I'm on a Linux Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS System.  As the title states I was unable to find any precise documentation how to build blender as Python Module for uses in scripts.  If anyone can help me I'd really appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.
I have seen this question now many times and every question here and on other forum points to  experimental tutorial by . Now sadly a lot of answers are invalid right now because this central link is down. I couldn't find anything by Googling so if anybody has a fork of the tutorial or a second source that would be great? The link can't be gone for too long, I saw an answer with it 4 months ago.  The only other thing I have found is , but it also references the now missing tutorial. Any ideas how to find it?
I have realized that to pronounce the plural form of words ending in -th, we have to drop the letter "h". e.g. Months is pronounced /mʌnts/. But I have never seen this point mentioned in any context. I just want to make sure that this rule is correct and can be always applied. How to remove "phone style" Gnome swipe to unlock Does python optimize modules when they are imported multiple times? If a large module is loaded by some submodule of your code, is there any benefit to referencing the module from that namespace instead of importing it again?  For example: I have a module MyLib, which makes extensive use of ReallyBigLib. If I have code that imports MyLib, should I dig the module out like so  import MyLib ReallyBigLib = MyLib.SomeModule.ReallyBigLib   or just  import MyLib import ReallyBigLib Removing unnecessary vertices? I have over sampled polygons that I need to simplify, without changing the shape. basically, I want to reduce the number of vertices, by eliminating the ones that are useless and have the polygons represented with the significant vertices only. I used to do that with ET GeoWizards Plug-in, but I don't have a license anymore. My table has 500.000 features, water polygons.   Any ideas? The new Top-Bar does not show reputation changes from Area 51. In a multiple linear regression, why is it possible to have a highly significant F statistic (p&lt;.001) but have very high p-values on all the regressor's t tests?  In my model, there are 10 regressors. One has a p-value of 0.1 and the rest are above 0.9    For dealing with this problem see the . Ban "What have you tried?" links in comments Recently on SO, I've been noticing a lot of link-only comments on (admittedly bad) questions.  The typical comment looks like this:        Now, my first instinct is to flag the comment as "not constructive" or "too chatty", but the fact is that the blog post linked to is actually good advice.  On the whole though, the way it is being wielded like a blunt instrument comes across as—at best—lazy arrogance in my opinion and is not adding anything to the network.  Can we ban "What have you tried?" links like we did with ?  An example:    To be clear, I'm not proposing that we stop people asking for clarification or expecting askers to explain themselves properly. I just don't think comments like these are particularly constructive. There is this puzzling thing that is called : paradoxically, warm (35°C) water freezes faster than cold (5°C) water.  As a physisist, I've been asked about it several times already. And I have no definite answer to that, apart from the standard: "there are many things that can influence it".  So, does anyone knows about the status or progress on that effect? Any recent reviews, publications or other references? Destroying a spammer does not delete their comments Is WD-40 really bad to apply on bikes? I was told so but still see people doing that.   Also I saw WD-40 launching their new products of bike lubricant and degreaser. Did anybody try those? The temperature of an electron Does an electron have a temperature, if so, what is it?  Imagine an electron (Ke = 1 eV) in a tube at room temperature (300 K)    what is its temperature?   Imagine now same electron in space (3 K) with same Ke, is it any different from the other?  What is the influence of external temperature on electrons?  Do those electrons have electric energy, or do we have such energy only when the electron hits something and discharges its Ke? We encountered a Vampire Spawn in the 10-foot-high basement of an old church. The first strike was mine, after which the creature attacked my ally and retreated onto the ceiling as the thundering roar of my Booming Blade punished its retreat. Still inexperienced and unsure about my reach, after a short consultation with my mind, I decided to spend my turn switching to my trusty crossbow and make some distance.  However this turned out to be a mistake, since right after, the creature was in in my face trying to gouge out my eyes. Due to my nimbleness I managed to avoid its attacks. Regretting my earlier choice to change weapons I was left with the options to switch weapons and miss another turn, attack with disadvantage, or use my crossbow as an improvised melee weapon and trust in Booming Blade to hold the enemy in place after I disengaged.  Perhaps I should have switched weapons, but I decided that 1d4 (improvised weapon) + 1 (magic ring) + 1d8 (booming blade) was good enough. I missed.  On the plus side, it was my crossbow's sneak attack assisted bolt that finally slayed the Vampire by piercing its heart.    In this situation, would it have been possible to just attack upwards instead of changing to the crossbow?  In session, this was something to be looked up later and decided against, but I haven't found any rules on attacking in 3D.  With me being more than 5 feet in height and my melee attack range considered to be 5 feet, I should have been able to reach the ceiling itself, not to mention the Vampire Spawn hanging from it.    As for exact measurements (read this part only if you enjoy pointlessly over-analyzing things):  My character is 5 feet 6 inches/5.5 feet, which gives an  (for a human, my character is a Kenku), . This should give me a height of 8.3 to 8.9 feet from standing statically.    