #program is already complete and the various elements like buttons, check boxes, drop downs and so forth are there it doesn't take but a few minutes to go back into where they get created on a static display and to put #labels on them so that a #screenreader can detect them properly. I really hate pulling the #blind card, but DriveThruRPG has repeatedly been told they have accessibility issues and yet they just don't seem to care. They just continue to either give the excuse of we're working on a redesign of the website (been happeneing for years now apparently and they can't spare anyone to look at anything else), or they simply just don't care. That latter being mostly involved with the watermark they put on their pdf's. It completely destroys the accessibility that the publisher works so hard on and yet they are unwilling to even consider examining it, nor do they seem inclined to inform the publisher's that it is a known issue and that it messing up #accessibility. I know a couple of publishers that I have spoken to directly that admitted they didn't know this fact and they went through a whole testing and debugging process to make their pdf fully accessible with testers. I get that something are going to require #DRM, personally I think that is an entirely different stupid rabbit hole, but if it is required and I'm going to pay money for it, then you should at least take my concerns seriously and find some sort of accomodation. Dealing with a #PDF is already kind of a pain unless they are created just right, adding in the classic layout of 2 columns that most #TTRPG like to use makes that even worse, but then #DriveThruRPG goes and adds this watermark that destroys the whole thing, on top of that a lot of publishers haven't really even bothered to make the #PDF properly accessible to begin with so you have things like bad reading order, tables that are actually images that according to the screen reader perspective are only partly in a table format, then some mishmash of text with hardly any spaces and no line breaks, and worst of all the PDF that you open and find that While there are line breaks and even paragraphs breask there don't seem to be any spaces and the creators of the document thought it would be a grand idea to use multiple different font styles of multiple different sizes in some weird ass layout that inserts things like graphics, tables, notes, and various other elements right in the middle of the text where it only makes sense to a sighted person reading the page. Okay, rant over. I just wish someone would do something, but I guess I'm just too small a demographic for the bigwigs of #TTRPG to listen to.
@SJohnRoss You are awesome. I would love for the standard to fall to epub, even if there is a problem with tables. Laying a table out with vertical bars and underscores to create a makeshift border system would still be better IMO than some of the crap I've had to deal with when looking at PDF's. I have literally had to go through thousands of pages of pdf's and extract the text to another format because when I read the page the second column gets read before the first with no recognizable breakage to show where the two shoudl be separated. Basically like so, but with a whole page of the book
Hello, I'm the second half of the page and I'm goign to tell you about this...(continued on next page)
Hi, I'm the beginning of this same page but as you can see I'm on the bottom. I make no sense but I now refer you to my friend up there.
Accessible Youtube Downloader Pro, a free program for windows that lets you search youtube and watch videos, add videos to a favorite list, download the video or audio of a video, there is no ads when watching videos, plus much more! And the program is fully accessible and best of all, free! Robin Christopherson did a demo on the Double Tap podcast. Here is the link to the page where you can download it. https://ddt.one/en/software/accessible-youtube-downloader-pro. @Robin@doubletap#Youtube#Program#Windows#Accessible#ScreenReader#Blind