Please forgive me if this is 'off topic,' the actual  page is void of any useful guidelines.  I'm new to Blender and started trying to make a model that is more complex than a simple object. Take any normal model, for example a car. Is it normal to make a car in one file that consists of a bunch of different non-connected meshes?  Most tutorials I have found make one giant connected object that is (in some way) connected to every part of the whole model.   My mind wants to separate the parts, like the wheels wouldn't be 'connected' to the body. I feel like this would make texturing and UV mapping easier, but nobody seems to do this. Texturing different parts of a single giant mesh is challenging for me and I wanted to know if it is bad practice to create lots of 'pieces' to a single model.
Is there any benefit of creating model in one piece or I can create separate pieces and just overlap them to create a visually joint part.  For example, the below image were made from two parts 1. Blade 2. Spinner  Is there any benefit to model them (e.g. extrude from the spinner) or it is actually ok to have them separated since visually I can achieve the same effect (See picture 2)
"Protect Questions" privilege page has confusing wording The wording on the  privilege page is confusing and would benefit from being clarified. See these questions on  and . Suggested wording from  is to replace this:  Which questions can be protected? Any question, even a deleted question, can be protected and unprotected, subject to the following restrictions:  The question must be at least a day old A user can unprotect any protected question   with the following:  Which questions can be protected? Any question at least a day old, even a deleted question, can be protected and unprotected. A user with the privilege can unprotect any protected question. Quotient rings of Gaussian integers I used this isomorphism today but now I'm having trouble justifying it. The norm function isn't additive so I can't come up with a ring isomorphism to prove the following:     For any $\,a+bi\in\Bbb Z[i],\,\gcd(a,b)=1$, we have a ring isomorphism   $$\Bbb Z[i]/\langle a+bi\rangle\,\cong\Bbb Z/(a^2+b^2)\Bbb Z=:\Bbb Z_{a^2+b^2}.$$   Could someone show me an isomorphism between these rings to prove this? How should we handle downvote retaliation? I have a situation where I'm trying to figure out what the right thing to do is on SO.    I see a question.  I answer the question.  I see there are a couple other answers.  One answers the question well, though with less explanation than my answer.  The other answer seems both wrong and irrelevant to the question (doesn't answer the question at all).  I comment to that effect.  The "wrong" part is edited out, but the author of the answer doesn't respond to how their answer actually answers the question.  In fact, they seem offended that I don't "get" it.  After giving them several chances to explain how their answer is relevant to the question and seeing their attitude, I decide to downvote their answer as I don't see how it addresses the question at all and the author won't explain.  They retaliate and downvote my answer and admit in their comments that their downvote of my answer has nothing to do with the content of my answer and only because they don't like me disputing their answer.  Did I do the right thing by downvoting their answer?  Do I just have to live with their downvote retaliation?  Anything I should have done differently?  I also have no way of knowing this for sure, but the next question I answered was upvoted, then downvoted so perhaps this same person is stalking my answers and downvoting other answers of mine too with no comment.  As long as this doesn't continue, I'm not losing sleep over a couple downvotes, but I do wonder if I should have done anything differently.  Followup Later After I Posted This Question: After thinking about it for a little while, the person who disagreed with me decided to delete their post.  So, eventually the message did get through to them.  I don't know if they rescinded their downvote or not (or if they even could). Is it possible to add a user and restrict him to run special programs? For example after this user logs in, he can only open Firefox to use Internet and no other programs can be run by this user. For example in a terminal, commands will not be accessible when you delete some environment variables like $HOME. But is it possible to avoid running programs in a graphical shell, like Gnome? If yes, how? I'd like to download automatically tons of papers listed on .bib file so I'm trying to find a way to facilitate the process by, e.g. I import or input to a tool a certain .bib file which contains a list of literature, the output is the literature's .pdf file. Any idea to do so? Slower download speed compared to Windows on Ubuntu 20.04 \footnote breaks @-constructs in \index Should I always use a comma after "e.g." or "i.e."