I've try make a kendama animation, when make the rope I want the endpoints of this rope to connect two meshes while following their movement and swinging looks realistic. I think use bone wasn't a good choice, pls tell me how would you do this animation if it were you, thanks!
I'm trying to simulate a rope (that later might get pulled on the ends*) that interacts with some obstacles. So far I created a plane as the floor and a cube as an obstacle, and activated "collision" in the physics menu for both of them.   *(In the end the goal is simulating a .)  For modelling the rope, I tried using a long cylinder with enough subdivisions, and activate "cloth" in the physics menu. This resulted in the cylinder collapsing like a sleeve of a sweater, but I would like the cross section to remain roughly circular. Is there a way to directly avoid this?   Another approach I tried now was just using a a line made up of vertices and edges (with the idea of later adding modifiers to give it a thickness), but this just fell through all the collision objects as it has no faces. Is there good way to do this?
I have 4GB RAM. When I open Firefox, IntelliJ IDEA or VS Code and some other application my memory is about used up thus my machine hangs and I can't do anything. I can't even close any applications.    Date and time are shown in the top bar so that I can view it any time without any thing typing.   If I would view memory status in this way without typing anything then I can make a decision whether to open an application or whether this application may put my machine in hanging state or not.    Is it possible in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS? I am trying to prove the existence of the square root of $2$.  I have some steps with a very vague explanation and I would like to clarify.  The proof: Let  $$S=\{x\in\mathbb R\mid x\geqslant 0 \text{ and } x^2&lt;2\}.$$  I understand the proof of LUB, ∝   and so I am at the step where $\alpha^2=2$.  I know that we are to prove by contradiction so we state let $\alpha^2 &lt;2$ and $\alpha^2 &gt;2$.  Now my instructor wants us to use the Archimedean Axiom $1/n = \varepsilon$.    $(\alpha^2 + 1/n)^2$  then what..... I've been learning C#, and I'm trying to understand lambdas.  In this sample below, it prints out 10 ten times.  class Program {     delegate void Action();     static void Main(string[] args)     {         List&lt;Action&gt; actions = new List&lt;Action&gt;();          for (int i = 0; i &lt; 10; ++i )             actions.Add(()=&gt;Console.WriteLine(i));          foreach (Action a in actions)             a();     } }   Obviously, the generated class behind the lambda is storing a reference or pointer to the int i variable, and is assigning a new value to the same reference every time the loop iterates.  Is there a way to force the lamda to grab a copy instead, like the C++0x syntax  [&amp;](){ ... } // Capture by reference   vs.  [=](){ ... } // Capture copies I want to delete the record type which is default to the some profiles NB: Nvidia has released an official fix; please see ,  and/or .  Upon waking up Ubuntu 16.04 from Suspend, the following graphical glitches appear around all windows, context menus, and similar:      This is currently known to affect the following NVIDIA cards running the proprietary drivers:  NVIDIA GeForce 610M, driver version 375.39, 340.102 NVIDIA GT 630M, driver version 375.39 NVIDIA GTX 650, driver version 375.39 NVIDIA GT 740M, driver version 378.13 NVIDIA GTX 745, unknown driver version NVIDIA GTX 850M, driver version 375.39, 378.13 NVIDIA GT 940M, driver version 375.39 NVIDIA GTX 950M, unknown driver version NVIDIA GTX 960M, driver version 378.13 NVIDIA GTX 970, driver version 375.39 NVIDIA GTX 970M, driver version 375.39 NVIDIA GTX 980 TI, unknown driver version NVIDIA GTX 1060, driver version 375.26, 375.39, 378.09 NVIDIA GTX 1070, driver version 378.09  The above above list has been sourced from reports from other users here on AU,  thread, and  thread. NB: This is be no means an exclusive list. It probably effects nearly all Nvidia cards.  Furthermore, this issue has been replicated on a clean install where the only change was a software update and the installation of the latest NVIDIA drivers.  What is going on, and how can it be resolved? How can I search for special characters? Situation: It started out as me  for the literal string C-c in  but it ended up omitting the - sign and showing results which contained the strings C/C++ and C &amp; C++.  is an example of a post which contains that string of characters (yet fails to show up in the results).  Things I've tried:   post suggests that I can use the undocumented code: operator, but when I do that, it just wraps the whole term in double quotes like .  As @terdon in Unix &amp; Linux chat has , using this  does yield some relevant results, but it doesn't show me  that is supposed to be there. edit: It appears that the Symbolhound query no longer returns that result.  Finally,  says that you can search for literal characters, but as you can see:    Quoted phrases are exact matches except for case-sensitivity, for example, you can search  or .  The second example (symbols) leads to 0 results.  