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A great opportunity to update the part of my API code that deals with Slack to make it handle errors more gracefully!

Since blender is so easy to write add-ons for with their Python API, I'd be surprised if there wasn't already community effort around this.

I don't know much about CAD requirements, but it looks like there are a few tools available already and efforts underway:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blender+cad+add-on

Bonus points for linking to jwz from hacker news!

Such a staged drama by Epic Games. They even had a video ready to go!

GIMP should do a Blender 2.8 and do a major focused release on improving UX

You should do this in general public situations where possible too: Got great service at a restaurant or store? Ask to talk to their manager. When their manager comes over, complement the person who was awesome!

My wife does this regularly and it's always amazing to see people's faces drop at the first manager request, then shine when they realize what's going on :)

Smart thing to do is to use this as a content recommendation service! Or netflix can improve their catalog by knowing what content people are going off-service for.... Nevermind enforcement, this is a huge data source for marketing purposes... Wait a minute :(

They specifically mentioned Rosetta 2 would work for all binaries, including plugins.

Thanks! I only tried using the original which wasn't updated for blender 2.8.

Has this been updated for 2.8? I've used this when learning Blender scripting and the script had a bunch of issues with the procedural materials because of API changes.

That being said Blender is some heroic software.

You should go get some funding - your pitch is already written!

This is so superbad

Yep, thanks.

If you're trying to store single GB documents in couch, you're doing it wrong... Unless those are binaries you can usually fragment data logically across many documents, then write custom views to aggregate however you need to.

Updates on huge docs would be painful!

Partitioned dbs are supposed to allow you to query more cheaply, haven't implemented those yet.

CouchDB is awesome, full stop.

While it's missing some popularity from MongoDB and having wide adoption of things like mongoose in lots of open source CMS-type projects, it wins for the (i believe) unique take on map / reduce and writing custom javascript view functions that run on every document, letting you really customize the way you can query slice and access parts of your data...

Example: I'm building a document analysis app that does topic + keyword frequency vectorization of a corpus of documents, only a few thousand for now.

I end up with a bunch of documents that have "text": "here is my document text..." and "vector": [ array of floating point values ...].

What I can do with couchdb is store that 20d vector and emit integers of it as a query key:

    var intVectors = doc.vector.map(function(val){
      return Math.floor(val)
    })
    emit(intVectors, 1);

Then I can match an input document's vector (calculated the same as corpus documents), calculate a 'range' of those vectors, pass it as start and end keys, and super quickly get a result from the database of 'here are documents that have vectors similar to your input'...

Super fun, quick and flexible to work with!

Came here looking for gaming applications of this. Blender is in my game dev workflow already for terrain generation!

Cool, thanks for that

Can you share how you're measuring GPU power draw? I have just migrated to a 16" MBP with the AMD chip, and also use an external display some of the time. Have noticed the fan noise and heat but it hasn't been a problem yet.

Thanks! Awesome idea. My son and I have started our own "game studio" for iOS, and I've submitted our first game, Barrel of DNA: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/barrel-of-dna/id1460483070?ls=...

One of our main design principles is to charge a fair price and never do any ads, tracking or IAP's. The idea is to be contrary to the vast swathes of crap that is out there...

I would love to hear some news about how the financials for Apple Arcade break down for game developers. I've got an awesome game in development and it's tempting to apply to include it in Arcade, but typically Apple they are super-light on details.

Prior art from HST's 1971 campaign for sheriff of Aspen, CO:

"Rip up all city streets with jackhammers" and "sod the streets at once ... All public movement would be by foot and a fleet of bicycles, maintained by the city police force."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen

You get used to it - UI is slightly different in some areas, but it lacks for no major features and performance is good, like firefox in general.

I've found it's extremely valuable to be developing sites in Firefox using the dev tools simply to help catch issues that the rest of the team ignores as they're all stuck on Chrome. Fights monocultures by default!

Interesting then that this release enables meta viewport support in responsive design mode - from the link: "Firefox now supports simulation of meta viewport in Responsive Design Mode."

Hilarious - my family and I joke and call the inevitable massive chevy suburbans "Mom Tanks"

How to use AI to recognize AI snake oil?

Greetings to halo MD fans! Unfortunately the original Mac Halo binary that MD wraps is itself 32 bit, but some hope lies in a project called wineskin. Look up the Porting Team discord or atomical’s Halo MD discord for some discussion...

If you're on macos, you want https://mmattozzi.github.io/cocoa-rest-client/

One thing that they do fantastically well is the repair program, which is also good for the world instead of their bottom line.

Even years-old winter coats you can bring into a store and they will send it off for repair, instead of you having to buy a new one.

Please use the API. DO not scrape wikipedia via the website.

What you're looking for is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export

You can start with the index page and collect all the page titles you're interested in, and then use the special:export API to download XML (probably other formats too) of all those pages.