? Coefficient changes sign when adding a variable in logistic regression I bought a used iPhone 4.  The previous owner re-set the phone, but did not remove the device from their iCloud.  It is asking me for their iCloud information when I try to set-up the phone.  I don't have contact with the previous owner anymore.  Is there a way to remove the device from their iCloud so I can use a new one? How to revert to GNOME Classic Desktop? Why does the classical path give the dominant contribution in the path integral? Number of ordered pairs $(a,b)$ such that $ab \le 3600$ Find number of ordered pairs $(a,b)$ such that $ab\le 3600$ and $a,b \in N$  My attempt : Well, all $a,b \leqslant 60$ are solutions. These 3600 solutions. After that I have no idea how to count the number of remaining solutions...   I have a feeling that my approach is $very$ bad. But I had to give as it would be marked as off-topic. Biblatex authoryear dashed for entries with no year I'm using biblatex authoryear and have multiple entries of the same author that do not have a year. When I cite them there are letters shown to distinguish them:   But in the bibliography those letters are not shown and you can only distinguish them by the title. Is it possible to show the letters in the bibliography, too?  \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents}{bib.bib} @BOOK{bar1,   title = {Text One},   year = {},   author = {Firstname Lastname}, } @BOOK{bar2,   title = {Text Two},   year = {},   author = {Firstname Lastname}, } \end{filecontents}  \usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear-icomp, dashed=true]{biblatex} \addbibresource{bib.bib}  \begin{document}  \cite{bar1} and \cite{bar2}  \printbibliography \end{document} Man/Tree Symbiosis It was an old book... I'm pretty sure it was a book, and pre-1990's I think. The basic plot was this man somehow interacted with this tree, and as a result he became a carrier of the tree's 'seed'. They were in a symbiotic relationship: the man got a much longer life, more strength, etc.; but when he did die the tree would grow up from his body. $ \int_{0}^{ \infty} \int_{0}^{ \infty} \frac { e^{-(x+y)}}{x+y} dx dy $ Question : The integral   $$ \int_{0}^{ \infty} \int_{0}^{ \infty} \frac { e^{-(x+y)}}{x+y} \mathop{dx}\mathop{dy} $$  is   (a) infinite   (b) finite but can not be evaluated in closed form   (c) 1  (d) 2 .  I tried substituting $u=x+y$ and $v=y$ that led me no where . I'm not even sure about convergence of integral .Any help would be greatly appreciated . how to fix the width of the columns in the latex table? I have a table with long heading names. I want to fix the the width of the columns. When I do so the text flows out if the column. Any suggestion about fixing it.  Here is the example   \begin{table*}[ht] \begin{tabular}{|l|r|r|r|r|r|} \hline Image &amp; Score  &amp; here is a lot of text &amp; agian a lot &amp;a lot and a lot&amp; and the same here\\ \hline a \(left\) &amp; 1 &amp; 1 &amp; 1 &amp; 1 &amp; 1  \\ \hline b \(right\)&amp;  1 &amp;1 &amp; 1 &amp; 1 &amp; 1  \\  \end{tabular}  \end{table*} Chirp Transform and Convolution I was reading about the discrete fourier transform from the CLR algorithms book and I came upon an exercise whose hint confuses me. The exercise reads as follows:  The chirp transform of a vector $a=(a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_n)$ is a vector $y=(y_0,y_1,\ldots,y_n)$, where $y_k=\sum_{j=0}^{n-1}a_j (z^{k})^j$ and $z$ is any complex number. The DFT is therefore a special case of the chirp transform, obtained by taking $z=\omega_n$. Prove that the chirp transform can be evaluated in time $O(n\lg n)$ for any complex number $z$. (Hint: use the equation $$y_k = z^{k^2/2}\sum_{j=0}^{n-1}(a_j z^{j^2/2})(z^{-(k-j)^2/2})$$ to view the chirp transform as a convolution.  My question is about what is a convolution. I am familiar with taking two vectors $a=(a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_n)$ and $b=(b_0,b_1,\ldots,b_n)$ and forming the convolution $c=(c_0,c_1,\ldots,c_n)$ where $c_k = \sum_{j=0}^k a_j b_{k-j}$. Here the index of $j$ runs from $0$ to $k$ unlike in the hint given above where the index runs from $0$ to $n-1$. In what sense is the hint above a convolution? Is it safe to disable System Integrity Protection? While using OS X El Capitan 10.11.x, is it safe to disable System Integrity Protection? There are all these additional apps that modify folders and the dock that I want to install but you have to disable rootless first.  Good idea or bad idea? Show that $(l_1)^* \cong l_{\infty}$