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I've had a manager take credit for my work, gaslight, and fire me when he was getting in trouble for underpreforming. I had no relationship with his bosses; I kept my nose down and…

Yes, there's some parametric things you can do in Blender. You can have a beizier curve that you can later change the facet count on... and you can use a spin modifier on a shape, …

You can use Blender for some CAD work... But it's not a solid modeler like solidworks/inventor. It doesn't have many of the precision and parametric tools. Blender's internal repre…

Doesn't Hacker News shadow ban too? When did that start?

"Merge doubles" is renamed "Merge vertices" (alt-m) > "by distance"... in the "Vertex" menu. (Though the change makes sense to me, I wish they kept an alias so people can still fin…

It bends over backwards to be discoverable for new users, but it's still a powerful 3d program with many features... an understanding of those concepts are needed to make any 3d to…

It still has the powerful tiling window system. There's no overlapping windows so you don't close windows, you combine and subdivide windows to make the tool layout you want. But n…

I'd recommend video tutorials on YouTube. There's many great ones already: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+2.8+tut... And use forums if you get stuck. https://…

People have been making 2.8 tutorials for months. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+2.8+tut...

UV editing has a tab at the top now. There's a few things to keep track of to be successful with this tool and hook up with materials, but I don't think the difficulty is much diff…

Yes, Eevee is a fast pbr renderer and can give very similar results to cycles with no effort, except there's some setup needed to do indirect lighting and reflections... and some t…

Youtube has several people frantically creating tutorials for 2.8: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+2.8+tut... 'Too hard to learn' was a legitimate concern in t…

Seems like it. Did you try this?: https://www.google.com/search?q=onenote+file+parser https://github.com/dropbox/onenote-parser

https://logz.io/blog/influxdb-vs-elasticsearch/ https://portal.influxdata.com/downloads Perhaps also consider influxdb

Exactly I wanted to hear doom soundtrack music but "doom" did not work. https://bitmidi.com/search?q=doom I had to dig more to remember the level format and search for https://bitm…

killing robots -> harvesting robots

Rituals can come before scientific knowledge, like cleaning.

Why Python? (Why code?) -What do you want to make with it? Who will that effect? How? Why browse? -How many LOC have you written in the past week on something you want to make? (..…

I'm voting up all the https://scratch.mit.edu suggestions. I was active in that community and with the developers early on. I wish I had it when I was little. You can browse projec…

I used team viewer, but not sure if you can login without exchanging numbers in the free version. There's many others. Try this list: https://alternativeto.net/software/logmein/

Right, I remember advanced 3d software fitting on a floppy. But now a simple Android app can be over 50mb. No you don't need a video on your login screen.

TIL: the optical mouse works by taking a picture of the desk surface and does Optical Flow with the previous capture to get relative position. The result reminded me of the old Log…

Nice. For dates we'd go to a library or book store, take random books and dramatically read the first, middle, and last lines. And speculate on the rest and/or make fun of it.