Testing it in real life, my estimated and standing reach match to less than 0.2 inches of the estimation on the site and I'm just shy of reaching my ceiling standing statically. As a test I tried moving as if I was attacking my ceiling and based on where I could feel my hand touch the ceiling, the length of my fingers and how much distance I lacked to reach my ceiling, I estimate about 0.4 feet in additional height. Considering that I'm taller than my character, let's say that gives 0.3 feet, increasing the height to 8.6 - 9.2 feet and that's still without changing how you hold the handle of the sword. In addition, just lying on the ground, my torso and legs measure about 0.6 feet.  Because my Kenku isn't a human, only a humanoid, it's impossible to estimate arm length which influences standing reach, however, considering that birds usually have a high wingspan and long legs, I think it's reasonable to assume that the arms should be as long, if not longer than, a human's.    So that would require the Vampire Spawn to be flat against the ceiling without any parts hanging down more than 0.2 to 0.8 feet for it to be outside of my reach. I consider that unlikely.  What are the actual rules for this type of scenario, or how do you handle it in your group? Should I be allowed to melee attack an enemy that's on a ceiling or low in the air? Run a command in a shell and keep running the command when you close the session I am using Putty to connect to a remote server. What I want to know is if there is any way to write my commands and allow them to keep running after I close the session with Putty. The reason for this is that I do not want to keep the computer ON all the time. Is there any way to do this?.  Update with the solution  For my question as it is presented the best solution is use one of the commands provided such as nohup, because you do not have to install any additional software. But if you are in the same problem use screen, install it and use it. It is amazing.  I have selected the answer of Norman Ramsey as favourite because propose several solutions using commands and screen. But please check the other answers specially the one of PEZ, then you get an insight of what screen is able todo. How to make program autostart only in GNOME I use both GNOME and KDE SC. In GNOME, I use Docky but I do not use it with KDE. So, I would like Docky to start up only when I login into GNOME not KDE. In KDE, there is an option to make a program autostart only in KDE. But I cannot find any such option in GNOME.    How can I do this?    Thanks in advance. Correct position of "only" Strange arrow mark with TikZ edge and anchors. When I draw an edge between two nodes with anchors and globally set option [-&gt;], I get an additional arrow tip symbol at the beginning of the last edge in the path. For example in  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz}  \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}     \node (A) at (0,0) {$A$};     \node (B) at (1,0) {$B$};      \draw[-&gt;] (A.north east) edge (B.north west);      \draw (A.south east) edge[-&gt;] (B.south west); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   the first \draw command produces incorrect output, while the second produces correct output:    Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in TikZ? Arriving at a different port of entry in the same state in USA? I am a girl in my early twenties traveling to USA from India and in my visa application I have provided the contact address for a relative in San Francisco, and their invitation letter. I would like to visit LA first. Will I face problems during immigration if I land in LA (with an immediate on wards ticket to SF)? I dont plan to get on the flight from LA to SFO.  Initially I was planning to fly to SFO from India and then fly to LA immediately after completing immigration at SFO airport. Why does network ad URL from SO to history.SE mention Ask Ubuntu? Today, I was on Stack Overflow when I noticed an interesting ad pointing to history.SE (actual square ad, not just Hot Network Questions).  The link in the ad was:    which resolves to:  https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/23946/what-were-greek-and-roman-sails-made-from?utm_medium=ad&amp;utm_source=http-askubuntu-com-questions-471178-converting-hundreds-of-jpg-to-pdf-using-te&amp;utm_campaign=history.stackexchange.com-promo&amp;utm_content=23946  (link form for conveniece: )  The confusing part os the URL is: utm_source=http-askubuntu-com-questions-471178-converting-hundreds-of-jpg-to-pdf-using-te. The ad is from SO to history.SE, it doesn't have anything to do with Ask Ubuntu, so why does it appear in the URL? Is this a bug?  EDIT: Okay, managed to trigger it again: the page  contains this ad:    The link of the ad is:    which resolves to:  http://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1556/how-to-react-to-unhelpful-contributions-to-otherwise-unnoticed-projects?utm_medium=ad&amp;utm_source=http-sharepoint-stackexchange-com-questions-16925-why-am-i-getting-server-erro&amp;utm_campaign=opensource.stackexchange.com-promo&amp;utm_content=1556  incorrectly referencing an unrelated sharepoint.SE question. Passing named arguments to shell scripts Is there any easy way to pass (receive) named parameters to a shell script?  For example,   my_script -p_out '/some/path' -arg_1 '5'   And inside my_script.sh receive them as:  # I believe this notation does not work, but is there anything close to it? p_out=$ARGUMENTS['p_out'] arg1=$ARGUMENTS['arg_1']  printf "The Argument p_out is %s" "$p_out" printf "The Argument arg_1 is %s" "$arg1"   Is this possible in Bash or Zsh? Why is a different dll produced after a clean build, with no code changes? When I do a clean build my C# project, the produced dll is different then the previously built one (which I saved separately). No code changes were made, just clean and rebuild.   Diff shows some bytes in the DLL have changes -- few near the beginning and few near the end, but I can't figure out what these represent. Does anybody have insights on why this is happening and how to prevent it?   This is using Visual Studio 2005 / WinForms.  Update: Not using automatic version incrementing, or signing the assembly. If it's a timestamp of some sort, how to I prevent VS from writing it?   Update: After looking in Ildasm/diff, it seems like the following items are different:   Two bytes in PE header at the start of the file. &lt;PrivateImplementationDetails&gt;{guid} section  Cryptic part of the string table near the end (wonder why, I did not change the strings) Parts of assembly info at the end of file.   No idea how to eliminate any of these, if at all possible...