So by now I assume that the search engine has changed (but the old documentation still lingers on this site). Is there a method for me to search for strings that include special (or is it literal?) characters? divides, not divides and cardinalities In group theory it happens very often that you want to say: "The order of $H$ divides / does not divide the order of $G$." But the length of | is then always the same:  $ |H| | |G| $ produces |H|||G|  which is not ideal at all. (The negation \nmid has just this length too.) The length of "divides" should be longer than the "cardinality length". I could use   $ |H| \big| |G|$  but then there is no good way to say "does not divide" with the same length. Also, \big| is no solution when the expression has to be used in subscripts.   I thought it was just me, but I asked other group theorists, and nobody had a solution. I hope there is one.  I am seeking a division sign which is a little longer than the usual | , allows negation (with the same length) and proportionally correct use in subscripts (also under \sum etc.). It does not look professional if the "order sign" has the same length as the "divides" sign. (And what about combinations with absolute values, norms - although personally I don't use them as often as group orders.) The additive group $\mathbb{G}_a$ over an infinite field $k$ is not a topological group An algebraic group is not necessarily a topological group, since for an algebraic group, the product map $G \times G \to G$ is continuous when $G \times G$ is given the Zariski topology, which is finer than the product topology.   So does this tell you that the additive group $\mathbb{G}_a$ over an infinite field $k$ is not a topological group? The underlying variety of $\mathbb{G}_a \times \mathbb{G}_a$ is $\mathbb{A}_k^1 \times_k \mathbb{A}_k^1 = \mathbb{A}_k^2$, whose Zariski topology is the cofinite topology, where every open set is also open in the product topology (since $\mathbb{A}_k^1$ also has the Zariski topology). How to install Gnome 3 without breaking Unity? I tried installing gnome 3 , but it broke Unity and I had to reinstall Natty from scratch.  Does anyone know if there is a way to install Gnome 3 without breaking Unity? I upgraded from 17.04 to 17.10 on a Lenovo T540p which has broken two finger touchpad scrolling and right clicking Trackpad two finger scrolling and right-click issue with Ubuntu 17.10 (i386, 64bit, GNOME 3.26.1) on a Lenovo T540p (the model with a Intel Core i5-4210M Haswell CPU etc) HTML5 Canvas to PNG File How do I print all lines of a file with duplicate values in a certain column Ubuntu installer can't find any disk on Dell XPS 13 9350 I am trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 / 15.10 on my Dell XPS 13 9350 (November 2015).  I created a bootable USB disk which boots fine but the installer and the file manager do not detect the hard drive.  What is the problem? How can I solve it? Where can the last FSTrim be seen as successful or not? (log files) I recently installed an SSD and AFAIK Ubuntu makes a weekly FSTrim on SSD's that support it.  Is there a log file of this trims? Can you change the location where windows stores its updates? On my personal home PC I want to change where windows downloads it updates to: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache(in folders with long ID numbers).  When installing Python I found that it needs an update (). The Python installer goes ahead and tries to run the update but can fail with security errors unless run as admin - I don't want to have to run as admin, especially since I am installing to a non-system access area on D:\  So my question is, can I get windows to use a different folder so that I don't need to run with full admin rights?   for example: D:\myWindowsUpdates Check ping statistics without stopping Is there a way to tell ping to show its usual termination statistics without stopping the execution?  For instance, I'd like to quickly view:  --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics --- 2410 packets transmitted, 2274 received, +27 errors, 5% packet loss, time 2412839ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26.103/48.917/639.493/52.093 ms, pipe 3   without having to stop the program, thus losing the accumulated data. How can I add an empty directory to a Git repository? How to share an encrypted storage on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in a secure way I got a 2 TB drive that I have to use with both Windows 8.1 / Windows 10 and Yosemite to OS X / OS X El Capitan and maybe even on Linux.  I need to encrypt the volume. Or rather, I want to create two partitions: a 1.7 TB encrypted and unencrypted the remaining space.  Now I use Windows BitLocker to 512bit. On Mac and Linux nothing, obviously.  What do you recommend?  I saw TrueCrypt (and I read about all the confusion created after May 2014), of VeraCrypt, of GNUPG, Disklocker to read BitLocker on Unix.  But I feel lost and without a good idea.  And if I use TrueCrypt 7.1a waiting for new solutions such as precautions to prevent memory dumps and other potential crack?  And then how should I use TrueCrypt to format the drive? In GPT? MBR? Journaled? FAT? Inequality ${n \choose k} \leq \left(\frac{en}{ k}\right)^k$ android expandablelistview how to set space between groups items