I'm using Blender 2.79. I've looked at a number of possible answers on this, but none seem to help solve the problem. I'm getting these weird black specs in renders when using blender render. I've checked for Z-fighting or duplicate geometry but there is none. These are extremely simple, low poly models that have been duplicated and only use one basic color as it's material. There are only two unique models here, and the rest are just simple rotated duplicates of each-other.    I have been able to get the issue be less noticeable by changing world -> gather: from raytrace to approximate. However I would like to know what's going on so that I can keep the setting on raytrace. As you can see below the same two trees have an odd speckled look to it, which doesn't make sense because there is just a basic color as it's material/texture. This does not show up using cycles render. (Again, I do want to use blender render, so looking for a fix)
I was following  on creating a watch and noticed that when I rendered the watch, some pieces were messed up.  I'm new to 3D modeling and I've just learned Blender, I can't explain it well, so here's a picture:    Other examples:     I don't know if it's a problem with my World texture, the object, or the object's texture/material, so I can't even guess how to fix it. What causes this? Is it possible to fix it?
How to determine which app is causing vibration? I have a Moto G6 Play that vibrates like it is getting notifications but it's not. The vibration is inconsistent and seems random so I would like to know if there is a logcat or something I can run to log which app is calling the vibration so that I can shut it off? The same thing happens on my wife's phone, same model, and it does my head in. The device is running Android 9. Would you be weightless at the center of the Earth? If you could travel to the center of the Earth (or any planet), would you be weightless there? How do I kill entities at y=65? Potions can survive at y=65  One potion was thrown into the void, but instead of being killed, it just lingered there.  Any ideas to kill it? I can't just run /kill @e[type=!player,tag=test1]  (yes, the tag of the entity is indeed test1 ) Same mesh with different colors I'm trying to figure out how to use "not only... but also" properly. Basically, my goal is to combine two clauses by using "not only".  For negations, I've figured out two styles that both sound correct:   He knew that if he fractures his finger, not only would he not be able to compete in the water polo tournament, he would not be able to take the SAT on Monday, either. He knew that if he fractures his finger, neither would he be able to compete in the water polo tournament, nor would he be able to take the SAT on Monday.   However, I don't know how to form a sentence that does not include a negation while using "not only". Here are a few possibilities that I've considered:   Thanks to his remarkable performance on the SAT, not only was he accepted into Harvard, but he was also given a full scholarship. Thanks to his remarkable performance on the SAT, not only was he accepted into Harvard, but he was given a full scholarship. Thanks to his remarkable performance on the SAT, not only was he accepted into Harvard, he was given a full scholarship. Thanks to his remarkable performance on the SAT, not only was he accepted into Harvard, he was also given a full scholarship.   In those four possibilities, I'm varying the usage of "but" and "also" in the last clause.  What is the proper usage of "not only"? Reading the reviews of the  on Google Play,  said that since Chrome supports HTML5, he had managed to persuade the BBC iPlayer website to play him streams meant for iPad/iPhone devices by spoofing an IOS user agent string on his Nexus 7.  How might I go about getting the same thing to work myself?  I have looked at  and  but both seem to concentrate on the Dolphin browser. Also, please mention if a solution will require me to root my Nexus-7.  Incidentally, I also tried using  with Firefox, but although Firefox supports HTML5 and the iPlayer website shows pages without either install flash or use external app messages, it still won't play the streams (it just sits swirling its progress wheel), hence looking for a solution for Chrome. Linear regression with non-symmetric cost function? I want to predict some value $Y(x)$ and I am trying to get some prediction $\hat Y(x)$ that optimizes between being as low as possible, but still being larger than $Y(x)$. In other words: $$\text{cost}\left\{ Y(x) \gtrsim \hat Y(x) \right\}  &gt;&gt; \text{cost}\left\{ \hat Y(x) \gtrsim Y(x) \right\}  $$  I think a simple linear regression should do totally fine. So I somewhat know how to implement this manually, but I guess I'm not the first one with this kind of problem. Are there any packages/libraries (preferably python) out there doing what I want to do? What's the keyword I need to look for?  What if I knew a function $Y_0(x) &gt; 0$ where $Y(x) &gt; Y_0(x)$. What's the best way to implement these restrictions? The 'nofollow' attribute is set in user profile website link... why? I understand that from an SEO perspective it is beneficial for Stack Overflow to have the  on the website link for user profiles. Especially if people will just create an account to get a backlink. What I think however, is that contributing members of Stack Overflow should be awarded with this backlink. I think that if someone contributes and has some decent reputation, then they should not have nofollow set on their website link in their user profile. Considering the amount of users that are backlinking to Stack Overflow with flair, I really think that Stack Overflow should hook us up with some search engine love. I uninstalled and re-installed steam. I didn't uninstall my games, and they still exist on my hard drive (I checked).  I have an SSD and a HDD, and to save space I install programs (including steam) to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam drive (SSD) and games to D:\Games\SteamApps (HDD). How to I let steam know the programs are installed there? For files within a specific folder, I would like vim to never touch "modified" timestamp at all.  The background is that I use  for blogging, which uses plain text files in ~/bloxsom as source of all articles.  The article date (and therefore order of appearence) is based on modification date of the text file. I don't want article pop up like if it's new whenever I just fix a typo. (I do lots of them... :D)  So far, vim changes timestamp and the original stamp is lost forever.  This is OK and I want to keep it that way for most of files on the system.  But I don't want that for the blog files - I can always touch the file if I need.  Any ideas on how to tweak vim into this behavior? Installing Steam on Debian I have ran into some issues when it went down to install Steam on Debian. The console as well as Apper comes up with missing dependencies  and the package isn't going to install. Why Inox Steel doesn't interact with magnets? My dad has a HUGE magnet on his workshop.  I love magnets, and when I saw it, I asked him what it was for.  His reply was: "I don't know why, but inox steel bolts don't get attracted to it, so I use it to identify them."  Thus I got curious, why a magnet don't attract  bolts? Steel, even if a inox variation is still mostly iron, no? Floating point comparison Disable or prevent multitouch in Activity Stop iCloud automatic download to harddrive How do I stop iCloud from downloading files to my hard drive? I opened up a folder and it immediately started downloading all contents Relationship between Partial Harmonic Sum and Logarithm. Identify $P(2014)$ if $P(i)=1/i$ for every positive integer $1\le i\le2013$ Two list-boxes, side by side, one with available items, the other with selected items, with arrows in between to move items back and forth. How to customize the package editor interface? Let's say you want to save a bunch of files somewhere, for instance in BLOBs. Let's say you want to dish these files out via a web page and have the client automatically open the correct application/viewer.  Assumption: The browser figures out which application/viewer to use by the mime-type (content-type?) header in the HTTP response.  Based on that assumption, in addition to the bytes of the file, you also want to save the MIME type.  How would you find the MIME type of a file? I'm currently on a Mac, but this should also work on Windows.   Does the browser add this information when posting the file to the web page?  Is there a neat python library for finding this information? A WebService or (even better) a downloadable database?